[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 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


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 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 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 which of the following about the increased resistance to harmful root fungi that some Plants infected with mycorrhizal fungi seem to exhibit
A. There are at least three hypotheses that might account for the increase.
B. The plants that show increased resistance also exhibit improved nitrogen fixation.
C. Such increases may be independent of mycorrhizal infection.
D. It is unlikely that a satisfactory explanation can be found to account for the increas

[单项选择]The passage suggests that the principal effect of the state action limitation was to ______.

[单项选择]The information in the passage suggests that advocates of the Headland Hypothesis discussed in the passage made which of the following errors


A. Failing to recognize the reciprocal relationship between foraging practices and the availability of carbohydrate-rich species
B. Attributing the trade relations between agriculturalists and foragers to the differences in the nutritional qualities of various rain forest food products
C. Overemphasizing the importance of carbohydrate-rich species to the diet of rain forest foragers
D. Interpreting changes in rain-forest composition to the willingness of agriculturalists to trade with foragers
E. (E) Failing to observe the role of seed-disbursal in the ecological success of the sago palm

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


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

[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 that creativity in children is mostly closely related ______.


A. talent
B. intelligence
C. a higher degree of technical skills
D. the process of developing original ideas

[单项选择]The passage suggests the author would most probably agree with which of the following statements about the relationship between Chinese novels written after 1949 and life in China during that period


A. The novels were slow to reflect changes in culture.
B. The novels reminded citizens of their heritage and traditions as well as pointed the way towards future possibilities.
C. The novels provided government sanctioned role models for citizens.
D. The authors presented a variety of experiences far wider than normally common to their audienc

[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]The passage suggests that the mystification of the artistic process by certain art historians and artists can be traced to


A. the necessity of protecting artistic meaning from a general public who would most likely misunderstand and object to it
B. an unconscious tendency of non-artists to lionize those artists whom the public admires but fails to understand
C. a desire to protect and maintain the isolation between those who make art and those who analyze it, so as to reinforce the creative/critical distinction
D. a movement to expunge the challenging texts of dual artist/critics like Leonardo da Vinci and Mary Kelly from the critical canon
E. (E) a distinction between the methodology of scholars, who tend to be erudite, and that of artists, who are more intuitive in their thinking processes