[单项选择]The passage suggests that by the late Colonial period the tendency to cultivate metropolitan cultural models was a cultural pattern that was ______.
A. dying out as Puritan influence began to grow
B. self-consciously and distinctively Southern
C. more characteristic of the Southern colonies than of England
D. spreading to Massachusetts and Connecticut

[单项选择]The passage suggests that by the late Colonial period the tendency to cultivate metropolitan cultural models was a cultural pattern that was ______.


A. dying out as Puritan influence began to grow
B. self-consciously and distinctively Southern
C. more characteristic of the Southern colonies than of England
D. spreading to Massachusetts and Connecticut

[单项选择]The passage suggests that


A. computers have not been very helpful in humanities study until recently.
B. computers were widely used in all kinds of literary texts very long ago.
C. computers were invented by International Business Machines Corporation.
D. computers began to be used for literary study as soon as they were invented.

[单项选择]The author suggests in the passage that _________.
A. there will certainly not be enough raw materials for the world economy in the year 2008.
B. world petrol supplies will have been exhausted by 1985
C. we need to use natural resources carefully and divide them up equally
D. to show down the economic growth in developed countries might be a possible solution to the problem

[单项选择]Which aspect of colonial printing does the passage mainly discuss
A. (Laws governing the printing industry
B. (Competition among printers
C. (Types of publications produced
D. (Advances in printing technology

[单项选择]The passage suggests that intellectuals write detective stories because ______.
A. they enjoy writing these stories
B. the stories are often in fact very instructive
C. detective stories are an accepted branch of literature
D. the creation of these stories demands considerable intelligence

[单项选择]The passage suggests that an assumption underlying Connerton's theory of dance and social memory is that
A. (A) the automatic nature of dance tends to restrict the extent to which dances can be "read"
B. (B) the value and effectiveness of dance performance lies in transmitting social memory through unconscious means
C. (C) the legitimization of most social orders stems from social memory transmitted through dance
D. (D) folklore and community history are the principal narratives dance is capable of expressing
E. (E) social structures would most likely be more conservative if dance did not transmit social memory

[单项选择]The passage suggests which of the following about the increased resistance to harmful root fungi that some Plants infected with mycorrhizal fungi seem to exhibit
A. There are at least three hypotheses that might account for the increase.
B. The plants that show increased resistance also exhibit improved nitrogen fixation.
C. Such increases may be independent of mycorrhizal infection.
D. It is unlikely that a satisfactory explanation can be found to account for the increas

[单项选择]The passage suggests that besides church music people at that time like many other things such as _______.


A. fiddle music
B. Asian music
C. jazz
D. classical music

[单项选择]The passage suggests that the principal effect of the state action limitation was to ______.

[单项选择]The passage suggests the author would most probably agree with which of the following statements about the relationship between Chinese novels written after 1949 and life in China during that period


A. The novels were slow to reflect changes in culture.
B. The novels reminded citizens of their heritage and traditions as well as pointed the way towards future possibilities.
C. The novels provided government sanctioned role models for citizens.
D. The authors presented a variety of experiences far wider than normally common to their audienc

[单项选择]The information in the passage suggests that advocates of the Headland Hypothesis discussed in the passage made which of the following errors


A. Failing to recognize the reciprocal relationship between foraging practices and the availability of carbohydrate-rich species
B. Attributing the trade relations between agriculturalists and foragers to the differences in the nutritional qualities of various rain forest food products
C. Overemphasizing the importance of carbohydrate-rich species to the diet of rain forest foragers
D. Interpreting changes in rain-forest composition to the willingness of agriculturalists to trade with foragers
E. (E) Failing to observe the role of seed-disbursal in the ecological success of the sago palm

[单项选择]The author of the passage suggests that historiographers should view history primarily as


A. a political conflict over spatial boundaries which can only be resolved through the input of historiographers
B. a chorus of conflicting voices whose dissonances cannot be resolved, but to which historiographers must listen
C. a field that complicates the assignment of geographic boundaries to the extent that such boundaries can never be resolved
D. a conflict between nations whose sovereignty historiographers have the duty to assess
E. (E) a history of conflicts over spatial demarcation which are ultimately irrelevant to the truth of history