Directions:Read the following text. Choose the best word（s） for each numbered blank and mark A,B,C,or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. （10 points）
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 1 this is that there are more different ways of looking at things 2 in the first kind of society. There are more ideas, more disagreements 3 interest, and more groups and organizations with different beliefs. 4, there is usually a greater worldly interest and greater 5 in mixed societies. All these factors tend to 6 social change by opening more areas of life to 7. In a simpleracial society, there are fewer 8 for people to see the need or the opportunity 9 change because everything seems to be the same. And 10 conditions may not be satisfactory, they are at least customary and 11.
Social change is also likely to occur more 12 and readily in the material aspects of the 13 than in the nonmaterial, for example, in technology rather than in 14; in the less basic and emotional aspects of society than in their 15; in form rather than in 16; and in elements that are acceptable to the culture rather than in 17 elements.
Furthermore, social change is easier if it is 18. For example, it comes more readily in human relations on a continuous 19 rather than one with sharp differences. This is one reason why change has not come more quickly to Black Americans as compared to other American minorities, because of the sharp difference between them and their white 20.
1. [A] of[B] for[C] why[D] how
2. [A] present[B] current[C] elapsed[D] emerged
3. [A] to[B] on[C] in[D] with
4. [A] In contrast[B] In brief[C] In reality[D] In addition
5. [A] variety[B] capacity[C] tolerance[D] endurance
6. [A] detain[B] promote[C] enforce[D] hamper
7. [A] decision[B] reflection[C] meditation[D] contemplation
8. [A] conversions[B] premises[C] occasions[D] motives
9. [A] in[B] to[C] at[D] for
10. [A] as[B] if[C] when[D] though
11. [A] undisturbed[B] undisputed[C] undisguised[D] unchanged
12. [A] frequently[B] radically[C] routinely[D] sensibly
13. [A] community[B] authenticity[C] culture[D] structure
14. [A] features[B] values[C] notions[D] qualities
15. [A] techniques[B] components[C] opponents[D] opposites
16. [A] substance[B] consequence[C] competence[D] significance
17. [A] distinct[B] obsolete[C] strange[D] ordinary
18. [A] rational[B] gradual[C] irresistible[D] indispensable
19. [A] flow[B] trend[C] array[D] scale
20. [A] counterparts[B] inhabitants[C] colleagues[D] contemporaries
