[单项选择]According to passage, Indian names were important because they ______.
A. described the character of a man
B. described the appearance of a man
C. were never used by other people
D. told us his profession

[单项选择]According to passage, Indian names were important because they ______.
A. described the character of a man
B. described the appearance of a man
C. were never used by other people
D. told us his profession

[单项选择]According to the passage, Indian names were important because they ______.
A. described the character of a man
B. described the appearance of a man
C. were never used by other people
D. told us his profession

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Passage Two
Sioux names were a language unto themselves, laden with descriptive, allusive, or even magical meaning. A Sioux baby was named soon after birth--usually by a medicine man or a paternal relative--and the entire village participated in the occasion. The infant might be named for an animal, for a physical phenomenon such as thunder that occurred on the day of the birth, or even for a brave deed that once had been performed by the giver of the name. A woman generally kept the name she received at birth, but a man often replace his original name with a new one that celebrated a personal act of valor, recalled an encounter with an unusual animal, or perhaps was inspired by a dream. However, a man who had a distinguishing characteristic was forever known by an apposite nickname, such as Big Hand. Because Sioux names almost always were based on something objective, they could easily be rendered as pictographs-frequently with a line connecting visual representat
A. a woman
B. a man
C. a name
D. an act

[单项选择]According to the passage, important inventions of the twentieth century ______.
A. are not necessarily produced as a result of governmental support for military weapons research and development.
B. came primarily from the huge laboratories of monopoly industries
C. were produced at least as frequently by independent inventors as by research teams
D. have greater impact on smaller firms than on conglomerates

[单项选择]According to the passage, an important limitation of relativity theory is that
A. (A) it fails to describe space on a non-local level, complicating attempts to determine the geometrical model of the universe
B. (B) it cannot account for the possibility that the universe may be multiply- connected instead of singly-connected
C. (C) it yields inconsistencies in spatial topology equations, discriminating unnecessarily between the torus and the plane
D. (D) it creates the illusion that observable space is curved, when in fact the universe may be Euclidean and planar
E. (E) it does not provides sufficient variety in geometrical models to describe all the possible ways in which space may curve

[单项选择]According to the passage which is most important

[单项选择]According to the passage, one important reason why newspapers printed daily weather maps during the first half of the twentieth century was
A. ( the progress in printing technology
B. ( a growing interest in air transportation
C. ( a change in atmospheric conditions
D. ( the improvement of weather forecasting techniques

[单项选择]According to the passage, one important change in United States education by the 1920's was that ______.
A. most places required children to attend
B. the amount of time spent on formal education was limited
C. new regulations were imposed on nontraditional education
D. adults and children studied in the same classes

[单项选择]According to the passage, the important plants grown in New York include ______.
A. cherries, pears, apples, com, and onions
B. grapes, butter, potatoes, com, and onions
C. vegetable, flowers, fruits, and apples
D. numerous flower and plant nurseries

[单项选择]According to the passage water is important for all of the following, except______.
A. early international trade
B. the most common substance in living plant and animal tissues
C. hydroelectric power stations
D. sanitation and recreation