perfunctory（）

A.cursory

B.trenchant

C.tantalizing

D.incisive

E.illusory

答案

C、tantalizing

发布时间：2024-04-14

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第1题

There are many ways in which the phenomena of language and culture are intimately related

. All phenomena are unique to humans and have there-【M1】______ fore been the subject of a great deal of anthropological, sociological, and even memetic study. Language, of course, is determined by culture. For many people, language is not just the medium of culture but also the【M2】______ part of culture. It is quite common for immigrants from a new country to re-【M3】______ tain their old customs and to speak their first language amid fellow immigrants, even if all of present are comfortable in their new language. This oc-【M4】______ curs because the immigrants are eager to preserve their own heritage, which includes not only customs and traditions but also language. This is also seen in many Jewish communities. Linguistic differences are also often seen as mark of another culture, and【M5】______ they very commonly create divisiveness among neighboring peoples but even【M6】______ among different groups of the same nation. A good example of this is in Canada, where French-speaking natives of Quebec clash with the English-speaking majority. This sort of conflict is also uncommon in the areas with a great【M7】______ number of tribal warfare. It is even becoming an issue in America as speakers【M8】______ of standard American English—mainly whites and educating minorities—ob-【M9】______ serve the growing number of speakers of black English vernacular. Debates are common over whether it is proper to use "Ebonics" in schools, while their【M10】______ speakers continue to assert that the dialect is a fundamental part of the "black culture".

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第2题

阅读：Social change is more likely to occur in societies where there is a mixture of different

Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage:

Social change is more likely to occur in societies where there is a mixture of different kinds of people than in societies where people aresimilar in many ways. The simple reason for this is that there are more different ways of looking at things present in the first kind of society. There are more ideas, more disagreements in interest, and more groups and organizations with different beliefs. In addition, there is usually a greater worldly interest and greater tolerance in mixed societies. All these factors tend to promote social change by opening more areas of life to decision. In a society where people are quite similar in many ways, there are fewer occasions for people to see the need or the opportunity for change because everything seems to be the same. And although conditions may not be satisfactory, they are atleast customary and undisputed.

Within a society, social change is also likely to occur more frequently　and more readily in the material aspects of the culture than in the non material, for example, in technology rather than in values; in what has been learned later in life rather than what was learned early; in the less basic and less emotional aspects of society than in their opposites; in the simple elements　rather than in the complex ones; in form. rather than in substance; and in elements that are acceptable to the culture rather than in strange elements.

Furthermore, social change is easier if it is gradual. For example, it　comes more readily in human relations on a continuous scale rather than one with sharp dichotomies (一分为二). This is one reason why change has not come more quickly to Black Americans as compared to other American minorities,　because of the sharp difference in appearance between them and their white counterparts.

36.What kind of society tends to promote social changes？

A) A society where people are similar in many ways.

B) A society where there are only white people.

C) A society where there are only black people.

D) A society where there is a mixture of different kinds of people.

37.In a mixed society, there may be disagreement in ____.

A) ideas C) beliefs

B) interests D) all of the above

38.Which of the following is not true, according to the passage？

A) Social change is more likely to occur in the material aspect of society.

B) Social change is less likely to occur in what people learned when they were old.

C) Disagreement with and argument about conditions tend to promote social change.