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在no.6第二套section4中，第二十题，答案是a.showing that a certain interpretation is better supported by the evidence than is an alternative explanation
我的问题是，不知道c和e错在哪
c.questioning the accuracy of the evidence that most scholars have used to counter the author's own interpretation
e. presenting ecidence in support of a controversial version of an earlier interpretation
文章讲的是关于19世纪末美国农民的不满意的问题

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more than one of the choices could conceivably answer the question. However, you are to choose the best answer, that is, the response that most accurately and completely answers the question

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2# doraliu
Thank you for your answer, but I'm totally confused that why a is the best choice and all I need is the concrete proceed of judgement

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The historian Frederick J. Turner wrote in
the 1890’s that the agrarian discontent that had
been developing steadily in the United States
since about 1870 had been precipitated by the
(5) closing of the internal frontier--that is, the
depletion of available new land needed for
further expansion of the American farming
system. Not only was Turner’s thesis influential
at the time, it was later adopted and elaborated
(10) by other scholars, such as John D. Hicks in The
Populist Revolt (1931). Actually, however, new
lands were taken up for farming in the United
States throughout and beyond the nineteenth
century. In the 1890’s, when agrarian discontent
(15) had become most acute, 1,100,000 new farms
were settled, which was 500,000 more than had
been settled during the previous decade. After
1890, under the terms of the Homestead Act and
its successors, more new land was taken up for
(20) farming than had been taken up for this purpose
in the United States up until that time. It is true
that a high proportion of the newly farmed land
was suitable only for grazing and dry farming,
but agricultural practices had become suffi-
(25) ciently advanced to make it possible to increase
the profitability of farming by utilizing even
these relatively barren lands.
The emphasis given by both scholars and
statesmen to the presumed disappearance of the
(30) American frontier helped to obscure the great
importance of changes in the conditions and
consequences of international trade that oc-
curred during the second half of the nineteenth
century. In 1869 the Suez Canal was opened and
(35) the first transcontinental railroad in the United
States was completed. An extensive network of
telegraph and telephone communications was
spun: Europe was connected by submarine
cable with the United States in 1866 and with
(40) South America in 1874. By about 1870 improve-
ments in agricultural technology made possible
the full exploitation of areas that were most
suitable for extensive farming on a mechanized
basis. Huge tracts of land were being settled and
(45) farmed in Argentina, Australia, Canada, and in
the American West, and these areas were joined
with one another and with the countries of
Europe into an interdependent market system.
As a consequence, agrarian depressions no
(50) longer were local or national in scope, and they
struck several nations whose internal frontiers
had not vanished or were not about to vanish.
Between the early 1870’s and the 1890’s, the
mounting agrarian discontent in America paral-
(55) leled the almost uninterrupted decline in the
prices of American agricultural products on
foreign markets. Those staple-growing farmers
in the United States who exhibited the greatest
discontent were those who had become most
(60) dependent on foreign markets for the sale of
their products. Insofar as Americans had been
deterred from taking up new land for farming, it
was because market conditions had made this
period a perilous time in which to do so.

20. The author is primarily concerned with
  (A) showing that a certain interpretation is
   better supported by the evidence than is
   an alternative explanation
  (B) developing an alternative interpretation by
   using sources of evidence that formerly
   had been unavailable
  (C) questioning the accuracy of the evidence
   that most scholars have used to counter
   the author’s own interpretation
  (D) reviewing the evidence that formerly had
   been thought to obscure a valid
   interpretation
  (E) presenting evidence in support of a
   controversial version of an earlier
   interpretation.

史学家Frederick J. Turner、学者John D. Hicks等的观点：没有新土地开发利用-->农民不满
作者的观点author’s own interpretation：过度依赖国际市场的美国产品价格下降-->农民不满

可见作者主要关心的问题是：农民不满的原因根源上来自美国产品价格下降，这个比单单说没有更多新农作土地导致农民不满更有说服力。政府基于国际市场原因推迟新土地的使用。

A：certain interpretation指农民不满来自价格因素，alternative explanation指的是农民不满来自土地没有增加，evidence指的是国际市场上美国农产品价格下降。作者的观点是：价格下降—农民不满+政府控制农作土地。所以certain interpretation得到了更好的支持。
B：农产品价格下降在那个年代是显而易见的，并非unavailable
C：文中没有提到学者们过去用来反驳作者的观点的证据。
D：作者确实回顾了以前掩盖农民不满的证据，就是学者们认为的土地没有增加，但并非题干主要关心的问题——即段末解释价格下降
E：早期的解释农民不满的原因说的是土地没有随美国农业发展而增多，作者显然并不支持这一观点。

选A。一家直言，虽然自己也有点理不清了

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4# hua11
谢谢哈，好人有好报~
我的理解是，文章前半部分再论述以前观点的不正确性，即可用的土地并没有减少；后半部分论述自己的观点，即源自国际市场的价格下降，也就是c中的表达。
对于e中，in support of a 9 M; k2 A1 s9 _, J
   controversial version of an earlier & b% q1 t7 x( Q( \8 K/ ~
   interpretation
我把a controversial version 理解为作者自己的观点

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回楼上，我们的理解是一样的噢。文章前半部分再论述以前观点的不正确性，即可用的土地并没有减少；后半部分论述自己的观点，即源自国际市场的价格下降

但是：

C中质疑应该是不对的，文中没有提到学者对待作者观点的态度，反而是作者推翻了学者们的片面观点
E中controversial version还是与土地相关的，作者肯定不是support这种解释的。