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新SAT 阅读基础段第四章写作手法题The Second World War was a watershed event for all Americans. It brought the Great Depression to an end and marked the beginning of significant socioeconomic and political changes for women and racial minorities. Chinese American women played an important role in these long-term changes. Galvanized by motives ranging from Chinese nationalism to American patriotism and feminism, Chinese American women initiated an outpouring of highly organized activities in such areas as fund-raising, propaganda, civil defense, and Red Cross work. While some women in San Francisco’s Chinatown enlisted in the armed services, many others went to work in businesses outside their neighborhood and in defense industries for the first time. 1. Which best characterizes the relationship between the first paragraph and the second paragraph? (A) The first paragraph relates an anecdote that illustrates a generalization made in the second paragraph. (B) The first paragraph presents a claim that is supported in the second paragraph. (C) The paragraphs offer different explanations for the same phenomenon. (D) The second paragraph digresses from the topic discussed in the first paragraph. Bats have always figured as frightening or supernatural creatures in the mythology, religion, and superstition of peoples everywhere. Finnish peasants once believed that their souls rose from their bodies while they slept and flew around the countryside as bats, then returned to them by morning. Ancient Egyptians prized bat parts as medicine for a variety of diseases. Perhaps the most mystical, ghoulish, and intimate relationship between bats and humans occurred among the Maya about two thousand years ago. Zotzilaha Chamalcan, their bat god, had a human body but the stylized head and wings of a bat. His image appears often on their altars, pottery, gold ornaments, and stone pillars. One especially frightening engraving shows the bat god with outstretched wings and a question-mark nose, its tongu