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  3. Anthropology is the【S1】______of human beings as creatures of society. It fastens its attention upon those physical characteristi

Anthropology is the【S1】______of human beings as creatures of society. It fastens its attention upon those physical characteristi

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问题     Anthropology is the【S1】______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【S2】______.
    The distinguishing mark of anthropology among the social sciences is that for serious study it includes societies other than our own. For its purposes any social regulation of mating and reproduction is as significant as our own, though it may be【S3】______of the Sea Dyaks, and have no possible historical【S4】______to that of 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 in so far as he remains an anthropologist he is bound to avoid any weighting of one in【S5】______of 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 a【S6】______range of custom that is found in various cultures, and his object is to understand the way in which these cultures【S7】______and differentiate, the different forms through which they express themselves and the manner in which the customs of any people function in the【S8】______of the individuals.
    Now custom has 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【S9】______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【S10】______in experience and belief, and the very great varieties it may manifest.

A. narrow         B. matter            C. favor            D. study
E. that           F. relation          G. plays            H. change
I.  wide          J.  lives            K. relative         L. learn
M. prefer         N. tradition         O. shows
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