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IV. Reading Comprehension: Choose the best answer to eachquestion.    Some people view magic chiefly as a kind of insurance to be used along withactions that actually are known to bring results. For example, hunters may use ahunting charm to fend off bad influences that may drive game away or to invokefavorable influences that will attract game to them. They actually also use theirhunting skills and knowledge of animals. The charm may give hunters the extraconfidence they need to hunt even more successfully than they would without it.    Likewise, farmers may use charms, signs, or ritualistic practices to supplementtheir farming skills by hopefully influencing the elements to favor them with asuccessful harvest, and practitioners of primitive medicine may use potions andincantations to supplement the effects of their efforts. Nevertheless, if people usemagic to bring a good harvest or to cure a patient, they may believe the magic wasresponsible despite the considerable contribution of their own efforts.   People also tend to disregard magic’s failures and to be more influenced byapparent successes. Even when magic fails, people often explain the failure withoutdoubting the power of the magic. They may say that the magician made a mistakein reciting the spell or that another magician used a more powerful spell against themagician.    Many anthropologists assert that people trust in magic because they have aneed to believe in it. People may resort to magic to assuage their fear and doubts ifthey feel they have no way of controlling the outcome of a situation.
41. From this passage, it can be inferred that ________.
(A) as a rule, magicians are more numerous in urban areas
(B) hunters and farmers generally believe in magic
(C) magic is the believer’s first line of defense against ill luck
(D) adherents of magic view it as a safeguard against calamity

參考答案

答案：D
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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