52. Which of the following words best describes the nature of social sciences nowadays?
(A) diversified
(B) generalized
(C) panoramic
(D) unified
(E) chaotic

48. Which of the following statements can be validated by the passage above? (A) Blackness is synonymous with victimization. (B) Academic achievement is a white prerogative. (C) Ethnic consciousness outweighs individualism. (D) Middle-class values encourage segregation. (E) Retreat from achievement hampers black community.

49. What can be safely concluded about Shelby Steele? (A) He views racial identification as a predictable source of social problem. (B) He traces racial identification among blacks back to the civil-rights movement. (C) He believes that a monolithic form of racial identification is recommendable. (D) He confirms that blacks are largely disadvantaged in mainstream society. (E) He feels strongly hostile to white Americans, who are, mostly, racists.

50. What does the author conclude about some black adolescents? (A) They are persistent in their racial identity. (B) They take an adversative stance towards the mainstream. (C) They are mostly low-achievers in academic performance. (D) They view themselves as embattled minority. (E) They believe that success is unattainable.

51. What would be the best title for this essay? (A) The Color of Success (B) The White Man＇s Burden (C) Keeping Blacks Down (D) Black is beautiful (E) Against Acting White

53. Which of the following will not be included in the curriculum of social sciences? (A) political campaign in Europe (B) organizational psychology (C) theory of macroeconomics (D) computation and corpus linguistics (E) cultures of Latin America

54. Which statement below is incorrect about today＇s social scientists? (A) They refute the idea that events occurring in human society are largely accidental. (B) They assert that there are regular patterns in most human activities. (C) They employ the ideas of class and kinship to describe human activities. (D) They usually stay within the scope of their own ideas in their research. (E) They have distinctive concepts and terminologies for their own disciplines.

55. What can we infer from the passage? (A) People in the past tended to be faltering in their religious faith. (B) There used to be an attempt to search for a single unified social science. (C) Social science has branched out widely since it first started in the nineteenth century. (D) Human societies were dominated by a supreme being in ancient times. (E) People no longer believe in God as knowledge became more specialized.

56. What is the major point of this article? (A) Austen＇s novels have often been adapted into films. (B) Austen＇s protagonist in Mansfield Park is a carrier of traditional patriarchal values. (C) Rozema＇s film is completely different from Austen＇s original novel. (D) Rozema＇s Fanny is vivacious. (E) Rozema has brought up the issue of slavery in her film.

57. The author claims that “Rozema creates a screen heroine we can root for.＂ Here “root for＂ is closest in meaning to _____. (A) apply force to (B) antipathetic to (C) rein in (D) take sides with (E) get to the root

58. This article would be most likely to be read in which of the following courses? (A) history (B) sociology (C) psychology (D) literature (E) astrology