Anthropology is the study of human beings as creatures of society. It (51) ______ those physical characteristics and industrial techniques etc. which (52) ______ one community from all others that belong to a different (53) ______.

     The distinguishing (54) ______ of anthropology among the social sciences is that it includes for serious study societies (55) ______ our own. For its purposes, any social regulation of mating and reproduction is (56) ______ our own, though it may be that of the Sea Dyakst, and have no possible historical relation to (57) ______ our civilization. To the anthropologist, our customs and those of a New Guinea tribe are two possible social schemes for dealing with a common problem, and (58) ______ he remains an anthropologist, he (59) ______ avoid any weighting of one (60) ______ the other. He is interested in human behavior, not as it is shaped by one tradition, our own, but as it has been shaped by any tradition whatsoever. He is interested in the great (61) ______ of custom that is found in various cultures, and his (62) ______ is to understand the way in which these cultures change and (63) ______……

Now custom has not been commonly regarded as a (64) ______ of any great moment. The inner (65) ______ of our own brains we feel to be (66) ______ worthy of investigation, but custom, we have a way of thinking, is behavior at its most (67) ______. As a matter of fact, it is (68) ______. Traditional custom, (69) ______, is a mass of (70) ______ behavior more astonishing than what any one person can ever evolve in individual actions.

51. A. devote its attention upon    B. fastens its attention upon

C. direct its attention upon     D. turn its attention upon

52. A. discern  B. distinguish C. discriminate  D. differentiate

53. A. habit  B. convention  C. custom D. tradition

54. A. area  B. major   C. aim   D. mark

55. A. other than  B. except  C. like   D. beyond

56. A. as insignificant as   B. such significant as  C. as significant as  D. so significant as

57. A. one of    B. that of    C. one  D. that

58. A. so far from  B. by far  C. insofar as   D. so far

59. A. is bound to    B. is bound up in  C. is bound to up with  D. is bound with

60. A. finding favour in   B. in favour with  C. in favour against   D. in favour of

61. A. gammon  B. gamy  C. gamma   D. gamut

62. A. motivation   B. motive   C. subject  D. object

63. A. differentiate  B. discriminate   C. distinguish   D. discern

64. A. subjective  B. subject  C. object   D. objective

65. A. working-out   B. work-out  C. workings   D. work

66. A. uniquely    B. merely   C. only   D. lonely

67. A. familiarity   B. regularity  C. commonplace   D. popularity

68. A. the other way around    B. in a small way   C. in a big way   D. in the family way

69. A. come into the world    B. brought into the world

C. taken the world over    D. on top of the world

70. A. detail    B. detailed   C. the detail  D. details

KEY：B B D D A C B C A D D D A B C A C A C B