美国学术能力评估考试（SAT）
单选题The author of Passage 1 refers to the hunter-gatherer primarily to suggest that ______.A human history is more violent than we are inclined to acknowledgeB our human ancestors were more focused on acquiring food than on establishing social structuresC
题目
human history is more violent than we are inclined to acknowledge
our human ancestors were more focused on acquiring food than on establishing social structures
the human faculty of intuition has evolved considerably since the time of our ancient ancestors
even our earliest ancestors were highly introspective
human cognition developed to serve immediate survival needs
相似问题和答案
第1题：
Female capuchin monkeys were chosen for the research most probably because they are ________.
[A] more inclined to weigh what they get
[B] attentive to researchers’ instructions
[C] nice in both appearance and temperament
[D] more generous than their male companions
第2题：
From this passage, we learn that the people ______.
A) spend more money than they earned
B) saved more money than previously
C) spent their money wisely
D) invested and consumed at an accelerated pace
答案：D
[试题分析] 综合判断题。
[详细解答] 提问的是整篇文章的内容，因此，应该选择两方面都包括的D，选择项D中包括了三个关键词：invest， consume，accelerate；相比之下，A、B、C表达的内容则都是指消费方面。
第3题：
The purpose of the author in writing this passage is
A． that, by banning the violent sports, we human beings can improve ourselves
B． that, by banning the dangerous sports, we can improve the law
C． that we must take positive steps to improve social welfare system
D． to show law is the main instrument of social change
通过文章最后一段If we banned dangerous and violent sports，we would be moving one step further to improving mankind．We would recognize that violence is degrading and unworthy of human beings．可以推知A项最为恰当。
第4题：
In a society where people are quite similar in many ways, there are fewer occasions for people to see the need or the opportunity for change because everything seems to be the same. And although conditions may not be satisfactory, they are at least customary and undisputed.
Within a society, social changes is also likely to occur more frequently and more readily in the material aspects of the culture than in the non-material, for example, in technology rather than in values; in what has been learned later in life rather than what was learned early; in the less basic and less emotional aspects of society than in their opposites; in the simple elements rather than in the complex ones; in form rather than in substance; and in elements that are acceptable to the culture rather than in strange elements.
Furthermore, social change is easier if it is gradual. For example, it comes more readily in human relations on a continuous scale rather than one with sharp difference. This is one reason why change has not come more quickly to Black Americans as compared to other American minorities,because of the sharp difference in appearance between them and their white counterparts.
?The expression "greater tolerance" (Para. 1) refers to__________.
B.quicker adaptation to changing circumstances
C.more respect for different beliefs and behavior
D.greater readiness to agree to different opinions and ideas
第5题：
The author aims to tell us that_________．
A． women's minds perform. better than men's
B． men's minds decline more with age
C． everyone becomes a little more forgetful as they get older
D． a survey on human's mind decline was done recently
B[解析]根据文章开头“…but men's minds decline more than women's…”可知本题答案为B。
第6题：
Prehistoric men and women enjoyed a more varied diet than people do now, since they ate species of plant and several hundreds thousands types of living things. But only a tiny percentage of these were ever domesticated. Modern shops have hastened a trend towards specialization which began in the earliest days of agriculture. The food of the rich countries has become cheaper relative to wages. It is speedily distributed in supermarkets. But the choice annually becomes less and less great. Even individual foods themselves become more standardized. We live in the world of carrot specially blunted in order to avoid making a hole in the bag, and the tomato grown to meet a demand for a standard weight of weighting tomatoes to a kilo. Siri von Reis asks: "Only the three major cereals (谷物类食物) and perhaps ten other widely cultivated species stand between famine and survival for the world's human population and a handful of drug plants has served Western civilization for several thousand years. A rather obvious question arises: Are we missing something?" After all, there are 800 000 species of plant on earth.
1、In prehistoric times people____.
A、ate much more than we do today
B、lived mainly on plant food
C、had a wide-ranging diet
D、were more fussy about what they ate
2、Most of us have come to expect____.
A、no variation in our diet
B、a reduction in food supplies
C、a specialist diet
D、food conforming to a set standard
3、The specialization of food was started by____.
A、the emergence of supermarkets
B、the rise of agriculture
C、the rich countries
D、the modern shops
4、According to the passage, people in the West today survive on____.
