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When, in the age of automation, man searches for a worker to do the tedious, unpleasant jobs that are more or less impossible to

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问题     When, in the age of automation, man searches for a worker to do the tedious, unpleasant jobs that are more or less impossible to mechanize, he may very profitably consider the ape.
    If we tackled the problem of breeding for brains with as much enthusiasm as we devote to breeding dogs of surrealistic shapes, we could eventually produce assorted models of useful primates, ranging in size from the gorilla down to the baboon(狒狒), each adapted to a special kind of work. It is not putting too much strain on the imagination to assume that geneticists could produce a super-ape, which is able to understand some scores of words and capable of being trained for such jobs as picking fruit, clearing up the litter in parks, shining shoes, collecting garage, doing household chores and even baby-sitting, although I have known some babies I would not care to trust with a valuable ape.
    Apes could do many jobs, such as cleaning streets and the more repetitive types of agricultural work, without supervision, though they might need protection from those egregious specimens of human beings who think it amusing to tease or bully anything they consider lower on the evolutionary ladder. For other tasks, such as delivering papers and laboring on the docks, our man-ape would have to work under human overseers; and, incidentally, I would love to see the ending of the twenty-first century version of On the Waterfront in which the honest but hairy hero will drum on his chest after — literally — taking the wicked labor leader apart.
    Once a supply of nonhuman workers become available, a whole range of low IQ jobs could be thankfully given up by mankind, so its great mental and physical advantage. What is more, one of the problems which has annoyed so many fictional Utopias would be avoided: there would be none of the degradingly subhuman Epsilons of Huxley’s Brave New World to act as a permanent reproach to society, for there is a profound moral difference between breeding sub-men and super-apes, though the end products are much the same. The first would introduce a form of slavery, but the second would be a biological triumph which could benefit both men and animals.
The author’s attitude toward breeding super-apes can be summarized as______.
选项 A、neutral
B、negative
C、positive
D、prejudiced
答案C
解析 根据题序(注：题目顺序是很好的参考线索)与题干信号词breeding apes可回文定位到尾段首句Once a supply of nonhuman workers becomes available，a whole range of low IQ jobs could be thankfully given up by mankind，so it’s great mental and physical advantage(一旦获得非人类劳动力，一系列低智商的工作岗位便完全可以被人类幸运地放弃，这对精神和肉体都很有好处)，此句是本题目的“题眼”。请考生注意彼此语义的对应改写：breeding对应原文的supply和available；super—apes对应原文的nonhuman workers。鉴于作者态度题的解题思路是关注题眼信息的主观感受表达，故考生应锁定本句的作者态度提示词的thankfully(幸运地)和advantage(好处)，由此可见作者对于饲养超级猿猴的态度是“肯定的”。
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