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1、1. That sex ratio will be favored which maximizes the nu mber of desce ndants an in dividual will haveand hence the number of gene copies transmitted.(难度系数 5)2. (This is ) A desire to throw over reality a light that never was might give away abruptly to thedesire on the part of what we might con sid

2、er a no velist-scie ntist to record exactly and con cretely thestructure and texture ofa flower .(5+)复杂+倒装+省略；3. Hardy ' s weak ness derived from his appare nt in ability to con trol the comings and goings of thesediverge nt impulses and from his un willi ngn ess to cultivate and susta in the en

3、 ergetic and risky on es.(3)4. Virginia Woolf' s provocative stateme nt about her inten tio ns in writ ingMrs. Dalloway has regularlybeenignored by the critics , since it highlights an aspect of her literary interests very different fromthe traditi onal picture of the "poetic" no velis

4、t concerned with exam ining states of reverie and visio nand with follow ing the in tricate pathways of in dividual con scious ness.(5)5. As she put it in The Common Reader ,“ It is safe to say that not a sin gle law has bee n framed or onestone set upon ano ther because of anything Chaucer said or

5、wrote ; and yet , as we read him , we areabsorbing morality at every pore .”( 5-)6. With the con clusi on of a burst activity , the lactic acid level is high in the body fluids , leav ing thelarge ani mal vuln erable to attack un til the acid is recon verted , via oxidative metabolism , by the liver

6、into glucose , which is the n sen t (i n part )back to the muscles for glycoge n resyn thesis .(4+ )7. Although Gutma n admits that forced separati on by sale was freque nt, he shows that the slavespreferenee , revealed most clearly on plantations where sale was infrequent, was very much for stable

7、mono gamy.(3+ )8. Gutma n argues convincin gly that the stability of the Black family en couraged the tran smissi on of-andso was crucial in sustaining-the Black heritage of folklore, music , and religious expression from onegeneration to another, a heritage that slaves were continually fashioning o

8、ut of their African andAmerica n experie nces.(4)9. This prefere nee for exogamy,Gutma n suggests, may have derived from West Africa n rules gover ningmarriage, which, though they differed from one tribal group to another, all involved some kind of prohibition against unions with close kin.(3+ )10.

9、His thesis works relatively well whe n applied to discrim in ati on aga inst Blacks in the Un ited States,but his definition of racial prejudice as "racially-based negative prejudgments against a groupgen erally accepted as a race in any give n regi on of eth nic competitio n, ” can be in terpr

10、eted as alsoin cludi ng hostility toward such eth nic groups as the Chin ese in Califor nia and the Jews in medievalEurope.(4+ )11. Such variati ons in size, shape , chemistry ,con duct ion speed ,excitatio n threshold, and the likeas had bee n dem on strated in nerve cells rema ined n egligible in

11、sig ni fica nee for any possiblecorrelati on with the man ifold dime nsions of men tal experie nee.(5)12. It was possible to dem on strate by other methods refined structural differe nces among neuron types ;however , proof was lack ing that the quality of the impulse or its con diti on was in flue

12、need by thesediffere nces , which seemed in stead to in flue nee the developme ntal patter ning of the n eural circuits .(5)13. Although qualitative varianee among nerve energies was never rigidly disproved, the doctrine wasgen erally aba ndoned in favor of the oppos ing view, n amely , that nerve i

13、mpulses are esse ntiallyhomoge neous in quality and are tran smitted as "com mon curre ncy" throughout the n ervous system.(4)14. Other experiments revealed slight variations in the size, number , arrangement , andinterconnection of the nerve cells, but as far as psycho neural correlations

14、 were concerned, theobvious similarities of these sen sory fields to each other seemed much more remarkable tha n any ofthe minute differences.( 4 -)15. Although some experiments show that, as an object becomes familiar , its internalrepresentationbecomes more holistic andthe recognition process cor

15、respondingly more parallel, the weight ofevideneeseems to support the serial hypothesis, at least for objects that are not notably simpleand familiar.( 4+ )16. In large part as a consequenee of the feminist movement, historians have focused a great deal ofatte nti on in rece nt years on determ ining more accurately the status of wome n in various periods.(3+ )17. If one begins by examining why ancients refer to Amazons, it becomes clear that ancient Greek-ealdescripti ons of such societies were meant not so much to r