[填空题]The passage in Step Three suggests that it’s a good idea to leave markers, or a sign to ______.

[填空题]The passage in Step Three suggests that it’s a good idea to leave markers, or a sign to ______.

[单项选择]Passage Three New research suggests that animals have a much higher level of brainpower than previously thought. If animals do have intelligence, how do scientists measure it Before defining animals’ intelligence, scientists defined what is not intelligence . Instinct is not intelligence. It is a skill programmed into an animal’s brain . Rote conditioning is also not intelligence. Tricks can be learned by repetition, but no real thinking is involved . Scientists believe that insight(顿悟) the ability to use tools , and communication using human language are all effective measures of the mental ability of animals. Scientists define insight as a flash of sudden understanding . When a young gorilla could not reach fruit from a tree , she noticed some boxes scattered about the lawn near the tree . She piled up the boxes , then climbed on them to reach her reward . The gorilla’s insight allowed her to solve a new problem without trial and error. The ability to use to
A. a sign of intelligence
B. a sign of instinct
C. learned through training
D. programmed in their brain at birth

[单项选择]The passage suggests that Quine’s theory differs from that of linguistic expressivism in that Quine’s theory does NOT
A. emphasize the importance of so-called "constitutive activities"
B. reject the notion that labor is the primary source of the category of meaning
C. question that the products of labor are intelligible prior to the acquisition of language
D. encourage the claim that outsiders, including researchers and laymen, can understand foreign cultures
E. embrace certain basic premises of dialectical materialism

[单项选择]The passage suggests that Bennett’s work was similar to Logan’s work in which of the following ways Ⅰ. Both Bennett’s and Logan’s books recorded a then relatively unfamiliar aspect of Afro-American history. Ⅱ. Both Bennett’s and Logan’s work were designed to appeal to a primarily academic audience. Ⅲ. Both Bennett’s and Logan’s work were pub-lished in a variety of formats.
A. (A) Ⅰ only
B. (B) Ⅲ only
C. (C) Ⅰ and Ⅱ only
D. (D) Ⅰ and Ⅲ only
E. (E) Ⅱ and Ⅲ only

[单项选择]The passage suggests that scientists consider their understanding of gamma-bursts to be
A. incomplete because they still have yet to establish a taxonomy of the various types of GHBs they have observed
B. adequate enough to redirect research toward other more perplexing aspects of black holes
C. unsurprising, given that scientists have long felt kinetic energy to play a role in the emergence of GHBs
D. disappointing because the mechanism by which GHBs become visible is still poorly understood
E. in need of confirmation through comparison with another astronomical phenomenon that involves electromagnetic bursts

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

[单项选择]The passage suggests that when jet streams interact with continents with few mountain ranges and plains, which of the following also happens
A. More "wandering" occurs in the jet stream than would probably occur over the ocean.
B. The continent in question heats and cools at a faster rate than it would without the jet stream.
C. The jet stream becomes more narrow and focused than it would be over the ocean.
D. The temperature of the jet stream is distributed more evenly than if the continent had more mountains.
E. The jet stream evinces more signs of being a thermally driven phenomenon than it does in other situations.

[单项选择]The passage suggests that the influence of communal living on pre-linguistic children can be traced to
A. the primacy of language, as opposed to labor, in establishing categories of cultural meaning
B. an experimental solution to the problems of the indeterminancy of radical translation
C. a mechanism of enculturation that exists independently of language acquisition
D. an innate grasp of language that allows children perceive social structures in linguistic categories
E. language’s close and dependent relationship with culture

[单项选择]The passage suggests that all research has proven that which of the following is true about the phenomenon of synesthesia
A. The lack of synesthetic color differences tends to hinder synesthetics in the same tasks where the presence of real color differences assists nonsynesthetes.
B. The presence of real color differences tends to assist nonsynesthetes in the same tasks where the lack of synesthetic color differences assists synesthetes.
C. The presence of synesthetic color differences tends to assist synesthetics in the same tasks where the presence of real color differences hinders nonsynesthetes.
D. The lack of synesthetic color differences tends to hinder nonsynesthetes in the same tasks where the presence of real color differences assists synesthetes.
E. The presence of real color differences tends to assist synesthetes in the same tasks where the lack of synesthetic color differences hinders nonsynesthetes.

[单项选择]The passage suggests which of the following about Dorothy Allison’s work
Ⅰ. Non-feminist writers have been less successful in producing historically situated narratives.
Ⅱ. Allison’s fiction successfully negotiates between essentialist arrogance and a reactionary response.
Ⅲ. Allison is more interested in her female antagonists than male protagonists, as characters.


A. Ⅰ only
B. Ⅱ only
C. Ⅰ and Ⅱ only
D. Ⅱ and Ⅲ only
E. (E) Ⅰ, Ⅱ, and Ⅲ