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  3. The concept of "environment" is certainly difficult and may even be misunderstood; but we have no handy substitute. It seems sim

The concept of "environment" is certainly difficult and may even be misunderstood; but we have no handy substitute. It seems sim

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问题     The concept of "environment" is certainly difficult and may even be misunderstood; but we have no handy substitute. It seems simple enough to distinguish between the organism and the surrounding environment and to separate forces acting on an organism into those that are internal and biological and those that are external and environmental. But in actual practice this system breaks down in many ways, because the organism and the environment are constantly interacting so that the environment is modified by the organism and vice versa.
    In the case of man, the difficulties with the environmental concept are even more complicated because we have to deal with man as an animal and with man as a bearer (持有者) of culture. If we look at man as an animal and try to analyze the environmental forces that are acting on the organism, we find that we have to deal with things like climate, soil, plants, and such-like factors common to all biological situations; but we also find, always, very important environmental influences that we can only class as "cultural", which modify the physical and biological factors. But man, as we know him, is always a bearer of culture; and if we study human culture, we find that it, in turn, is modified by the environmental factors of climate and geography. We thus easily get into great difficulties from the necessity of viewing culture, at one moment, as a part of the man and, at another moment, as a part of the environment.
In this passage, the author is primarily concerned with______.
选项 A、the interpretation of the term "environment"
B、the discussion on organisms and biological environment
C、the comparison between internal and external factors influencing man
D、the evaluation of man’s influence on culture
答案A
解析 本题是一道考查文章主旨题，要求概括文章中作者的主要观点。利用浏览式阅读和跳跃式阅读法，从全文内容来看，尤其是文章的第一句话“环境这个概念很难理解，而且常常会被误解”，我们可以看出作者在此文中主要是考虑如何解释“环境”这个概念。所以本题的正确答案应是A。
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