No.4-2-1 长P24 捕食者与被捕食者的智力进化
Ø Using past events as a framework, the large mammal predator is working out a relationship between movement and food, sensitive to possibillties in cold trails and distant sounds 对应20题
20.The sensitivity described in lines 56-61 is most clearly an example of
(A) “free-floating awareness”(lines 16-17)
(B) “flooding of impulses in the brain stem”(lines 29-30)
(C) “the holding of consistent images”(lines31-32)
(D) “integration of details with perceived ends and purposes”(lines37-38)
(E) “silk-thin veils of tranquility”(line64)
Ø 26. The author implies that an innovative scientific contribution is one that
(A) is cited with high frequency in the publications of other scientists
(B) is accepted immediately by the scientific community
(C) does not relegate particulars to the role of data
(D) presents the discovery of a new scientific fact
(E) introduces a new valid generalization
原文
Innovative science produces new propositions in terms of which diverse phenomena can be related to one another in more coherent ways.
Ø 23. According to the passage, which of the following occurred prior to 1890?
(A) Frederick J. Turner's thesis regarding the American frontier became influential.
(B) The Homestead Act led to an increase in the amount of newly farmed land in the United States.
(C) The manufacturers of technologically advanced agricultural machinery rapidly increased their marketing efforts.
(D) Direct lines of communication were constructed between the United States and South America.
(E) Technological advances made it fruitful to farm extensively on a mechanized basis.
原文
South America in 1874. By about 1870 improvements in agricultural technology made possible the full exploitation of areas that were most suitable for extensive farming on a mechanized basis.
Ø 22.According to the passage, the case histories extracted by historians have
(A) scarcely illuminated the attitudes of the political and social elite
(B) indicated the manner in which those in power apportioned justice
(C) focused almost entirely on the thoughts and feelings of different social groups toward crime and the law
(D) been considered the first kind of historical writing that utilized the records of legal courts
(E) been based for the most part on the trial testimony of police and other legal authorities]
原文
Historians such as Le Roy Ladurie have used the documents to extract case histories, which have illuminated the attitudes of different social groups (these attitudes include, but are not confined revealed how the authorities administered justice.