[单项选择]At the end of the passage the author suggests that（　）.
A. it is impossible for life to exist on other planets.
B. earthlike life could only exist on a few planets.
C. life could exist on only one planet in a million.
D. life could exist on a great number of planets.

[单项选择]The passage suggests that the author would be likely to agree with which of tbe following statements about the social structure of eighteenth-century American society
Ⅰ. It allowed greater economic opportunity than it did social mobility.
Ⅱ. It permitted greater economic opportunity prior to 1750 than after 1750.
Ⅲ. It did not contain rigidly defined socioeconomic divisions.
Ⅳ. It prevented economic disputes from arising among members of the society.


A. Ⅰand Ⅳ only
B. Ⅱand Ⅲ only
C. Ⅲ and Ⅳ　only
D. Ⅰ, Ⅱ and Ⅲ only

[单项选择]The author of the passage suggests that all of the following may be consequences of applying a pathological taxonomy to a diseased person EXCEPT
A. Easier access to health care for the victim
B. Social discrimination against the victim
C. Influence on the victim’s decision to reproduce
D. Helping to cure the victim’s condition
E. Complication of the victim’s ability to obtain insurance

[填空题]At the end of the passage, the author seems to emphasize the function of education in an increasingly high-tech world.

[单项选择]The passage suggests that an assumption underlying non-economist social scientists dismal of economics as dismal is that
A. positive-sum outcomes cannot, by the definition of the power model, exist
B. all social sciences founded on pragmatism instead of idealism are dismal
C. zero-sum interactions models are inherently optimistic in their view of the future
D. scarcity does not necessarily exist as a controlling factor in social systems
E. economics is anti-utopian by nature, proposing a more realistic view of the future

[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

[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