(C) The laws of physics and chemistry explain a narrower range of phenomena than do the laws of biology.
(D) The laws of physics and chemistry hold throughout the universe.
(E) A scientific law is necessarily universal.
8. Hittite tablets corroborate many of the descriptions of ancient life that appear in the Iliad and even list 美国GREek cities that reportedly sent ships to Troy. What this means is that the Iliad is not creative literature, as is commonly believed, and hence not a matter for literary discussion. It is history and should be examined by historical science.
The author of the passage above makes which of the following assumptions?
Ⅰ. A work cannot be classified as creative literature if that work records historical fact.
Ⅱ. The Hittite tablets record actual events rather than legends.
Ⅲ. Cities and events mentioned in the Iliad but not in the tablets are fictitious.
(A) Ⅰ only
(B) Ⅱ only
(C) Ⅲ only
(D) Ⅰand Ⅱ only
(E) Ⅱand Ⅲ only
9. It has been argued that the consumer has benefited from agricultural technology in the United States. Consumers are spending, on the average, a decreasing proportion of their income on food. But the demand for food, especially in prosperous countries, is virtually insensitive to income, so that as real incomes rise, the amount spent of food becomes a smaller proportion of expenditure. Therefore, in order to judge whether consumers have really benefited from agricultural technology, it is necessary to know whether ____________.
Which of the following is the most logical completion of the passage above?
(A) incomes will continue to rise
(B) the proportion of income spent on food has declined more sharply than rises in real income warrant
(C) technological costs constitute a substantial portion of the cost of food production
(D) the quantity of food produced by American farmers has increased
(E) consumers will increase the proportion of their income spent on foot as food prices rise
Questions 10-15 Four couples, the Bascos, the Jeffersons, the Pardas, and the Roberts, are learning a new dance. The dancers must perform this dance in pairs. At the beginning of the dance, each of the married couples is such a pair, but there are three calls for partner changes-calls X, Y, and Z-with the following results:
When call X is made, Mr. Basco and Mr. Parda exchange partners.
When call Y is made, Mrs. Roberts and Mrs. Jefferson exchange partners.
When call Z is make, Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Parda exchange partners.
When more than one call is made, each change of partners is based on the arrangement of partners produced by the preceding call. *
10. If, since beginning of the dance, there has been one partner change, made in response to call X, which of the following must be a pair of partners?
(A) Mr. Basco and Mrs. Parda英语作文
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