What would be the best title for this passage? A. Wolf Children B. Culture and Human Behavior C.——青夏教育精英家教网—

摘要： What would be the best title for this passage? A. Wolf Children B. Culture and Human Behavior C. A Director’s Diary D. Culture and Language Learning D “Other countries have a climate; in England we have weather . This statement, often made by Englishmen to describe the special weather conditions of their country, is both revealing and true. It is revealing because in it we see the Englishman insisting once again that what happens in England is not the same as what happens elsewhere. Its truth can be proved by any foreigner who stays in the country for longer than a few days. In no country other than England, it has been said, can one experience four seasons in the course of a single day! Day may break as a warm spring morning; an hour or so later black clouds may have appeared from nowhere and the rain may be pouring down. At midday conditions may be really wintry with the temperature down by about eight degrees or more centigrade. And then, in the late afternoon the sky will clear, the sun will begin to shine, and for an hour or two before darkness falls, it will be summer. In England one can experience almost every kind of weather except the most extreme.(Some foreigners, by the way, seem to have the impression that for ten months of the year the country is covered by a dense blanket of fog; this is not true.)The problem is that we never can be sure when the different types of weather will occur. Not only we get several different sorts of weather in one day, but we may very well get a period of winter in summer and a period of summer in winter. This uncertainty about the weather has had a definite effect upon the Englishman’s character; it tends to make him careful, for example. The foreigner may laugh when he sees the Englishman walking on a brilliantly sunny morning wearing a raincoat or carrying an umbrella, but he may well regret his laughter later in the day! The English weather has also helped to make the Englishman adaptable. It has been said that one of the reasons why the English colonized so much of the world was that, whatever the weather conditions they met abroad, they had already experienced something like them at home! And, of course, the weather’s being different provides a constant topic of talk. Even the most silent Englishman is always prepared to discuss the weather. And, though he sometimes complains bitterly of it, he would not, even if he could, exchange it for the more predictable climate of other lands.

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Culture means any human behavior that is learned by human society. All of the meaningful parts of a culture are passed on to different generations through “tradition” or social leaning. From this viewpoint, all human groups have a culture. Culture exists in agricultural as well as industrialized societies.

　 Culture is necessary for the survival and existence of human beings as human beings. Practically everything humans know, think, value, feel and do is learned through taking part in a social cultural system. This statement is well supported by some well-written cases. Here’s one of the cases of children growing up apart from human society. In the province of Midnapore in India, the director of a children’s home was told by the local villagers that there were “ghosts(鬼)” in the forest. Upon looking into the cases, the director found that two children, one about eight years old and the other about six years old, appeared to have been living with a group of wolves in the forest. These children were the ghosts described by the local people. In this diary, the director describes his first view of Kamala(as the older child named) and Amana(the name of the younger child).

　 Kamala was a terrible being, the head, a big ball of something coving the shoulder. Close at its heels there came another terrible creature exactly like the first but smaller in size. Their eyes were bright and sharp, unlike human eyes. They were very fond of raw milk and raw meat. Generally, as they got stronger, they began going on all fours, and afterwards began to run on all fours, just like squirrels.

　 Children learn human languages in the same way they learn other kinds of human behavior – by taking part in a cultural community. They learn a certain human language as well as certain kinds of human behavior through their membership in certain cultural community.

41.From the passage we can learn that_____.

A. Human beings can only develop human abilities if they are raised by their biological parents.

B.Amana and Kamala were raised in a forest by ghosts.

C.Human beings won’t grow up human unless they were raised by human in human society.

D.Culture refers only to the high art and classical music of a particular society

42.The “ghosts” in the Midnapore forest seen by the local villagers were_____.

A.two children, Amana and Kamala, who run on fours

B.two squirrels, Amana and Kamala, who run on fours

C.two young wolves, Amana and Kamala, whose eyes were bright and sharp

D.two children, Amana and Kamala, who were growing up in a children’s home

43.The underlined sentence “they began going on all fours” means_____.

A.they began to continue with all their four eyes

B.they started walking with their four feet

C.they began walking with their hands and feet

D.they started walking with their four hands

44.What would be the best title for this passage ?

A. A. Wolf-children　　　　　 B. Culture and human behavior

C. A director’s diary　　 D. Culture and language learning

45.Which of the following is TRUR according to the passage ?

A.The two children’s parents were killed by the wolves

B.The two children liked cooked meat

C.Culture only exists in modern society

D.Human languages are a kind of culture

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　　Culture means any human behavior that is learned by human society. All of the meaningful parts of a culture are passed on to different generations through“tradition”or social learning. From this viewpoint, all human groups have a culture. Culture exists in agricultural as well as industrialized societies.

　　Culture is necessary for the survival and existence of human beings. Practically everything humans know, think, value, feel and do is learned through taking part in a social cultural system. This statement is well supported by some well-written cases. Here's one of the cases of children growing up apart from human society. In the province of Midnapore in India, the director of a children's home was told by the local villagers that there were“ghosts”in the forest. Upon looking into the case, the director found that two children, one about eight years old and the other about six years old, appeared to have been living with a group of wolves in the forest. These children were the ghosts described by the local people. In this diary, the director described his first view of Kamala (as the older child named) and Amana (the name of the younger child).

　　Kamala was a terrible being, the head, a big ball of something covering the shoulder. Close at its heels there came another terrible creature exactly like the first, but smaller in size. Their eyes were bright and sharp, unlike human eyes. They were very fond of raw milk and raw meat. Generally, as they got stronger, they began going on all fours, and afterwards began to run on all fours, just like squirrels.

　　Children learn human languages in the same way they learn other kinds of human behavior--by taking part in a cultural community. They learn a certain human language as well as certain kinds of human behavior through their membership in a certain cultural community.

1．From the passage we can learn that _____.

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A．human beings can only develop human abilities if they are raised by their biological parents

B．Amana and Kamala were raised in a forest by ghosts

C．human beings won't grow up human unless they're raised by human in human society

D．culture refers only to the high art and classical music of a particular society

2．The“ghosts”in the Midnapore forest seen by the local villagers were _____.

[　　]

A．two children, Amana and Kamala, who ran on fours

B．two squirrels, Amana and Kamala, who ran on fours

C．two young wolves, Amana and Kamala, whose eyes were bright and sharp

D．two children. Amana and Kamala, who were growing up in a children's home

3．The underlined sentence“they began going on all fours”means“_____”.

A．they began to continue with all their four eyes

B．they started walking with their four feet

C．they began walking with their hands and feet

D．they started walking with their four hands

4．What would be the best title for this passage?

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A．Wolf-children

B．Culture and Human Behavior

C．A Director's Diary

D．Culture and Language Learning

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