[单项选择]According to the passage, American education meets the needs of ______.
A. the brightest and slow students
B. the students who is studying abroad
C. the students from foreign countries
D. the emigrants

[单项选择]According to the passage, American education meets the needs of ______.
A. the brightest and slow students
B. the students who is studying abroad
C. the students from foreign countries
D. the emigrants

[单项选择]According to the passage, school education stresses more on______.
A. thinking with the right side of the brain
B. combining both sides of the brain
C. using the left side of the brain
D. developing imaginary thinking

[单项选择]According to the passage, the American restaurant waiter may provide more service than required mainly because______.

[单项选择]According to the passage, early American parishioners held which of the following views concerning parish demography
A. (A) Migration between towns stands in direct contrast with the accumulation of population in cities.
B. (B) Parish populations would grow at fairly equal rates, given the fact that those who left a parish in response to life course events were usually replaced.
C. (C) Migration between parishes was a rare enough phenomenon that it was unnecessary to keep records of it in any fashion.
D. (D) Parish populations often chose to remain sedimentary as a result of the homogeneity of the various countryside parishes.
E. (E) Parish populations owed their existence on the whole to the influx of populations due to life course events.

[单项选择]According to the passage, all American presidents have experienced ______.
A. (A) disappointment with the quality of their press coverage
B. (B) alternating periods of antagonism and harmony with the press
C. (C) hostility between themselves and the press
D. (D) having untruthful reports published about themselves

[单项选择]According to the passage, American schools today have turned into ______.
A. a typically bureaucratic organization, highly rigid and impersonal
B. an efficient means of supervising educational curricular and ensuring uniformity
C. a well organized system competent enough to meet the educational demands of the vast and complex society
D. all of the above

[单项选择]According to the passage, the time American children usually spend on watching TV________.

[单项选择]According to the passage, some native American "Dutch" expressions were related to the German instead of the Dutch, simply because .
A. People hated the German as much as the Dutch.
B. People made a mistake at the beginning.
C. People made a joke about the German.
D. The German immigrants proclaimed that they were Dutch.

[单项选择]According to the passage, American farmers______.
A. knew their business better than anyone else
B. usually cared more about their short-term interest
C. readily adopted better agricultural techniques
D. realized the values of better land use by themselves

[单项选择]According to the passage,
A. the problem of student cheating has its roots in deeper problems
B. students do not cheat on essay tests
C. a change in the educational system will eliminate the need to cheat
D. punishment is an effective method of stopping cheating

[单项选择]According to the passage, Sommer
A. inherited huge problems.
B. splurged the company asset.
C. tried out successful reforms.
D. regarded Ricke highly and helped him.

[单项选择]According to the passage more government assistance is needed for the Eskimos in ________.
A. providing schools.
B. safeguarding their traditional means of livelihood.
C. encouraging agricultural production.
D. promoting industrial job possibilities.

[单项选择]According to this passage, Environmental Protection Agency _____.
A. is the only agency studying the effects of air pollution on health
B. has launched a surprised attack on researchers
C. has decided to decrease the permitted concentration of airborne dust
D. has tremendously improved pollution control

[单项选择]According to the passage, psychophysical parallelists would be LEAST likely to agree with which of the following views attributed to Spinoza
A. (A) Through a relationship of correlation, mental occurrences can only determine other mental occurrences.
B. (B) Through a relationship of causation, physical occurrences can only determine other physical occurrences.
C. (C) Mind and body exist in pre-established coordination provided by a third entity, transcendent intelligence.
D. (D) Consciousness and extension, as separate finite qualities, may be described as distinct.
E. (E) One of the necessary attributes of any divine essence is its infinitude.

[单项选择]According to the passage, interdisciplinary studies are characterized by all the following EXCEPT that ______.
A. they involve the joint efforts of scholars from different disciplines
B. they depend on the knowledge of different disciplines
C. they promote academic contact among people from different disciplines
D. they represent a newly emerging movement as against specializations

[单项选择]According to the passage modern advertising becomes one of the most prosperous industries because ______.
A. people are more concerned with tile image of a product rather than the product itself
B. it saves manufacturers from considering how the products can appeal to customers
C. there are all kinds of media available
D. there are many excellent advertisers who can make their voices authoritative

[单项选择]According to the passage the following statements can convey a certain kind of information except ______.
A. the time of eye contact
B. the distance between the two persons
C. the way of sitting or standing.
D. the way of talking

[单项选择]According to the passage, behavioral psychologists studying the extinction process have discerned which of the following