LO HAGO PORQUE PUEDO, PUEDO PORQUE QUIERO Y QUIERO PORQUE ME DIJERON QUE NO PODIA

LO HAGO PORQUE PUEDO, PUEDO PORQUE QUIERO Y QUIERO PORQUE ME DIJERON QUE NO PODIA

SOCIETIES IN NEW GUINEA

 In this set or materials, the reading passage cites Margaret Mead’s research of three societies in New Guinea which leads to a conclusion, and the listening passage cites some criticisms on Mead’s studies which cast doubt on the conclusion in the reading passage.

 

The reading passage describes Margaret Mead’s studies of three different societies in New Guinea. According to her research, the first society shows that both men and women have “feminine” characteristics. In the second society, both men and women have “masculine” characteristics. In the third society, men have feminine characteristics and women have masculine characteristics. In conclusion, the author drew to the conclusion that gender characteristics come more from society than from biology. 

 

The listening passage casts doubt on the conclusion in the reading passage by showing some critics of Mead’s studies of the three societies. While it is true that the three societies in New Guinea show three different remarkable gender characteristics, as the reading passage states, it is also true that her results are too neat and it is supposed that research is not usually that tidy, as the listening passage states. It can be said that she found what she was looking for rather than looking

Polysemy

In this set of materials, the reading passage cites some information about polysemic words which leads to a conclusion, and the listening passage cites some more information about the polysemic words which add to the conclusion in the reading.

 

The reading passage defines Polysemy and gives clear examples. According to the reading passage, one word has different meanings in English. As examples, sound is a polysemic word that has different kinds of meanings; it has12 adjective meanings, 12 verb meanings, 4 meanings in verb phrases and 2 adverb meanings. Another word is set; it is has 57 noun meanings and 120 verb meanings.

The listening passage adds to the conclusion some more important information to the conclusion in the reading passage by showing that special subset of polysemic words has not only different meanings but also opposite meanings. Polysemic words have different meanings, as the reading passage states. Besides, a special group of words that has opposite meanings. For example, bolt and fast mean “cannot move” and “move quickly”. Another word, sanction means “permit” and “permit”.