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12、age3Readi ngTest 12Passage3Readi ngTest 12Passage4Readi ngTest 12Passage4Readi ngTest 12Passage4Readi ngTest 12Passage4Readi ngTest 12Passage4说明句子中的标红部分为：句中的连ACT阅读长滩长难句原文Later, whenthey were teenagers in the late forties and still on the border, Serena was criticized for wearing clothesthat were too

13、 bright andimmodest and Josie was toldthat if her hair got any stringier because sherefused to wash it every day, the In dia ns were going to claim heras theirown and drag her off to Ysleta, or worse yet, to San Elizario, eve n farther into the lower valley.Only Ofelia, the eldest of the three siste

14、rs, came close to fulfilling their mother Eduviges' dream of produci ng delicate and tactful young wome n worthy of their conn ecti on to the An gel family n ame and str ong eno ugh to en dure the rigorous dema nds of marriage and motherhood.Even before the age of reason,which the Church had set

15、 at seven yearsold,the girls learned very quicklythat their mother's side of the family-the Angelclan- was more important than their father's, the plain old Salazars.San cho Salazar, ever wary of large con cepts, ig nored his relatives altogether and devoted himself to his wife, his daughter

16、s,and, as ofte nas possible, to hunting and fishing in the mountains and lakes of northern Chihuahua.And except for the annual Christmas Eve get-together, they sawthat theirfather made certa in he had somethi ng else to dowhe never his wife remin dedhim that the An gels were gatheri ng at so-a nd-so

17、's house to celebratesomethi ng or other.Josie was not able to un dersta ndwhat a woma n with two no ses like a balland a man with two noses like a violin had to do with being a lady.By 1840 it was necessaryfor all the presidential aspirantsto do whatAn drew Jacks on had donewhen he first en ter

18、ed the husti ngs: bid forthe support of the masses.He had, as governor of the Indiana Territory, led the forcesthat engagedthe Shaw nee chief, Tecumseh, in a battle at Tippeca noe in 1811;butthough he beat off the Indians, his men suffered heavy casualties in the encoun ter.Whenthey passed over Henr

19、y Clay and picked Harris on to run for Preside nt at their conven ti on in Harrisburg, Penn sylva nia, in December 1839, the Baltimore Republica n gleefully reported a remark made about the Whig can didate by one of Clay's frie nds: "Give him a barrel of hard cider and a pension of two thou

20、sand a year and, my word for it, he will sit the remain der of his days in a log cab in, by the side of a sea-coal' fireand study moral philosophy."Whig leaders quickly tur ned the sn eer into a sloga n and bega n prese nting Harris on as the log-cabi n-hard-cider can didate,who un like the

21、high-falut in' Martin Van Buren, was pla in, simple, dow n-to-earth, and very much of, by, and for the people.The Democrats pointed outthat it was a Whig, not a Democrat who,had first cast the slur, but the Whigs paid no attention to themEstimates of crowds assembled for Whig rallies ran ged fro

22、m one thousa nd to one hun dred thousa nd and sometimes were reck oned in terms of acreage covered.In the late 1700s and early 1800s New Orlea ns was largely occupied by theFrench,who maintained a high regard for the arts and enjoyed thepleasures of music and dancingmore than their more conservative

23、 northernn eighbors.Another factor that made New Orleans a good place for jazz to form was the city's hav ing bee n a magnet for freedand escaped slaves in the Souththroughout the 1800s.Not only did New Orleans have a festive French tradition contributing to an atmosphere of pleasure, it also ha

24、d its role as host to travelers from all over the world because the city was a seaport,and it was a cen terfor commerce because of its nearness to the mouth of the Mississippi River, a flourishing trade route for America and the Caribbean."The district", as musicians called it, eventually

25、became known as Storyville, in hornor of an alderman named Storywhose idea it was tosection off a portion of the town in 1897 and limit prostitution to that area.Another factorthat promoted the mixing of African and European traditionswas a con siderable amount of sex and in ter-marriageoccurri ng i

26、n NewOrleans between blacks and whites prior to the mid-1800s.With memories of that catastrophe still etched in people's min ds,it is nowon der that Dutch pla nn ers took a kee n in terest whe n, a quarter cen tury later,scientists began suggestingthat global warming could cause theworld's o

