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　　考试时间：2011年3月14日 10:30

　　考试地点：南京大学

　　Issue153."Students should bring a certain skepticism to whatever they study. They should question what they are taught instead of accepting it passively."

　　207."Rituals and ceremonies help dine a culture. Without them, societies or groups of people have a diminished sense of who they are."

　　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 &aposPalean&apos basket in Lithos, an ancient village across the BrimRiver from Palea. The BrimRiver 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.

　　考试时间：2011年3月14日

　　考试地点：南京大学

　　Issue69.Government should place few, if any, restrictions on research and development.

　　63."To truly understand your own culture—no matter how you dine it—requires personal knowledge of at least one other culture, one that is distinctly different from your own."

　　Argument151.The following is a letter to the editor of the Atticus City newspaper. “Former Mayor Durant owes an apology to the city of Atticus. Both the damage to the River Bridge, which connects Atticus to Hartley, and the traffic problems we have long experienced on the bridge were actually caused 20 years ago by Durant. After all, he is the one who approved the construction of the bridge. If he had approved a wider and better-designed bridge, on which approximately the same amount of public money would have been spent, none of the damage or problems would have occurred. Instead, the River Bridge has deteriorated far more rapidly over the past 20 years than has the much longer DerbyBridge up the river. Even though the winters have been severe in the past several years, this is no excuse for the negligence and wastulness of Durant."