2012届钻石卡学员10月份强化阶段测试卷二英语.docVIP

机密★启用前 2012届全国硕士研究生入学统一考试 (万学海文阶段测试卷2012届万学海文钻石卡学员强化阶段测试卷二 考试时间：180分钟 满分：100分 学员姓名： 是否学数学： 目标院校和专业： 总分： Section I Use of English Directions： Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A，B，C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points) Culture itself must be transmitted, and the most effective way is through the family. Parents teach their children the ideas and traditions they 1 from their own parents. For this reason the 2 became increasingly important; the practical applications of cultural tradition, such as hunting for food, 3 children and tending the sick, may have been the obvious methods to use when more than one family came together in a joint activity. Families provide friends, people who can be trusted, and trust can be 4 through intermarriage. Thus the whole societies come to be formed, in which the relationships between kin act 5 guidelines for daily behavior and establish important social values. Sometimes traditional ways even become 6 into laws. The original reasons may be lost, but a process is 7 . The society survives where others fail 8 its members’ behavior is controlled for the benefit of all 9 laws, customs, and traditional beliefs. Furthermore, in cultural traditions 10 from generation to generation, humans have a kind of cultural capital on which to draw. By 11 account of past wisdom we can look into the future and plan for events that are not always 12 . The fact that we make 13 repeatedly to a standard pattern, and use them to make other tools, 14 us clearly from other animals. It indicates cultural factors at work 15 instinct. A sea otter may learn to break shellfish open with rocks, but it will not 16 to change an unsatisfactory stone. The difference 17 the power of the human brain not only to 18 the outside world, to see and react to it, but also to conceive of what it might be. That is—to 19 a world unseen and unknown, and