GMAT阅读理解例题-智课教育.pdfVIP

智 课 网 G M A T 备 考 资 料 GMAT阅读理解例题-智课教育 GMAT阅读理解是GMAT语文考查的一部分知识。本文为考生准备 了一道GMAT阅读理解例题，希望能够帮助考生备考GMAT阅读。文中 内容仅供参考。 阅读理解考核考生对此阅读理解题目进行分析和归纳总结的能力。 说明 此部分的试题，是基于某一篇文章的内容。阅读文章后，为每个试 题选出最佳的答案。根据文章表达或暗示的内容，回答文章后面所有试 题。 例题 Schools expect textbooks to be a valuable source of information for students. My research suggests, however, that textbooks that address the place of Native Americans within the history of the United States distort history to suit a particular cultural value system. In some textbooks, for example, settlers are pictured as more humane, complex, skillful, and wise than Native Americans. In essence, textbooks stereotype and depreciate the numerous Native American cultures while reinforcing the attitude that the European conquest of the New World denotes the superiority of European cultures. Although textbooks evaluate Native American architecture, political systems, and homemaking, I contend that they do it from an ethnocentric, European perspective without recognizing that other perspectives are possible. One argument against my contention asserts that, by nature, textbooks are culturally biased and that I am simply underestimating childrens ability to see through these biases. Some researchers even claim that by the time students are in high school, they know they cannot take textbooks literally. Yet substantial evidence exists to the contrary. Two researchers, for example, have conducted studies that suggest that childrens attitudes about particular cultures are strongly influenced by the textbooks used in schools. Given this, an ongoing, careful review of how school textbooks depict Native Americans is certainly warranted. Which of the following would most logically be the topic of the paragraph immediately following the passage? (A) specific ways to evaluate the biases of United States history textbooks (B) the