The author thinks that the trend towards a rapid rise in consumption was "undesirable" because _____ .
A.people saved less
B.people were wealthy
C.people consumed less
D.expenditures on luxuries increased
Expenditure increased on all the following EXCEPT _____ .
A.food
B.automobiles
C.education
D.entertainment
It can be inferred from the increase of fruit consumption that _____ .
A.people had to spend more on transportation and furniture
B.people were more health conscious
C.people were more money conscious
D.the price of fruit dropped dramatically
The word"registered"in the last line most probably means _____ .
A.marked
B.approached
C.listed
D.booked
From this passage,we learn that the people _____ .
A.spent more money than they earned
B.saved more money than previously
C.spent their money wisely
D.invested and consumed at an accelerated pace
Questions 61～65 are based on the following passage.
Anthropology is the study of human beings as creatures of society. It fastens its attention upon those physical characteristics and industrial techniques, those conventions and values, which distinguish one community from all others that belong to a different tradition. The distinguishing mark of anthropology among the social sciences is that it includes for serious study other societies than our own.
For its purposes and social regulation of mating and reproduction is as significant as our own, though it may be that of the Sea Dyaks, and have no possible historical relation to that of our civilization. To the anthropologist, our customs and those of a new Guinea tribe are two possible social schemes for dealing with a common problem, and in so far as he remains an anthropologist he is bound to avoid any weighting of one in favor of the other. He is interested in human behavior, not as it is shaped by one tradition, our own, but as it has been shaped by any tradition whatsoever. He is interested in a wide range of custom that is found in various cultures, and his object is to understand the way in which these cultures change and differentiate, the different forms through which they express themselves and the manner in which the customs of peoples function in the lives of the individuals.
Now custom has not been commonly regarded as a subject of any great moment. The inner workings of our own brains we feel to be uniquely worthy of investigation, but custom, we have a way of thinking, is behavior at its most commonplace. As a matter of fact, it is the other way round. Traditional custom is a mass of detailed behavior more astonishing than what any one person can ever evolve in individual actions. Yet that is a rather trivial aspect of the matter.
The fact of firstrate importance is the predominant role that custom plays in experience and belief,and the very great varieties it may manifest.
According to the passage, we can say that anthropology _____ .
A.can deal with human beings as one group of the creatures in the living world |
