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考研英语模拟题模拟443 Section Ⅰ Use of EnglishDirections:Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET.    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 to foresee possibilities within it. Imagination enables us to