One way to gain a fuller appreciation of this rich culture is to examine American Indian poetry, for poetry is in all cultures the most central and articulate of the arts. It is especially important that we study American Indian poetry as this poetry can create a context that gives cohesive expression to the crafts, the artifacts, and the isolated facts that many Americans have managed to notice willy-nilly.
6. The tone of lines 12-16 suggests that the author believes that most Americans’ knowledge of American Indian culture can best be characterized as (A) spotty and contradictory (B) stereotyped and limited (C) confused and inaccurate (D) unsystematic and superficial (E) vague and biased
Even a survey of American Indian poetry reveals a range of poetic thought and technique that defies easy generalization. Jarold Ramsey hazards a summary, however, which serves at least to give the uninitiated reader some sense of what American Indian poetry is like.
此题关键是cohesive,取它的反义。 解释:americans对idian culture的认识很D,所以"it is especially important that we study american indian poetry",这样我们才可以“gives cohesive expression ”,答案D和cohesive应该是反义。