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Anthropology is the study of human beings as creatures of society, it fastens its attention upon those physical characteristics

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问题     Anthropology is the study of human beings as creatures of society, it fastens its attention upon those physical characteristics and industrial techniques, those conventions and values, which distinguish one community from all others that belong to a different tradition.
    This distinguishing mark of anthropology among the social sciences is that it includes for serious study other societies than our own. For its purposes any social regulation of mating and reproduction is as significant as our own, though it may be that of the Sea Dyaks, and have no possible historical relation to that of our civilization. To the anthropologists, our customs and those of a New Guinea tribe are two possible social schemes for dealing with a common problem, and in so far as he remains an anthropologist he is bond to avoid any weighting of one in favor of the other. He is interested in human behavior, not as it is shaped by one tradition, but as it has been shaped by any tradition whatsoever. He is interested in a wide range of custom that is found in various cultures, and his object is to understand the way in which these cultures change and differentiated, the different forms through which they express themselves and the manner in which the customs of any peoples function in the lives of the individuals.
    Now custom has not been commonly regarded as a subject of any great moment. The inner workings of our own brains we feel to be uniquely worthy of investigation, but custom, we have a way of thinking, is behavior at its most commonplace. As a matter of fact it is the other way round. Traditional custom is a mass of detailed behavior more astonishing than what any one person can ever evolve in individual actions. Yet that is a rather trivial aspect of the matter, the fact of first-rate importance is the predominant role that custom plays in experience and belief, and the very great varieties it may manifest.
Which of the following does the author most probably agree with?
选项 A、The goal of the anthropologist is to understand the way in which people express themselves.
B、The anthropologist tries to understand why cultures are carried on without any change.
C、The anthropologist’s professional interest is as wide as the variety of customs.
D、A11 of the above.
答案C
解析 该题属观点态度题，虽然不能根据题干关键词定位，但根据四个选项的关键词anthro一pologist可定位到原文第二段第三句，根据第三句至第五句文义可知：对人类学家来说，我们的风俗和新几内亚部落的风俗只不过是解决同一问题的两种社会体系而已，而且只要他是人类学家，那他就应该避免对任何文化或习俗产生偏好。并不是只有某一种传统的塑造才会使他对人类行为感兴趣，而是任何一种都会使他感兴趣。他感兴趣于不同文化的不同习俗……。通过对比选项可知，选项[C]符合文义，为正确答案。
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