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考研英语模拟题38及答案 Section IUse of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A,B,C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. ( 10 points) Anthropology is the study of human beings as creatures of society. It1its attention upon those physical characteristics and industrial techniques, those conventions and values, which2one community from all others that belong to a different tradition. The distinguishing mark of anthropology among the social sciences is that it includes for serious study other societies3our own. For its purposes any social4of mating and reproduction is as significant as our own. To the anthropologist our customs and those of a New Guinea tribe are two possible social schemes for5a common problem, and in so far as he remains an anthropologist he is6to a-void any weighting of one7the other. He is interested in human behavior, not as it is shaped by one tradition, our own, but as it has been shaped by any tradition8. He is interested in a wide9of custom that is found in various cultures, and his object is to understand the way in which these cultures change and10 , the different forms through which they express themselves and the11 in which the customs of any peoples function in the lives of the12. Now custom has not been commonly regarded as a13of any great moment. The inner workings of our own brains we feel to be uniquely 14of investigation, but custom, we have a way of thinking ,is behavior at its most commonplace. 15, it is the other way round. Traditional custom is a mass of detailed behavior more astonishing than16any one person can ever evolve in individual actions. Yet that is a rather17aspect of the matter. The fact18first rate importance is the predominant role that custom19 in experience and belief, and the very great varieties it may 20. 1. [ A ] pays[ B ] revolves[ C ] fastens[ D ] draws 2. [ A ] distinguish[ B ] prohibit[ C] dispel[ D ] exempt 3. [ A ] of[ B ] from[ C ] for[ D] than 4. [ A ] regulation[ B