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单选题According to the passage, urban Japanese

A．enjoy more the convenience of modem life than rural people
B．have realized the objective set down a decade ago
C．cherish more the chance to live with other relatives
D．are more likely to be the victim of the current life-styles

参考答案：D进入在线模考

定位：根据题干信息词urban Japanese定位到最后一段。
解析：解答该题，需理清最后一段的行文脉络。该段第一句为本段中心句，在讨论日本的生活方式时指出： “在日本，问题绝对不是你是否喜欢自己的工作和生活，而仅仅是你能承受多大的负荷。”之后文章举在城市居住和生活的日本人为例说明了这种生活方式给他们带来的不便乃至痛苦。由此可见，在城市居住和生活的日本人更可能成为目前日本生活方式的牺牲品。故D项符合文意，为正确答案。

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1Questions are based on the following passage.
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Changes in the choice of language, then, might modify behavior. Today gasoline tracks are generally labeled "flammable (易燃的)". The in- prefix was often taken as equivalent, to that of words like"inanimate" and"inaccurate", where in- means "not". It is actually the in- of words like"intense" and, "inflect", where it
strengthens the meaning. The word "inflammable", then, means "highly flammable". The faulty interpretation of language, however, determined the attitudes of many speakers, who thereupon adjusted their behavior in relation to the language. Prudent truck owners have taken notice and changed the warning to "flammable".
Such observations led Whorf to a concern with deeper patterns of language, such as the use of tenses in the languages of Europe. Tense is the linguistic expression of time. English and other European languages generally require their speakers to identify the time of an event, whether present: It's raining; past: It rained; or future: It will rain. By contrast, many languages, such as the Hopi language of New Mexico, lack expression for tense. Nor do such languages objectify (使具体化.time. In Hopi one cannot count day, minutes, years as though they were
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Comparing such languages Whorf proposed that our use of tense, "our objectified view of time is favorable to historicity ( 史实性 .and to everything connected with the keeping of records. " That is to say, because of the patterns for referring to time in English and other languages, their speakers maintain records and emphasize
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one learns.
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whether the hypothesis is valid and also whether one should assume a weak or strong position with regard to it. Clearly we are deeply tied to our native language. But whether it regulates our perceptions or our view of the world is still an open question.
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B．It can influence our concepts and actions.
C．It contributes to a creation of new language systems.
D．It becomes possible to distinguish differences between languages.

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2The case of the label "flammable" proves that

A．language can indeed affect our choices of actions
B．prefixes if used incorrectly may lead to disaster
C．some truck drivers are potential experts of languages
D．misunderstanding can happen even among workers

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3It can be inferred that the use of tense

A．is completely unnecessary in some local languages
B．converts abstract ideas into objective things
C．helps avoid certain ambiguity in concepts or ideas
D．makes it possible to modernize Hopi language

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