At the Shadybrook dog kennel, all the adult animals were given a new medication designed to reduce a dog‘s risk of contracting a certain common infection. Several days after the medication was administered, most of the puppies of these dogs had elevated temperatures. Since raised body temperature is a side effect of this medication, the kennel owner hypothesized that the puppies‘ elevated temperatures resulted from the medication‘s being passed to them through their mothers‘ milk.
8. Which of the following, if true, provides the most support for the kennel owner‘s hypothesis?
(A) Some puppies have been given the new medication directly but have not suffered elevated temperatures as a side effect.
(B) The new medication has been well received by dog breeders as a safe and effective way of preventing the spread of certain common canine infections.
(C) None of the four puppies in the kennel who had been bottle-fed with formula had elevated temperatures.
(D) an elevated temperature is a side effect of a number of medications for dogs other than the new medication administered at the kennel.
(E) Elevated temperatures such as those suffered by most of the puppies in the kennel rarely have serious long-term effects on a puppy‘s health.
这个不是很明白啊~~应该是母乳喂养和其他方式喂养的对比啊~~为什么不是C呢?
Recent scholarship has strongly suggested that the aspects of early New England culture that seem to have been most distinctly Puritan, such as the strong religious orientation and the communal impulse, were not typical of New England as a whole, but were largely confined to the two colonies of Massachusetts and Connecticut. Thus, what in contrast to the Puritan colonies appears to Professor Davis to be peculiarly Southern was not only more typically English than the cultural patterns exhibited by Puritan Massachusetts and Connecticut, but also almost certainly characteristic of most other early modern British colonies from Barbados north to Rhode Island and New Hampshire. Within the larger framework of American colonial life, then, not the Southern but the Puritan colonies appear to have been distinctive, and even they seem to have been rapidly assimilating to the dominant cultural patterns by the late Colonial period.
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8. Which of the following statements could most logically
follow the last sentence of the passage?
(A) Thus, had more attention been paid to the
evidence, Davis would not have been tempted
to argue that the culture of the South
diverged greatly from Puritan culture in the
seventeenth century.
(B) Thus, convergence, not divergence, seems to
have characterized the cultural development
of the American colonies in the eighteenth
century.
(C) Thus, without the cultural diversity represented
by the America South, the culture of colonial
America would certainly have been
homogeneous in nature.
(D) Thus, the contribution of Southern colonials to
American culture was certainly overshadowed
by that of the Puritans.
(E) Thus, the culture of America during the Colonial
period was far more sensitive to outside
influences than historians are accustomed to
acknowledge.