正确答案: A

Some editors ofmainstream publishers are critical.

题目：请阅读Passage 1，完成1~5小题。 　　Passage 1 　　With her magical first novel,Garcia joins a growing chorus of talented Latino writers whose voices are suddenly reaching a far wider,more diverse audience.Unlike Latin American writers such as Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Marquee of Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa-whose translated works became popular here in the 1970s-these authors are writing in English and drawing their themes from two cultures.Their stories,from Dreaming in Cuban to Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent and Victor Villasenor's rain of GolD.offer insight into the mixture of economic opportunity and discrimination that Latinos encounter in the United States.Garcia Girls for example,is the story of four sisters weathering their transition from wealthy Dominicans to ragtag immigrants,"We didn't feel we had the beat the United States had to offer," one of the girls says,"We had only second-hand stuff,rental houses in one redneck Catholic neighborhood after another,clothes at Round Robin,a black and white TV afflicted with wavy lines." Alvarez,a Middlebury College professor who emigrated from santo Domingo when she was 10,says being an immigrant has given her a special vantage point: "We travel on that border between two worlds and we can see both points ofview." 　　With few exceptions,such as Chicano writer Rudolfo AnayA.many Hispanic-Americans have been writing in virtual obscurity for years,nurtured only by small presses like Houston's Arte Publico or the Bilingual Press in Tempe,Ariz.Only with the recent success of sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek and Oscar Hijuelos's prize-winning novel,The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love,have mainstream publishers begun opening door to other Latinos.Julie Grau,Cisneros's editor at Turtle Bay,says,"editors may now be looking more carefully at a book that before they would have deemed too exotic for the general readership." 　　But if Villasenor's experience is any indication,some editors are still wary.In 1989,Putnam gave Villasenor a $75,000 advance for the hardcover rights to rain of GolD.the compelling saga of his family's migration from Mexico to CaliforniA.But the editors,says Villasenor,wanted major changes: "They were going to destroy the book.It's nonfiction; they wanted to publish it as a novel. And they wanted to change the title to 'Rio Grande',which sounded like some old John Wayne 　　movie." After a year of strained relations,he mortgaged his house,borrowed his mother's life savings and bought back the rights to the book that had taken 10 years to write. 　　In frustration,Villasenor turned to Arte Publico.In the eight months since its release,rain of Gold has done extremely well,considering its limited distribution; 20,000 copies have been sold."If we were a mainstream publisher,this book would have been on The New York Times best-seller list for weeks," says Arte Pulico's Nicolas Kanelos.The author may still have a shot: he has sold the paperback rights to Dell.And he was just named a keynote speaker (with Molly Ivins and Norman Schwarzkopf) for the American Booksellers Association convention in May.Long before they gained this sort of attention,however,Villasenor,Cisneros and other Latino writers were quietly building devoted followings.Crossing the country,they read in local bookstores,libraries and schools.Their stories,they founD.appeal not only to Latinos- 　　who identify with them,but to a surprising number ofAnglos,who find in them a refreshingly different perspective on American life.Still,there are unusual pressures on these writers.Cisneros vividly recalls the angst she went through in writing the final short stories for Woman Hollering: "I was traumatized that it was going to be one of the first Chicano books 'out there'.I felt I had this responsibility to my community to represent us in all our diversity."

解析：推断题。第三段第一句提到“But if Villasenor's experience is any indication，some editors are still wary”，wary的意思是“机警的，谨慎的”，与A项中critical的意思是对应的。接下来是具体说明“But the editors…wanted major changes:‘They were going to destroy the book.It's nonfiction; they wanted to publish it as a novel.And they wanted to change the title to‘Rio Grande’…”，由此可以推断出A项正确。B、C两项文中没有提到相关内容。结合该段最后一句“Aftera year of strained relations，he…bought back the rights to the book that had taken 10 years to write.”可知，作者最终买回了这本书的版权，也就是说作者并不同意出版商把它改编成小说出版的做法，D项说法不正确。

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[单选题]如果一个家长想用看电视作为强化物奖励儿童认真按时完成作业的行为，最合适的安排应该是( )。

只有按时完成作业后才能看电视

解析：先要有适当的行为（按时做作业），然后才能给予强化物（看电视）的刺激以增加以后这种行为（按时做作业）出现的可能性。

[单选题]朱同学在得知父亲因车祸离世的消息后悲痛欲绝、痛哭流涕，还出现了短暂的意识丧失，这种强烈的爆发式的情绪状态属于( )。

激情

解析：激情是一种强烈的、爆发式的、短暂的情绪状态，通常是由对个人有重大意义的实践引起的，往往带有特定的指向性，伴随着生理变化和明显的外部行为表现。处于激情状态时，人的认识范围狭窄，理智分析能力受到限制，控制自己的能力减弱。朱同学在得知父亲因车祸离世的消息后悲痛欲绝、痛哭流涕，这种强烈的爆发式的情绪状态属于激情。故本题正确答案是B。

[单选题]在学生考试失败以后，容易使学生对未来失去信心的归因方式是( )归因。

能力

解析：学生在考试失败后，将失败归因为能力，认为是自己能力不够，这容易使学生对未来失去信心。

[单选题]"外行看热闹，内行看门道"体现了知觉的( )。

理解性

解析：人在知觉某一事物时，总是利用已有的知识和经验去认识它，并把它用词语标志出来，这种感性认识阶段的理解就叫知觉的理解性。