What do you think is the tone in which the author has described his son?
A. Regret.
B. Relief.
C. Worry.
D. Approval.
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What does the woman imply when she tells the man "Don't get your hopes up"?
A. The director probably isn't able to make an exception.
B. The director probably won't see him.
C. The director usually isn't very helpful.
D. Part-time students aren't the director's responsibility.
Which of the following reasons CANNOT explain why Meredith Vieira was on the list of the 100 most powerful women in the world?
A. Because she's going to be taking the role of the Today Show from Wednesday.
Because she's accomplished a lot over the course of her many years in this profession.
C. Because she's going to be so influential in what she does.
D. Because she is an award-winning newswoman, and she's spent nine years on the view.
Which of the following statements is NOT tree according to the passage?
A. Increased knowledge may well fuel a rising demand for travel.
B. People today have become very attached to their automobiles.
C. The fuel cell is at the top of the list of alternative technologies.
D. The Internet will have great impact on transportation.
In The Open and Closed Mind, Milton Rokeach poses the problem of cultural understanding in its simplest form, but one that can readily demonstrate the complication of communication between cultures. It is called the "Denny Doodlebug Problem. "Readers are given all the rules that govern this culture: Denny is an animal that always faces North, and can move only by jumping; he can jump large distances or small distances, but can change direction only after jumping four times in any direction; he can jump North, South, East or West, but not diagonally. Upon concluding a jump his master places some food three feet directly West of him. Surveying the situation, Denny concludes he must jump four times to reach the food. No more or less. And he is right. All the reader has to do is to explain the circumstances that make his conclusion correct.
The large majority of people who attempt this problem fail to solve it, despite the fact that they are given all the rules that control behavior. in this culture. If there is difficulty in getting inside the simplistic world of Denny Doodlebug—where the cultural code has already been broken and handed to us—imagine the complexity of comprehending behavior. in societies whose codes have not yet been deciphered, and where even those who obey these codes are only vaguely aware and can rarely describe the underlying sources of their own actions.
We acquire the greater part of our cultural codes by ______.
A. creating a universe of discourse
B. imitating the behavior. of others, especially those of the previous generation
C. sharing the same experiences with other people
D. taking in the various information we're given with no discrimination