During the past three years, the staff members of the Smithsonian Institution's Family Folklore Project have interviewed hundreds of persons about their family folklore. To prepare for these interviews we drew upon our academic backgrounds in folklore and American studies, and upon our personal backgrounds as members of families. In addition, we reviewed the major instruction guides in genealogy, oral history, family history, and folklore fieldwork. Although these publications were all helpful in some way, no single book was completely adequate since family folklore combines aspects of all the above disciplines. Over time we have developed guidelines and questions that have proven successful for us; we hope that the following suggestions will be helpful to anyone who wishes to collect the folklore of his or her own family.

　　76. What would be the topic of the paragraph that would follow this one?

　　A. How to gather family folklore

　　B. History of the Smithsonian Institution

　　C. A description of genealogy

　　D. Useful books on family folklore

　　77. What can be inferred about the researchers who conducted the interviews?

　　A. They were mathematicians and physicists.

　　B. They were historians and sociologists.

　　C. They had children.

　　D. They wrote books.

　　78. The purpose of this passage is to

　　A. motivate

　　B. berate

　　C. instruct

　　D. cajole

　　79. The assumption of this passage is that

　　A. anyone can successfully interview people about their family folklore without prior training.

　　B. American history is inherent in the family folklore of Americans.

　　C. American history and folklore of Americans have no connections.

　　D. no guidelines are needed in the interviews.

　　80. According to the passage, which kind of instructional guide was NOT consulted as a source?

　　A. Clinical sociology

　　B. Genealogy guides

　　C. Oral history

　　D. Folklore fieldwork

　　Questions 81-86 are based on the following passage.

　　Every summer, Jean Piaget retreats to his cabin in the Alps, where he spends most of his days analyzing the mass of research data generated over the past year at his Center for Genetic Epistemology. During long walks along the mountain trails, he mulls over the latest experimental results, and in the cool mountain evenings, he formulates his conclusions. With the approach of fall, he will descend from the mountain, manuscript for a book and several journal articles in hand. This time-honored procedure of careful observation followed by seclusion for thought and synthesis, has enabled him to become the most prolific, if not the most famous psychologist of the century.

　　Piaget has only been widely known in this country since the 1960s, when his works were translated from their original French. But he has been recognized as an expert in the field of cognitive development in Europe since the 1930s. In fact, Piaget's publishing career can be traced to the year 1906, when as a child of ten, he published his careful notes on the habits of an albino sparrow he observed near his home in Switzerland. After his precocious debut as an ornithologist, he took an after-school job at the local natural history museum, soon becoming an expert on mollusks. At the age of sixteen he was recommended for a curator's position at the natural history museum in Geneva, but declined in favor of continuing his education.