Can you imagine who on earth is our human being’s most dangerous enemy -- The rats!
Men are the cleverest and most ’dangerous animals on earth. Rats come second. Men kill their enemies. They have killed millions of men since ancient times -- but rats have killed hundreds of millions of men. Rats carry diseases. Black rats carry fleas, and these fleas give men bubonic plague. Bubonic plague still kills thousands of Asians and Africans today as it killed millions of Europeans in the past until brown rats came to Europe and pushed the black rats out. There is no plague in Europe today, but brown rats carry thirty-five other diseases typhus for example. Typhus has killed 200 million people in the last 400 years. Rats are dangerous.
They not only carry diseases into men’s homes, they also take men’s food. They eat 33 million tons of grain every year. That is enough to feed 200 million people -- so men die of hunger because rats eat their
A. rats killed thousands of Asians and Africans
B. rats carry diseases on to the moon
C. rats survive the poison food
D. rats eat millions of tons of grain each year
Placing a human being behind the wheel of an automobile often has the same curios effect as cutting certain fibres in the brain.
The result in either case is more primitive behaviour. Hostile feelings are apt to be ex pressed in an aggressive way.
The same man who will step aside for a stranger at a doorway will, when behind the wheel, risk an accident trying to beat another motorist through an intersection. The importance of emotional factors in automobile accidents is gaining recognition. Doctors and other scientists have concluded that the highway death toll resembles a disease epidemic and should be investigated as such.
Dr Ross A. McFarland, associate professor of industrial Hygiene at the Harvard University School of Public Health, aid that accidents "now constitute a greater threat to the safety of large segments of the population than diseases do."
Accidents are the leading cause of death between the ages of 1 and 35. About one th
A. psychopathic behaviour
B. an epidemic
C. hostile attitudes
D. antisocial behaviour
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