[单项选择]If winning is everything, British anthropologists have some advice: wear red. Their survey of four sports at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens shows competitors were more likely to win their contests if they wore red uniforms or red body armor. "Across a range of sports, we find that wearing red is consistently associated with a higher probability of winning," report Russell A. Hill and Robert A. Barton of the University of Durham in England. Their findings are in Thursday’s issue of the journal Nature. Red coloration is associated with aggression in many animals. Often it is sexually selected so that scarlet markings signal male dominance. Just think of the red stripes on the scowling face of the male Mandrill, Africa’s largest monkey species. But red is not exclusively a male trait. It’s the female black widow spider that is venomous and displays a menacing red dot on her abdomen.
Similarly, the color’s effect also may subconsciously intimidate opponents in athletic contests, e
A. threaten
B. imitate
C. distract
D. confuse

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[单项选择]If winning is everything, British anthropologists have some advice: wear red. Their survey of four sports at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens shows competitors were more likely to win their contests if they wore red uniforms or red body armor. "Across a range of sports, we find that wearing red is consistently associated with a higher probability of winning," report Russell A. Hill and Robert A. Barton of the University of Durham in England. Their findings are in Thursday’s issue of the journal Nature. Red coloration is associated with aggression in many animals. Often it is sexually selected so that scarlet markings signal male dominance. Just think of the red stripes on the scowling face of the male Mandrill, Africa’s largest monkey species. But red is not exclusively a male trait. It’s the female black widow spider that is venomous and displays a menacing red dot on her abdomen.
Similarly, the color’s effect also may subconsciously intimidate opponents in athletic contes
A. controlling power of male Mandrills
B. greater chances of winning in sports
C. menacing characteristics of female back widow spiders
D. higher speed of automobiles

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[单项选择]Passage Five

Some modern anthropologists hold that biological evolution has shaped not only human morphology but also human behavior. The role those anthropologists ascribe to evolution is not of dictating the details of human behavior but one of imposing constraints-ways of feeling, thinking, and acting that "come naturally" in archetypal situations in any culture. Our "frailties" --emotions and motives such as rage, fear, greed, gluttony, joy, lust, love--may be a very mixed assortment, but they share at least one immediate quality: we are, as we say, "in the grip" of them. And thus they give us our sense of constraints.
Unhappily, some of those frailties--our need for ever-increasing security among them--are presently maladaptive. Yet beneath the overlay of cultural detail, they, too, are said to be biological in direction, and therefore
A. a position on the foundations of human behavior and on what those foundations imply
B. a theory outlining the parallel development of human morphology and of human behavior
C. a diagnostic test for separating biologically determined behavior patterns from culture- specific detail
D. a practical method for resisting the pressures of biologically determined drives

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[填空题]Anthropologists have divided prehistoric North America Indian societies into three categories: bands, tribes, and chiefdoms. Bands were the earliest and most common form of social organization. However, it is unlikely that the first people who came to North America about forty thousand years ago traveled in bands. The climate in the Bering Strait region was so severe and food was so scarce that large groups of people, such as the bands, would have had great difficulty in making such a journey successfully. The earliest people probably traveled in single family units. Some of the units, however, may have gathered together periodically for social reasons.
66. ______
Whatever the beginning of the bands in the New World, this form of organization was very common after the initial settlement of the continent. Bands flourished throughout North America until the time of European colonization. In many areas, they survived long after the arrival of the Europeans. When English, Dut

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