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　　考试时间：2011年4月20日 下午3:00

　　考试地点：南京大学

　　Issue114-"Humanity has made little real progress over the past century or so. Technological innovations have taken place, but the overall condition of humanity is no better. War, violence, and poverty are still with us. Technology cannot change the condition of humanity."

　　13-"Many of the world&aposs lesser-known languages are being lost as fewer and fewer people speak them. The governments of countries in which these languages are spoken should act to prevent such languages from becoming extinct."

　　Argument36-The following appeared in an article written by Dr. Karp, an anthropologist.

　　"Twenty years ago Dr. Field, a noted anthropologist, visited the island of Tertia and concluded from his observations that children in Tertia were reared by an entire village rather than by their own biological parents. However, my recent interviews with children living in the group of islands that includes Tertia show that these children spend much more time talking about their biological parents than about other adults in the village. This research proves that Dr. Field&aposs conclusion about Tertian village culture is false, and thus that the observation-centered approach to studying cultures is invalid. Because they are using the interview-centered method, my team of graduate students working in Tertia will establish a much more accurate understanding of child-rearing traditions there and in other island cultures."

　　PS：同学们有时间的话把题目都看一遍吧，起码知道那题目什么意思有没理解错。

　　考试时间：2011年4月20日 8：30

　　考试地点：南京大学

　　ISSUE 8-"It is often necessary, even desirable, for political leaders to withhold information from the public."

　　ARGUMENT173-The following is a memorandum issued by the publisher of a newsmagazine, Newsbeat, in the country of Dinn. “Our poorest-selling magazine issues over the past three years were those that featured international news stories on their front covers. Over the same period, competing news-magazines have significantly decreased the number of cover stories that they devote to international news. Moreover, the cost of maintaining our foreign bureaus to report on international news is increasing. Therore, we should decrease our emphasis on international news and rrain from displaying such stories on our magazine covers."

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　　考试时间：2011年4月20日 8：30

　　考试地点：南京大学

　　Issue144-It is the artist, not the critic,* who gives society something of lasting value.""*a person who evaluates works of art, such as novels, films, music, paintings, etc."

　　Argument37-Woven baskets characterized by a particular distinctive pattern have previously been found only in the immediate vicinity of the prehistoric village of Palea and therore were believed to have been unique to the Palean people. Recently, however, archaeologists discovered such a "Palean" basket in Lithos, an ancient village across the Brim River from Palea. The Brim River is very deep and broad, and so the ancient Paleans could only have crossed it by boat, but there is no evidence that the Paleans had boats. And boats capable of carrying groups of people and cargo were not developed until thousands of years after the Palean people disappeared. Moreover, Paleans would have had no need to cross the river—the woods around Palea are full of nuts, berries, and small game. It follows that the so-called Palean baskets were not unique to Palea.