单选题Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s)
for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET. Culture itself must be transmitted, and the most effective
way is through the family. Parents teach their children the ideas and traditions
they {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}from their own parents. For this
reason the {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}became increasingly
important; the practical applications of cultural tradition, such as hunting for
food, {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}children and tending the sick,
may have been the obvious methods to use when more than one family came together
in a joint activity. Families provide friends, people who can
be trusted, and trust can be {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}through
intermarriage. Thus the whole societies come to be formed, in which the
relationships between kin act {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}}
{{/U}}guidelines for daily behavior and establish important social values.
Sometimes traditional ways even become {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}}
{{/U}}into laws. The original reasons may be lost, but a process is {{U}}
{{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}.The society survives where others fail
{{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}its members' behavior is controlled
for the benefit of all {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}laws, customs,
and traditional beliefs. Furthermore, in cultural traditions
{{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}from generation to generation,
humans have a kind of cultural capital on which to draw. By {{U}} {{U}}
11 {{/U}} {{/U}}account of past wisdom we can look into the future and
plan for events that are not always {{U}} {{U}} 12 {{/U}}
{{/U}}. The fact that we make {{U}} {{U}} 13 {{/U}}
{{/U}}repeatedly to a standard pattern, and use them to make other tools,
{{U}} {{U}} 14 {{/U}} {{/U}}us clearly from other animals. It
indicates cultural factors at work {{U}} {{U}} 15 {{/U}}
{{/U}}instinct. A sea otter may learn to break shellfish open with rocks, but it
will not {{U}} {{U}} 16 {{/U}} {{/U}}to change an unsatisfactory
stone. The difference {{U}} {{U}} 17 {{/U}} {{/U}}the power of
the human brain not only to {{U}} {{U}} 18 {{/U}} {{/U}}the
outside world, to see and react to it, but also to conceive of what it might be.
That is-to {{U}} {{U}} 19 {{/U}} {{/U}}a world unseen and
unknown, and to foresee possibilities within it. Imagination enables us to
{{U}} {{U}} 20 {{/U}} {{/U}}our own world.
【答案解析】[解析] 语义衔接
本段首句即提出观点：文化自身必须被传递，而最有效的方式就是通过家庭。本句中需要填入一个名词，______变得越来越重要。与首句相呼应，D选项即为正确答案。
A school和B society与主题无关，不符合上下文；C parents不够全面，且与下文不符。
单选题
A. educating
B. rearing
C. training
D. bringing
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] 语义衔接
分析该题可知空格内需填入一动词，与之搭配的宾语是“children”，根据前后文可知，所选内容与hunting for food和tending the sick并列，都属于人类的自然本能，“养育孩子”是自然本能，由此判定正确答案B项。
A选项、C选项和D选项不符合自然本能，需要后天有意识的锻炼，因此排除。
【答案解析】[解析] 上下文推理
将because引导的从句变为主动语态理解，就找到了control的主语，即laws，customs，and traditional beliefs。正确答案是B项，引出句子的逻辑主语。
in，from，for均不能表示被动语态中的施动者。
单选题
A. passed
B. come
C. moved
D. delivered
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 语义衔接
空处所在的部分是过去分词短语作定语，修饰cultural tradition。根据上文Culture itself must be transmitted和下文from generation to generation，可以得知文章核心概念即文化的传递，因此正确答案是A项passed。
B项come强调事物出现，C项moved指物体的移动，D项delivered没有传递下去的意思，与文章的中心无关。
【答案解析】[解析] 语义衔接+词义辨析
下文to see and react to it是对空格处的解释说明，to see and react既包含观察又包含作出反应，因此正确答案为A项perceive感知。
recognize，sense，observe的语义涵盖不全面。
单选题
A. assume
B. dream
C. imagine
D. guess
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 语义衔接+词义辨析
此处考查句子信息一致性，空处内容修饰a world unseen and unknown，只能是“想象”的世界，因此正确答案选C项。另外此空与下文中的imagination形成复现。
A项assume用于强调在某事得到证实以前，假定它是真的；B项dream意为“做梦”D项guess用于对某件事情的原因或结果等方面进行猜测。均不符合文义。
单选题
A. make
B. create
C. invent
D. design
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] 语义衔接+词义辨析
与前文的a world unseen and unknown呼应，只能是“创造我们自己的世界”，因此正确答案是B项。
A make是最常用的词，指“通过劳动制造、生产、形成或组成”；C invent指“通过想象、研究、劳动发明出前所未有的东西”；D design指“制作某物之前深思熟虑地构思”。