36套Ex18第9题，

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The social sciences are less likely than other intellectual
enterprises to get credit for their accomplishments.
Arguably, this is so because the theories and conceptual
constructs of the social sciences are especially accessible:
human intelligence apprehends truths about human affairs
with particular facility.
This underappreciation of the social sciences contrasts
oddly with what many see as their overutilization. Game
theory is pressed into service in studies of shifting
international alliances. Evaluation research is called upon
to demonstrate successes or failures of social programs. Yet
this rush into practical applications is itself quite
understandable: public policy must continually be made,
and policymakers rightly feel that even tentative findings
and untested theories are better guides to decision-making
than no findings and no theories at all.

9. The author confronts the claim that the social
sciences are being overutilized with
(A) proof that overextensions of social science
results are self-correcting
(B) evidence that some public policy is made
without any recourse to social science findings or
theories
(C) a long list of social science applications that are
perfectly appropriate and extremely fruitful
(D) the argument that overutilization is by and
large the exception rather than the rule
(E) the observation that this practice represents the
lesser of two evils under existing circumstances
答案E，求解释，谢谢

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个人理解:two evils 指的是 1 even tentative findings and untested theories      2no findings and no theories  题目大概意思是作者如何处理overrutilized这个claim,根据原文作者证明这个claim是这
么说的public policy must continually be made,
Gand policymakers rightly feel that even tentative findingsand untested theories are better guides to decision-making
no findings and no theories at all.
就是policymakers认为没证实的理论也比没有理论好.题里的evil就是说两个都不好,lesser就是稍微好一点的,也即是未证实的理论.

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谢谢 2# songxiaoshi