OG: NINETEENTH-CENTURY POLITICS IN THE UNITED STATES The Whigs, in contrast, viewed government power positively. They believed that it should be used to protect individual rights and public liberty, and that it had a special role where individual effort was ineffective. By regulating the economy and competition, the government could ensure equal opportunity. Indeed, for Whigs the concept of government promoting the general welfare went beyond the economy. In particular, Whigs in the northern sections of the United States also believed that government power should be used to foster the moral welfare of the country. They were much more likely to favor social-reform legislation and aid to education.
9.Which of the following can be inferred from paragraph 5 about variations in political beliefs within the Whig Party? ○They were focused on issues of public liberty. ○They caused some members to leave the Whig party. ○They were unimportant to most Whigs. ○They reflected regional interests.
TPO3：Architecture Modern architectural forms generally have three separate components comparable to elements of the human body; a supporting skeleton or frame, an outer skin enclosing the interior spaces, equipment, similar to the body’s vital organs and systems. The equipment includes plumbing, electrical wiring, hot water, and air-conditioning. Of course in early architecture—such as igloos and adobe structures—there was no such equipment, and the skeleton and skin were often one.
8. Which of the following correctly characterizes the relationship between the human body and architecture that is described in paragraph5? ○Complex equipment inside buildings is the one element in modern architecture that resembles a component of the human body. ○The components in early buildings were similar to three particular elements of the human body. ○Modern buildings have components that are as likely to change as the human body is. ○In general, modern buildings more closely resemble the human body than earlier buildings do.
TPO4: Deer Populations of the Puget Sound
Reduction in numbers of game should have boded ill for their survival in later times. A worsening of the plight of deer was to be expected as settlers encroached on the land, logging, burning, and clearing, eventually replacing a wilderness landscape with roads, cities, towns, and factories. No doubt the numbers of deer declined still further. Recall the fate of the Columbian white-tailed deer, now in a protected status. But for the black-tailed deer, human pressure has had just the opposite effect. Wild life zoologist Hulmut Buechner(1953), in reviewing the nature of biotic changes in Washington through recorded time, Says that "since the early 1940s, the state has had more deer than at any other time in its history, the winter population fluctuating around approximately 320,000 deer (mule and black-tailed deer), which will yield about 65,000 of either sex and any age annually for an indefinite period."
9. Which of the following statements about deer populations is supported by the information in paragraph 4?
○Deer populations reached their highest point during the 1940s and then began to decline. ○The activities of settlers contributed in unexpected ways to the growth of some deer populations in later times. ○The cleaning of wilderness land for construction caused biotic changes from which the black-tailed deer population has never recovered. ○Since the 1940s the winter populations of deer have fluctuated more than the summer populations have.
具体说来，这三种共性如下: 1.文章结构与行文逻辑类似。 第一段：第一句抽象，第二句具体，第三句具体，第四句转折（注意indeed, went beyond），提出与上文不同的现象，第五句具体 第六句具体。 第二段：第一句前半句抽象，第后半句具体，第二句具体，第三句转折提出与上文不同的现象。 第三段：第一句抽象，第二句具体，第三句次抽象，第四句具体，第五句转折，提出与上文不同的现象，第六句具体。
2.题干设计类似： 第一题：variations没有在文章直接提到，涵盖原文两种对象：policital beliefs (注意单复数)，需要自己总结。 第二题：题干关键字the relationship between the human body and architecture 并非直接来自原文，而是涵盖了原文两种对象: architecture= modern + early。 第三题：题干没有关键字，需要阅读全段。
