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第四段长难句 Only when humanity began to get its food in a more productive way was there time for other things. only when 放句首，引导时间状语从句，引起there be 句型倒装（ was there）。 翻译：只有当人类开始更有效地获取食物后，他们才有时间去考虑其他事情。 35. According to the last paragraph , development of education __________. [A] results directly from competitive environments [B] does not depend on economic performance [C] follows improved productivity [D] cannot afford political changes 解析： C与第五段第②句和第⑥句的意思相同 A反向干扰将第②句的内容改为竞争环境直接促进教育发展 B与文义不符 D夸大其词 第五段?As education improved, humanity’s productivity potential increased as well.?When the competitive environment pushed our ancestors to achieve that potential ,they could in turn afford more education. ? This increasingly high level of education is probably a necessary, but not a sufficient, condition for the complex political systems required by advanced economic performance. ④ Thus poor countries might not be able to escape their poverty traps without political changes that may be possible only with broader formal education.⑤A lack of formal education, however, doesn’t constrain the ability of the developing world’s workforce to substantially improve productivity for the foreseeable future. ⑥On the contrary, constraints on improving productivity explain why education isn’t developing more quickly there than it is. 第五段单词词组 productivity potential 生产力潜能 afford 提供，给予 a necessary, but not a sufficient, condition 必要非充分条件 trap 困境 constrain 限制，约束 substantially 大幅度地 for the foreseeable future 可预见的未来 text 4 36. The author holds that in the seventeenth-century New England___________. [A] Puritan tradition dominated political life. [B] intellectual interests were encouraged. [C] Politics benefited much from intellectual endeavors. [D] intellectual pursuits enjoyed a liberal environment. 词汇： courage勇气—encourage 鼓舞鼓励—discourage 使沮丧 benefit from 从……中受益 endeavor努力，尝试 liberal 自由的，开明的 同义替换： attach importance to 第一段?The most thoroughly studied intellectuals in the histo