27、cea ns to rise by several meters.In creases in sea level could be expected to come about for various reas on s,all tied to the heat ing of the earth's surface,which most expertsdeem an in evitable con seque nee of the moun ti ng abundance of carb on dioxide and other heat-trapp ing "gree nh

28、ouse gases" in the air.Some scie ntists bega n war ning more tha n 20 years agothat global warmi ngmight cause a precariously placed store of froze n water in An tarctica to melt,leadi ng to a calamitous rise in sea level-perhaps five or sixmeters' worth.Scie ntists tra ined in many separat

29、e discipli nes are attempt ing to glea n answers using a variety of experimental approaches,ranging fromdrillinginto the Antarctic ice capto bouncing radar off the ocean from space.thatBetwee n about 110,000 and 130,000 years ago, whe nthe last shared an cestors of all huma ns probably fanned out of

30、 Africa into Asia and Europe, the earth experieneed a climatic history strikingly similar to what has transpired in the past 20,000 years, warming abruptly from the chill of a great ice age.Some prodigy who lived in the north end of town had given a recital was covered by the local papers,and Miss L

31、inden's picture had beenfeatured as his teacher.I sat stiffly in a straight-backed chair and liste nedas Daddy calmlycited Mother's death, my non existe nt tale nt, his great dreams for me and, incidentally, the multimillion-dollar property in his name, the timber rights to which at this ver

32、y mome nt no less tha n five major lumber compa nies were tur ning purple competi ng for.I don't know whether it was kindness or pitythat motivated her andI have trouble mak ing that disti ncti on eve n to this day.And rd answer, yes, it was true,but there are certain uses to which thetruth can

33、be put, certain ways of manipulating it,that come dangerouslyclose to lyi ng.I ended up believing in them,while at the same time retaining myskepticism about them- which amoun ted to a form of non belief, without the risk.I was terrified that she would term in ate them because of my lack of progress

34、, yet could thi nk of no way to overcome the turmoil in sidethatkept me from progress ing.One reas on for the extraord inary delay in reachi ng a decisi onwas thevigorous opposoti on to the perma nent preservati on of wilder ness from wood-us ing in dustries, oil, graz ing and mining in terests, mos

35、t professi onal foresters, some gover nment bureaus, and prop onents of mass recreati on with pla ns for mecha ni zed access to outdoor areas.Adheri ng to the multiple-use con cepti on of the function of the public domain, they contendedthat the bill locked up millions of acres in thein terests of a

36、 small nu mber of campers.The ambivale nee such a stateme nt reflects is un dersta ndable in the light of the history of the America n attitude toward wilder ness: Appreciati on is so relatively new that it is difficult to deny the claims of civilization -especially with the fin ality of the wilder

37、ness system.But give n the almost total dominance of civilizati on, he was compelled to work for sav ing the remnants of un developed land.True multiple use, they conten ded, made sense only for the public doma in as a whole, providi ng forecono mic uses on some porti ons and wilder nessrecreati on

38、on others.Wassily Kandin sky, the first twen tieth-ce ntury pain ter to plunge into abstractionism, has recordedhow the discoverythat there were bodiessmaller tha n atoms caused him to rethi nk the whole problem of reality in n ature and art.No cultural group was more isolated and estra nged from sc

39、ience than the avant-garde artists.We must also assume that changes in the concept of "reality", which the scientist developed and the philosopher sensed, also affected the artist.In the 1890s, and in creas in glyas we approach 1900,the word "n ew" appears so freque ntly and in s

40、o many connectionsas toattract the historia n's atte nti on- the "new humor", the "new realism", the "new woman", the "new drama", and the "new art".Furthermore , tech no logy with its geometric patter ns and the optical effects that came with sp

41、eed-the tra in, the motorcar, the airpla ne-were not without suggestive in flue nce on the artists.thatThe generation of avant-garde artiststhat now began to gain attentionwan ted to escape from bon dage to the nin etee nth cen tury; they felt traditional modes and canons were antiquated if not hypo

42、critical; they were skeptical and wan ted to arouse str ong feeli ng in their audie nee, to destroy lethargy, to participate in a cultural revoluti on.The pun ctuated equilibrium hypothesis attempts to expla in a curious feature of the fossil record-onethat has been familiar to allpale on tologists

