山东省潍坊市临朐县2018-2019届高三上学期10月月考试题 英语(含(2)

24. When the father was ill, he _______.

A. gave away food to the poor

B. lived in North Carolina

C. came to help the poor in his hometown

D. stayed at the home of the aut hor’s brother

25. The author mentions the wine store to tell us _______.

A. the same taste as his father

B. the life in his childhood

C. the birthplace of his father

D. the experience with his father

26. The author was afraid of giving away food to the poor probably because _______.

A. he was unfamiliar with the surroundings

B. his father didn’t take good care of him

C. his father didn’t stay with him then

D. he had never met with so many poor people

27. The underlined word “arrogant” in the last parag raph probably means _______.

A. angry

B. careless

C. proud

D. wild

C

Social change is more likely to occur in societies where there is a mixture of different kinds of people than in societies where people are similar in many ways. The simple reason for this is that there are more different ways of looking at things present in the first kind of society. There are more ideas, more disagreements in interest, and more groups and organizations with different beliefs. In addition, there is usually a greater worldly interest and greater tolerance in mixed societies. All these factors (因素) tend to promote social change by opening more areas of life to decision. In a society where people are quite similar in many ways, there are fewer situations for people to see the need or the opportunity for change because everything seems to be the same. And although conditions may not be satisfactory, they are at least customary and clear.

Within a society, social change is also likely to occur more frequently and more readily in the material aspects of the culture than in the non-material aspects, for example, in technology rather than in values; in what has been learned later in life rather than in what