Passage One
Many animals have an excellent sense of smell, which they use in hunting. On the other hand, their eyesight may be poor. Dogs, for example, have poor eyesight and no color vision. They see only shades of gray. But the dog’s sense of smell is extraordinary,
The kind of dog known as Alsatian has 220 million olfactory (嗅觉) cells. Man has five million. Scientists believe that the Alsatian is one million times better than man in finding out odors.
The human sense of smell, however, is really quite good. The average human being can distinguish more than 10 000 different odors.
The relationship between man and animals is close but unequal. Although (61) is true that there are a large (62) of cases of men being the victims of animals(of a man eating tiger, for example), (63) man is the master. (64) the beginning of the human race, animals have been hunted for food. (65) the increasing number of vegetarians in the world, (66) of beef, lamb and pork is (67) consumed(耗费) every day. At work and at play we (68) on animals. Motor transport may have (69) the place of the beast of burden (70) the developed world, but in India life for the farmer would be (71) without the (72) of the cow, and (73) a few third world countries depend on the don-key for transport. We (74) pets at home, and we (75) seeing the elephants play football (76) a monkey play the violin at the circus. The blind have guide dogs, the rich have guard (77) , and (78) the
A. keep
B. preserve
C. bring
D. maintain
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