2022年12月大学英语六级考试模拟题及答案(四)

　　52. This passage mainly centers on ______.

　　A) infants under the age of three should not be sent to nursery schools

　　B) whether children under the age of three should go to nursery schools

　　C) there is not negative long-term effect on infants who are sent to school before they are three

　　D) there is some negative effect on children who are sent to school after the age of three

　　53. The phrase "predispose to" in the first of paragraph most probably means ____

　　A) relieve B) influence favourably

　　C) dispose of D) tend to suffer

　　54. According to Bowlby's belief, it is quite possible that _____.

　　A) men's personalities will be changed to some extent through separation from their parents

　　B) early day care can delay the occurrence of mental illness in children

　　C) children will be exposed to potential negative effects from early day care later on

　　D) some long-term effects can hardly be predicted

　　55. Those who are against the conclusion drawn from Bowlby think that _____.

　　A) traditional societies separate the child from the parent at an early age

　　B ) day care does not necessarily have a negative effect on children

　　C) a child did not live together with parents among Ngoni

　　D) children do emotional problems when separated from parents

　　56. The writer concludes that ______.

　　A) it is difficult to make clear what is the right age for nursery school

　　B) it is not settled now whether early care is reasonable for children

　　C) it is not beneficial for children to be sent to nursery school

　　D) it is reasonable to subject a child above three to nursery school

　　Passage 2

　　Questions 57 to 61 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 what it includes for serious study of other societies than our own. For its purposes any social regulation of mating and reproduction is as significant as our own, though it may be that of the Sea Dyaks(文莱土著), 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 any 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 first-rate importance is the predominant role that custom plays in experience and belief, and the very great varieties it may manifest.