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  3. Anthropology is the study of human beings as creatures of society. It 1 its attention upon those physical characteristics and in

Anthropology is the study of human beings as creatures of society. It 1 its attention upon those physical characteristics and in

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问题     Anthropology is the study of human beings as creatures of society. It 1 its attention upon those physical characteristics and industrial techniques, conventions and values, which 2 one community from all others that belong to a different tradition.
    The distinguishing mark of anthropology among the social sciences is that it includes for serious study other societies 3 our own. For its purposes any social 4 of mating and reproduction is as significant as our own. To the anthropologist our customs and those of a New Guinea tribe are two possible social schemes for 5 a common problem, and in so far as he remains an anthropologist he is 6 to avoid any weighting of one 7 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 8 . He is interested in a wide 9 of custom that is found in various cultures, and his object is to understand the way in which these cultures change and 10 , the different forms through which they express themselves and the 11 in which the customs of any peoples function in the lives of the 12     Now custom has not been commonly regarded as a 13 of any great moment. The inner workings of our own brains we feel to be uniquely 14 of investigation, but custom, we have a way of thinking, is behavior at its most commonplace. 15 it is the other way round. Traditional custom is a mass of detailed behavior more astonishing than 16 any one person can ever evolve in individual actions. Yet that is a rather 17 aspect of the matter. The fact 18 first rate importance is the predominant role that custom 19 in experience and belief, and the very great varieties it may 20 .
选项 A、regulation
B、execution
C、prosecution
D、disposition
答案A
解析 of前后两部分是动宾关系，四个选项中能够与mating and reproduction构成符合逻辑的选项为[A]，regulation of mating and reproduction意为“婚配和生殖的规则”，其他选项均不符合文意和逻辑。[B]execution“实行；执行”；[C]prosecution“起诉”；[D]disposition“性情，处置”。
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