43、for more tha n a cen tury,but has usually bee n ign ored.The evolution of North American horses,which was once presented as aclassic textbook and museum example of gradual evoluti on, is now providing equally compelling evidence for punctuated equilibrium.But close exam in ati on of those fossil dep

44、osits now reveals a somewhat different story, onethat is wonderfully displayed in therece ntly rearra nged exhibit of horse evoluti on at New York's America n Museum of Natural History.If it seems difficult to imagine how major changes could occur rapidly, con sider this: an alterati on of a sin

45、 gle gene in flies is eno ugh to turn a no rmal fly with a sin gle pair of wings into one that has two pairs of win gs.No sig nifica nt disc on ti nuities were observed,leadi ng Sheldo n to con cludethat environmental conditions were quite stable during that period.Early in the day Dorothea had retu

46、rned from the schoolwhich she had setgoing in the village,and was tak ing her usual place in the sitti ng-roomwhich divided the bedrooms of the sisters, bent on finishing a plan for some buildi ngs (a kind of work which she delighted in),whe n Celia, whohas bee n watchi ng her with a hesitati ng des

47、ire to propose somethi ng, said-Celia ' s face had the shadow of a pouting expression in it, the full prese nee of the pout was bei ng kept back by a habitual awe of her sister.The casket was soon ope n before them,and the various jewelsspread out mak ing a bright parterre on the table.It was no

48、 great collect ion,but a few of the orn ame nts were really ofremarkable beauty, the finestthat was obvious at first being a necklaceof purple amethysts set in exquisite gold work,and a pearl cross withfive brilliants in it.“ It ' s lovely, ” said Dorothea,slippingthe ring on her finelyturned fi

49、n ger and holdi ng it towards the win dow on a level with her eyes.The fact that furnaces had to be kept going continuously was decisive maintaining the twelve-hour day.Several other factors, unique to the Un ited States conditioned the welfare of labor.But it is clear thatfor two or three generatio

50、ns the open land diddrain off the surplus populati on of the coun tryside, the villages, and even the cities, and the immigrants from abroad.With the rise in the cost of farming and the disappearanee of good cheap land, surplus populati on did stay in the in dustrial areas.From the South, after the

51、turns of century,cametens of thousands ofwilli ng blacks ready to take their places beside the Poles, Italia ns, and Hun garia ns.Whereas medieval scientists did not doubtthat certain precepts ofthe Church or the existe nee of God con stituted true kno wledge, scienee today accepts as knowledge only

52、that can be verifiedscie ntifically.Whe n many an cie nt classics were rein troduced into Europe (by means of translation into Latin from the Arabic,which was translated from theGreek) from Moslem Spain, new pate ns of thought bega n to emerge: these were con siderably expa nded by the Crusades.The

53、Scholastics were the group of clericswho un dertook the task ofappl ying logic and philosophy to theology.Not untilthe thirteenth century did the Latin translations of Aristotleand Averroes make their full impact.Nominalists said that divine matters could be explained only by mystical faith whereas

54、tan gible objects were capable of being studies logically.This tech nique of radiocarb on dati ng,which was developed by an America nphysical chemist, Willard F. Libby , permits the dat ing of samples containing carb on with an accuracy of around 200 years.The radiocarb on is oxidized to carb on dio

55、xide,which is thoroughlymixed with the non radioactive carb on dioxide in the atmosphere, through the action of win ds.The carb on dioxide, radioactive and non radioactive alike is absorbed by pla nts, which fix the carb on in their tissues.Whena pla nt or an imal dies, the amount of radioactivity o

56、f the carb on in its tissues is determ ined by the amount of radiocarb on prese nt, which corresponds to the concentration in the atmosphere.The method was checked by measureme nt of carb on from the heartwood of a gia nt Sequoia tree, for which thaw nu mber of tree rings showed that 2,928 years had

57、 passed since the heartwood was laid down.I reck oned I was scared now, too;but in a minute I see I wasmistaken that is,after the first jolt, as you may say,whe n my breath sort of hitched, be being so un expected;but right awayafter,I see I wasn ' t scared of him worth bothering about.There wasn' t no color in his face,where his face s