[单项选择]The passage suggests that when jet streams interact with continents with few mountain ranges and plains, which of the following also happens
A. More "wandering" occurs in the jet stream than would probably occur over the ocean.
B. The continent in question heats and cools at a faster rate than it would without the jet stream.
C. The jet stream becomes more narrow and focused than it would be over the ocean.
D. The temperature of the jet stream is distributed more evenly than if the continent had more mountains.
E. The jet stream evinces more signs of being a thermally driven phenomenon than it does in other situations.

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

[单项选择]The passage suggests that an assumption underlying Connerton’s theory of dance and social memory is that
A. the automatic nature of dance tends to restrict the extent to which dances can be "read"
B. the value and effectiveness of dance performance lies in transmitting social memory through unconscious means
C. the legitimization of most social orders stems from social memory transmitted through dance
D. folklore and community history are the principal narratives dance is capable of expressing
E. social structures would most likely be more conservative if dance did not transmit social memory

[单项选择]The passage suggests that one major difficulty in establishing patterns of migration is
A. the infrequency of life course events, which restricts the amount of data available to demographers
B. the overwhelming availability of proxies in migration patterns, which creates a degree of stasis in migration records
C. the lack of parishioner birth records, which limits the hard evidence upon which demographers base their observations
D. the homogeneity of single parishes, which makes it difficult to distinguish the motivations of migrants
E. the repetitive nature of migration, which results in a surfeit of unusable data that overwhelms demographers

[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. a distinction between the methodology of scholars, who tend to be erudite, and that of artists, who are more intuitive in their thinking processes

[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. a lack of resources within the urban black American communities to resist the forces which lead to segregation

[填空题]The passage suggests that parents should always help their children in paying their debt.

[单项选择]The passage suggests that the influence of communal living on pre-linguistic children can be traced to
A. the primacy of language, as opposed to labor, in establishing categories of cultural meaning
B. an experimental solution to the problems of the indeterminancy of radical translation
C. a mechanism of enculturation that exists independently of language acquisition
D. an innate grasp of language that allows children perceive social structures in linguistic categories
E. language’s close and dependent relationship with culture

[单项选择]The passage suggests that all research has proven that which of the following is true about the phenomenon of synesthesia
A. The lack of synesthetic color differences tends to hinder synesthetics in the same tasks where the presence of real color differences assists nonsynesthetes.
B. The presence of real color differences tends to assist nonsynesthetes in the same tasks where the lack of synesthetic color differences assists synesthetes.
C. The presence of synesthetic color differences tends to assist synesthetics in the same tasks where the presence of real color differences hinders nonsynesthetes.
D. The lack of synesthetic color differences tends to hinder nonsynesthetes in the same tasks where the presence of real color differences assists synesthetes.
E. The presence of real color differences tends to assist synesthetes in the same tasks where the lack of synesthetic color differences hinders nonsynesthetes.

[单项选择]The passage suggests which of the following about Virgina Woolf’s work
Ⅰ. Woolf’s most lasting contribution has been the high sense of objectivity she brought to her work, which was mostly lacking in the feminist writing of the time
Ⅱ. Much of Woolf’s non-fiction employed narrative strategies more commonly used in narrative at the time.
Ⅲ. Woolf’s intentions regarding the use of biographical anecdotes have largely been misread by critics.


A. Ⅰ only
B. Ⅱ only
C. Ⅰ and Ⅲ only
D. Ⅱ and Ⅲ only
E. (E) Ⅰ, Ⅱ, and Ⅲ