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SAT阅读:Reading Comprehension Test 2 10 minutes - 7 questions The passage is taken from a description of the life of certain Pacific Islanders written by a pioneering sociologist. By the time a child is six or seven she has all the essential avoidances well enough by heart to be trusted with the care of a younger child. And she also develops a number of simple techniques. She learns to weave firm square balls from palm 5 leaves, to make pinwheels of palm leaves or frangipani blossoms, to climb a coconut tree by walking up the trunk on flexible little feet, to break open a coconut with one firm well-directed blow of a knife as long as she is tall, to play a number of group games and sing the songs which go with them, to tidy the house by 10 picking up the litter on the stony floor, to bring water from the sea, to spread out the copra to dry and to help gather it in when rain threatens, to go to a neighboring house and bring back a lighted faggot for the chiefs pipe or the cook-house fire. But in the case of the little girls all these tasks are merely 15 supplementary to the main business of baby-tending. Very small | 
