【题目】 Social change is more likely to occur in societies where there is a mixture of different kinds of people than in societies where people are similar in many ways. The simple reason for this is that there are more different ways of looking at things present in the first kind of society. There are more ideas, more disagreements in interest, and more groups and organizations with different beliefs. In addition, there is usually a greater worldly interest and greater tolerance in mixed societies. All these factors (因素)tend to promote social change by opening more areas of life to decision. In a society where people are similar in many ways, there are fewer situations for people to see the need or the chance for change because everything seems to be the same. And although conditions may not be satisfactory, they are at least customary and clear.

Within a society, social change is also likely to occur more frequently and more readily in the material aspects of the culture than in the non-material aspects, for example, in technology rather than in values; in what has been learned later in life rather than what was learned early; in the simple elements(要素)rather than in the complex ones; and in elements that are acceptable to the culture rather than in strange ones.

Besides, 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 a sharp division. 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 fellows.

【1】The underlined part “greater tolerance” in Paragraph 1 probably refers to “________”.

A. quicker adaptation to changing conditions

B. greater willingness to accept social change

C. more respect for different beliefs and behavior

D. greater readiness to agree to different conditions

【2】 Why is social change less likely to occur in a society where people are similar in many ways?

A. They are so conservative that they tend to slow down social change.

B. They can easily get what they want in the material aspect of society.

C. They are so used to their conditions that they seldom want to change.

D. They have similar needs that can be satisfied without much difficulty.

【3】 Which of the following factors probably tends to promote social change fast?

A. Different points of view.

B. Traditional values.

C. Sharp divisions in relations.

D. Similar appearances.

【4】What is this passage mainly discussing?

A. Two different kinds of society.

B. Consequences of social change.

C. The importance of social change.

D. Certain factors affecting social change.

【题目】根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Each Indian tribe(部落) had a different language.Many Indians never learned any language except their own.Do you know how Indians form different tribes talked to each other? They had two ways to talk without sound. 【1】

Sign language is a way of talking by using signs. Indians used sign language when they met strangers.In this way, they could find out whether the stranger was a friend or an enemy.In Indian sign language, signs were made with the hands.One sign meant “man”.Another meant “horse”. 2 He showed where the sun had been at the time.

Indians usually used signals when they wanted to send messages to someone far away. To make signals, an Indian might use a pony.He might use a blanket.Or he might use a mirror or fire arrows.

To signal that he had seen many animals, an Indian rode his Pony in a 1arge circle. Sometimes the Indian gave a signal like this and then went away to hide. This meant that there was danger.

3 An Indian held the corners of a blanket in his hands.Then he began to swing the blanket from side in front of him.An Indian could send many different signals with his blanket.

He could also send many signals with a mirror.He usually used the mirror to warn someone of danger. 4 At night, Indians used fire arrows for signaling.

5 They could talk to one another by using signals or sign language.

A. The blanket signal was visible from far away.

B. Now you can see that Indians didn’t need to learn each other’s language.

C. They use sign language to communicate with each other.

D. Of course, mirrors could be used only when the sun was shining.

E. To tell the time of day when something happened, an Indian pointed to the sky.

F. One way was by sign language;another way by signals.

G. An Indian use a mirror to tell that there was a danger nearby.

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