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    A small but growing group of scholars, evolutionary psychologists, are being to sketch the contours of the human mind as designed by natural selection. Some of them even anticipate the coming of a field called "mismatch theory", which would study maladies resulting from contrasts between the modern environment and the "ancestral environment". The one we were designed for. There is no shortage of such maladies to study. Rates of depression have been doubling in some industrial countries roughly every 10 years. Suicide is the third most common cause of death among young adults, after car wrecks and homicides.

    Evolutionary psychology is a long way from explaining all this with precision, but it is already shedding enough light to challenge some conventional wisdom. It suggests for example, that the nostalgia for the nuclear family of the 1950s is in some way misguided-that the model family of husband at work and wife at home is hardly a "natural" and the healthful living arrangement, especially for the wives. Moreover, the bygone lifestyles that do look fairly by commercialism. Perhaps the biggest surprise from evolutionary psychology is it depiction of the "animal" in us. Freud, and various thinkers since, saw "civilization" as an oppressive force that thwarts basic animal instincts and urges and transmutes them into psychopathology. However, evolutionary psychology suggests that a large threat to mental health may be the way civilization thwarts civility. There is a gentler, kinder side of human

nature, and it seems increasingly to be a victim of repression in modern society

Which of the following is the main topic of the passage? 

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The repeated commercials on TV distract many viewers from watching their favourite films

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His boss has had enough of his impudence, and doesn’t want to hire him any more

Most Americans don’t object _____ being called by their first names.

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The existence of many stars in the sky _______ us to suspect that there may be life on another planet

The new school complex cost ______ the city council had budgeted for.

I had a red pen but I seem to have lost it; I think I’d better buy ______ one.

I would be very rich now ________ working long ago

For this recipe to be successful, you _____ cook the meat for at least two hours in a moderate oven

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No matter what different, various music types have one thing in common: touching the hearts of  listeners

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“Why don’t you ask your boss for a rise?” he asked me 

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Charles: “Thanks so much for looking after the children!”

Lisa: “__________________” 

There is a huge amount of _______ associated with children’s TV shows today.

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DO SMALLER CLASSES REALLY HELP?

 In an experiment in Canada, ten-year-old children were put in classes of four sizes: 16, 23, 30 and 37 children in (31)____ class. Their teachers said that the smaller classes would result in more individual attention and better marks. However, when the children were (32)____, those in the smaller classes didn’t get higher marks than the others, except in mathematics. Moreover, children in the larger classes said they liked school (33)____ as much. Perhaps the most surprising result was the difference between what teachers expected and the actual results obtained. More than 90% of the teachers expected the smaller classes to (34)____ well. After teaching these smaller classes, over 80% of the teachers thought the pupils had done better. However, according to the researchers, nothing of the (35)____ happened. Class size seemed to make a difference only to the teachers’ own attitudes - and not to the results they obtained. (Source: “Longman Tests in Contexts” by J.B. Heaton)

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Such ________________ that we didn’t want to go home

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Tony has not rarely missed a play or concert since he was seventeen years old.