[单项选择]The passage suggests that the post-modernist relegation of an artwork's author to a minor and irrelevant post
A. (A) has resulted in a greater embrace of art forms that are sometimes wholly electronic
B. (B) has failed to entirely counter the notion that art-making originates at some point with an individual
C. (C) has enabled artists to demonstrate the visual and textual connections between art and art criticism
D. (D) has tended to increase the intimacy of creation at the expense of the cognition of artists
E. (E) has tended to subtly reinforce the ways in which artists are perceived as martyrs

[单项选择]The passage suggests that the post-modernist relegation of an artwork's author to a minor and irrelevant post


A. has resulted in a greater embrace of art forms that are sometimes wholly electronic
B. has failed to entirely counter the notion that art-making originates at some point with an individual
C. has enabled artists to demonstrate the visual and textual connections between art and art criticism
D. has tended to increase the intimacy of creation at the expense of the cognition of artists
E. (E) has tended to subtly reinforce the ways in which artists are perceived as martyrs

[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 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 that the earliest stoneware
A. was decorated with simple, abstract designs
B. used three-dimensional decorations
C. was valued for its fancy decorations
D. had no decoration

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

[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 married couples become
A. unfriendly with guests.
B. uninterested in guests.
C. hostile when guests have left.
D. quiet when guests have left.

[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

[单项选择]The passage suggests that the spiraling decline of black neighborhoods can be blamed primarily upon


A. a lack of political will within underprivileged communities to counter the economic effects of segregation
B. the diminished significance of urban black neighborhoods as economic and residential centers relatively to other areas of the city
C. the tendency of poor blacks to live among other poor minorities, unlike poor whites, who live dispersed among rich whites
D. the uniqueness of the geographic pattern in which black communities have developed in America, relative to other communities
E. (E) a lack of resources within the urban black American communities to resist the forces which lead to segregation

[单项选择]The passage suggests which of the following about the use of temporary employment by firms during the 1980's

[单项选择]The passage suggests that the effects of volcanic carbon dioxide on the environment differ from those of sulfurous gases in that

[单项选择]This passage suggests that not getting enough sleep might make you ______.


A. dream more often
B. have poor health
C. tired
D. breathe quickly