3. According to the passage, collecting life stories can be a useful*3 methodology because直接事实题（最后一段）
(A) life stories provide deeper insights into a culture than the hypothesizing*3A of academics who are not members of that culture比猜测好
(B) life stories can be collected easily and they are not subject to invalid interpretations
(C) ethnologists have a limited number of research methods from which to choose
(D) life stories make it easy to distinguish between the important and unimportant features of a culture（A）
(E) the collection of life stories does not require a culturally knowledgeable investigator
4. Information in the passage suggests that which of the following may be a possible way to eliminate bias in the editing of life stories?改善题（第二、三段）
(A) Basing all inferences made about the culture on an ethnological theory
(B) Eliminating all of the emotion-laden information reported by the informant
(C) Translating the informant’s words into the researcher’s language
(D) Reducing the number of questions and carefully specifying the content of the questions that the investigator can ask the informant（E）
(E) Reporting all of the information that the informant provides regardless of the investigator’s personal opinion about its intrinsic value第二个观点取非
5. The primary purpose of the passage as a whole is to主题题（写法性）
(A) question an explanation
(B) correct a misconception
(C) critique中性的评价 (transitive verb REVIEW, CRITICIZE) a methodology评述某人方法
(D) discredit an idea（C）
(E) clarify an ambiguity
6. It can be inferred from the passage that a characteristic of the ethnological research on Native Americans conducted during the nineteenth century was the use of which of the following?(answer: they were after linguistic or anthropological data)
(A) Investigators familiar with the culture under study
(B) A language other than the informant’s*6B for recording life stories语言不是自己的语言
(C) Life stories as the ethnologist’s primary source of information
(D) Complete transcriptions of informants’ descriptions of tribal beliefs（B）
(E) Stringent guidelines for the preservation of cultural data
7. The passage mentions which of the following as a factor that can affect the accuracy of ethnologists’ transcriptions of life stories?（第二、三段的缺点取非）
(A) The informants’ social standing within the culture
(B) The inclusiveness of the theory that provided the basis for the research
(C) The length of time*7C the researchers spent in the culture under study
(D) The number of life stories collected by the researchers（C）
(E) The verifiability of the information provided by the research informants
8. It can be inferred from the passage that the author would be most likely to agree with which of the following statements about the usefulness of life stories*8 as a source of ethnographic information?
(A) They can be a source of information about how people in a culture view the world*8A.
(B) They are most useful as a source of linguistic information.
(C) They require editing and interpretation before they can be useful.
(D) They are most useful as a source of information about ancestry.（A）
(E) They provide incidental information rather than significant insights into a way of life.
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