A、carrots and tomatoes
B、several thousand types of plants and cereals
C、a very small number of cultivated foods
D、special species planted one thousand years ago
5、The conclusion seems to be that we____.
A、could make use of more natural species
B、don't cultivate the right kind of food
C、produce more food than we need
D、cultivate too many different species
第7题：
Text 4
Anthropology is the study of human beings as creatures of society. It fastens its attention upon those physical characteristics and industrial techniques, those conventions and values, which distinguish one 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 more other societies than our own. For its purposes any social regulation of mating and reproduction is as significant as our own, though it may be that of the Sea Dyaks, and have no possible historical relation to that of our civilization. To the anthropologist, our customs and those of a New Guinea tribe are two possible social schemes for dealing with a common problem, arid in so far as he remains an anthropologist he is bound to avoid any weighting of one in favor of the other, lie is interested in human behavior, not as it is shaped by one tradition, our own, but as it has been shaped by any tradition whatsoever. He is interested in a wide range of custom that is found in various cultures, and his object is to understand the way in which these cultures change and differentiated, the different forms through which they express themselves and the manner in which the customs of any peoples function in the lives of the individuals.
Now custom has not been commonly regarded as a subject of any great moment. The inner workings of our own brains we feel to be uniquely worthy of investigation, but custom, we have a way of thinking, is behavior. at its most commonplace. As a matter of fact, it is the other way round. Traditional custom is a mass of detailed behavior. more astonishing than what any one person can ever evolve in individual actions. Yet that is a rather trivial aspect of the matter. The fact of first rate importance is the predominant role that custom plays in experience and belief, and the very great varieties it may manifest.
36. According to the passage, we can say that anthropology ______.
A)can deal with human beings as one group of the creatures in the living world
B) can reveal an enormous diversity of traditions
C) can provide insights into the relationship between human beings and nature
D) can distinguish the human race from other creatures
答案：B
[试题分析] 文章主旨判断题。
[详细解答] 实际上提问的是全文的主题，实际上，这一主题不仅第一段已表达，而且贯穿全文。答案应该是B。
第8题：
What can we learn from the passage?
A. We should enjoy someone who hurts us.
B. We should pay more attention to our friends.
C. The peace of mind is more important than the hurt itself.
D. It’s better to let bitterness go along with the other person.
第9题：
In a society where people are quite similar in many ways, there are fewer occasions for people to see the need or the opportunity for change because everything seems to be the same. And although conditions may not be satisfactory, they are at least customary and undisputed.
Within a society, social changes is also likely to occur more frequently and more readily in the material aspects of the culture than in the non-material, for example, in technology rather than in values; in what has been learned later in life rather than what was learned early; in the less basic and less emotional aspects of society than in their opposites; in the simple elements rather than in the complex ones; in form rather than in substance; and in elements that are acceptable to the culture rather than in strange elements.
Furthermore, social change is easier if it is gradual. For example, it comes more readily in human relations on a continuous scale rather than one with sharp difference. This is one reason why change has not come more quickly to Black Americans as compared to other American minorities,because of the sharp difference in appearance between them and their white counterparts.
One of the factors that tend to promote social change is__________.
B.different points of view
C.less emotional people
D.advanced technology
第10题：
In a society where people are quite similar in many ways, there are fewer occasions for people to see the need or the opportunity for change because everything seems to be the same. And although conditions may not be satisfactory, they are at least customary and undisputed.
Within a society, social changes is also likely to occur more frequently and more readily in the material aspects of the culture than in the non-material, for example, in technology rather than in values; in what has been learned later in life rather than what was learned early; in the less basic and less emotional aspects of society than in their opposites; in the simple elements rather than in the complex ones; in form rather than in substance; and in elements that are acceptable to the culture rather than in strange elements.
Furthermore, social change is easier if it is gradual. For example, it comes more readily in human relations on a continuous scale rather than one with sharp difference. This is one reason why change has not come more quickly to Black Americans as compared to other American minorities,because of the sharp difference in appearance between them and their white counterparts.
According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?
B.Disagreement with and argument about conditions tend to slow down social change.
C.Social change is more likely to occur in the material aspect of society.
D.Social change is less likely to occur in what people learned when they were young.