GRE阅读练习每日一篇(二十四)_GRE阅读

GRE阅读练习每日一篇(二十四)

　　Their acceptance of the French salon as a model for their own salons

　　Their unwillingness to defy aggressively the conventions of their age

　　22. Which of the following could best be considered a twentieth-century counterpart of an eighteenth century literary salon as it is described in the passage?

　　A social sorority

　　A community center

　　A lecture course on art

　　A humanities study group

　　An association of moral reformers

　　23. To an assertion that Bluestockings were feminists, the author would most probably respond with which of the following?

　　Admitted uncertainty

　　Qualified disagreement

　　Unquestioning approval

　　Complete indifference

　　Strong disparagement

　　24. Which of the following titles best describes the content of the passage?

　　Eighteenth-Century Egalitarianism

　　Feminists of the Eighteenth Century

　　Eighteenth-Century Precursors of Feminism

　　Intellectual Life in the Eighteenth Century

　　Female Education Reform in the Eighteenth Century

　　When the same parameters and quantitative theory are used to analyze both termite colonies and troops of rhesus macaques, we will have a unified science of sociobiology. Can this ever really happen? As my own studies have advanced, I have been increasingly impressed with the functional similarities between insect and vertebrate societies and less so with the structural differences that seem, at first glance , to constitute such an immense gulf between them. Consider for a moment termites and macaques. Both form cooperative groups that occupy territories. In both kinds of society there is a well-marked division of labor . Members of both groups communicate to each other hunger, alarm, hostility, caste status or rank, and reproductive status. From the specialist s point of view, this comparison may at first seem facile or worse. But it is out of such deliberate oversimplification that the beginnings of a general theory are made.