[单项选择]According to the passage, Julian Huxley's theory suggests that______.

[单项选择]According to the passage, Julian Huxley's theory suggests that______.

[单项选择]According to the passage, game theory ________.


A. means regarding economics as an easy game
B. is used to examine the breadth of short-term profits
C. can lead to advisable decision in applied economic situations
D. is a method for predicting the possibility of long-term profits

[单项选择]According to the passage, Pfaffman's theory differs from that which has been most recently considered by scientists in that it
A. (A) postulates that peripheral neurons do not respond to a greater extent to stimuli representing a single taste quality
B. (B) ignores the crucial difference between central and peripheral gustatory neurons in their role as mechanisms of taste
C. (C) implies that the activity of any individual taste cell, taken by itself, is ambiguous
D. (D) fails to acknowledge that specific gustatory neurons are associated with particular tastes
E. (E) relies primarily upon research data that has come from human, rather than animal, subjects

[单项选择]According to the passage, Anderson's theory explains the longevity of British colonial authority in India because the British
A. (A) offered great flexibility and authority to the local elites with whom they were obliged to negotiate
B. (B) felt a great temptation to act unilaterally and exercise military authority of their Indian possessions
C. (C) became more deeply enmeshed in the politics of the Indian subcontinent than was strategically appropriate
D. (D) managed to convince the local elites that submission to the British would be economically advantageous for all parties
E. (E) resisted successfully the attempts of local power brokers to revise the terms of their negotiations

[单项选择]According to the passage, Ware's theory of the role of weather in the Anasazi evacuation differs from the position traditionally held by anthropologists in which of the following ways
A. (A) Ware relies upon a different body of evidence than previous anthropologist have, but reaches the same conclusions.
B. (B) Ware ascribes a less dominant role to weather than had been traditionally posited by anthropologists.
C. (C) Ware ascribes a more dominant role to weather than had been traditionally posited by anthropologists.
D. (D) Ware believes weather played a role in the evacuation, but not the one traditionally cited.
E. (E) Ware believes that another factor besides weather was responsible for the Great Drought.

[单项选择]According to the passage, the corpuscular theory of light ______.


A. was never accepted by the Royal Society
B. was finally accepted by Hooke and Huygens
C. was the most popular during the eighteenth century
D. was rejected by Hooke and Huygens but accepted for the next hundred yeas

[单项选择]According to the passage, the General Theory describes gravity as a function of______.


A. time
B. mass
C. curvature
D. unknown forces

[单项选择]According to the passage, Milton' s Paradise Lost could be characterized as______.


A. literature of knowledge
B. expressive of the grandeur of truth
C. a kind of philosophical cookbook
D. infinitely complex in structure

[单项选择]According to the passage, Hamilton' s plan included all BUT which of the following

[单项选择]According to the passage, today's successful firms, unlike successful firms in the past, may earn the greatest profits by


A. investing in research to produce cheaper versions of existing technology
B. being the first to market a competing technology
C. adapting rapidly to a technological standard previously set by a competing firm
D. emphasizing the development of methods for the mass production and distribution of a new technology

[单项选择]According to the passage, today’s ultralight airplanes ______.


A. are inexpensive but difficult to fly
B. are more like go-karts than like hang gliders
C. cannot climb as fast or as high as hang gliders
D. are not too different from the earlier aircraft

[单项选择]According to the passage, people's learning activities are possible because they ______.


A. enjoy being rewarded for doing the right thing
B. know what is vital to the progress of society
C. believe that emotions are fundamental for them to stay alive
D. benefit from providing help and support to one another

[单项选择]According to the passage, people' s learning activities are possible because they ______.
A. believe that emotions are fundamental for them to stay alive
B. benefit from providing help and support to one another
C. enjoy being rewarded for doing the right thing
D. know what is vital to the progress of society