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发表于 2015-8-6 15:24:36 |只看该作者 |倒序浏览

做了一下这道机经阅读竟然两道题全错了。。。。全错了。。。整个人都不好了。。。

而且想不通。。。拿上来想和大家讨论一下。。。
Although passenger pigeons, now extinct, were abundant in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century America, archaeological studies at twelfth-century Cahokian sites in the present-day United States examined household food trash and found that traces of passenger pigeon were quite rare. Given that the sites were close to a huge passenger pigeon roost documented by John James Audubon in the nineteenth century and that Cahokians consumed almost every other animal protein source available, the archaeologist conducting the studies concluded the passenger pigeon population had once been very limited before increasing dramatically in post-Columbian America. Other archaeologists have criticized those conclusions on the grounds that passenger pigeon bones would not be likely to be preserved. But all the archaeological projects found plenty of bird bones--and even some tiny bones from fish.

7. The author of the passage mentions "tiny bones from fish" primarily in order to
　　A. Explain why traces of passenger pigeon are rare at Cahokian sites
　　B. Support a claim about the wide variety of animal proteins in the Cahokian diet
　　C. Provide evidence that confirms a theory about the extinction of the passenger pigeon
　　D. Cast doubt on the conclusion reached by the archaeologists who conducted the studies discussed in the passage
　　E. Counter an objection to an interpretation of the data obtained from Cahokian sites
　　
8. Which of the following, if true, would most call into question the reasoning of "the archaeologists conducting the studies"?
　　A. Audubon was unable to correctly identify twelfth-century Cahokian sites.
　　B. Audubon made his observations before passenger pigeon populations began to decline.
　　C. Passenger pigeons would have been attracted to household food trash.
　　D. Archaeologists have found passenger pigeon remains among food waste at eighteenth-century human settlements.
　　E. Passenger pigeons tended not to roost at the same sites for very many generations.

答案竟然选C和D。。。。我选了E和E。。。而且并不知道为何不对。。。
求讨论。。。

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发表于 2015-8-6 16:06:04 |只看该作者

我是这样理解的，仅供参考：

1. 第一题的答案是支持这个evidence --从文章中我们得知 the archaeologist conducting the studies concluded the passenger pigeon population had once been very limited before increasing dramatically in post-Columbian America。接下来的那句话是否定这个conclusion么，说...that passenger pigeon bones would not be likely to be preserved.但是最后那句话又反驳"other critics" 反对的说法，说鸟的骨头很多，就连鱼的骨头都找得到。

2."the archaeologists conducting the studies" John James Audubon 在19世纪的时候发现passenger pidgeon 的数量是后来才曾加的。如果选项D. Archaeologists have found passenger pigeon remains among food waste at eighteenth-century human settlements 是真的，那就会薄弱John James Audubon19世纪的发现

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发表于 2015-8-6 20:29:10 |只看该作者

芣莋厷炷de女王发表于 2015-8-6 16:06
我是这样理解的，仅供参考：

1. 第一题的答案是支持这个evidence --从文章中我们得知 the archaeologi ...

可是我觉得第一题的C更合适诶。
你看C说：Counter an objection to an interpretation of the data obtained from Cahokian sites。
其中“ an interpretation of the data obtained from Cahokian sites”指的就是archaeologist的结论即这种鸟数量本来很少后来激增；然后the objection就指的是其他的archaeologist对于这个结论的反驳，即这些骨头可能没留下来；最后作者利用其他骨头都留下来了这个理由counter这种反驳。所以我觉得作者是反驳其他人对于结论的反驳，双重肯定是对的呀。。。
还有第二题的D，他说这种鸟在18世纪的食物残渣中被发现，然而原文说的就是这种鸟在18世纪和19世纪很abudant，在18世纪的食物残渣中发现它怎么能否定它曾很少又激增呢……？再看E选项，E说这种鸟会隔几辈子就迁徙，也就是说19世纪这种鸟生活在Cahokian这个地方，但是它12世纪压根就不生活在这，所以12世纪的时候这地方没有这种鸟并不能证明这种鸟在12世纪的时候很少，因为它可能生活在其他地方，进而反驳了结论……
请问我这么想为何不对呢……

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芣莋厷炷de女王发表于 2015-8-6 16:06
我是这样理解的，仅供参考：

1. 第一题的答案是支持这个evidence --从文章中我们得知 the archaeologi ...

啊不对抱歉说错了，我是说我觉得第一题E更合适……

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发表于 2015-8-6 23:15:35 |只看该作者

我先说第二题，我对我给的解释道歉，因为有点误导。
首先我们还是要看一下这个问题问的是什么，Q. Which of the following, if true, would most call into question the reasoning of "the archaeologists conducting the studies"? 没有在weaken也没有否定的这个考古学家的结论的意思，只是在问怎么可以对这个考古学家的结论起到怀疑。之后我们再看文章的内容，那个考古学家的conclusion是依据19世纪John James Audubon的documentation. 这个documentation是19世纪搜集的，也就是说比19世纪之前发现同样的结论都可以让这个考古学家的结论 call into question 有质疑。

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