Official Practice Mixed set3的一道短文章

大雄jatsionUID: 3410716

题目如下：
Geographers and historians have traditionally held the view that Antarctica was first sighted around 1820, but some sixteenth-century European maps show a body that resembles the polar landmass, even though explorers of the period never saw it. Some
Line scholars, therefore, argue that the continent must have been discovered and mapped
5 by the ancients, whose maps are known to have served as models for the European cartographers.
题目是选出一个能够most damaging to the inference drawn by the scholars.

Which of the following, if true, is most damaging to the inference drawn by the scholars?

A The question of who first sighted Antarctica in modern times is still much debated, and no one has been able to present conclusive evidence.
B Between 3,000 and 9,000 years ago, the world was warmer than it is now, and the polar landmass was presumably smaller.
C There are only a few sixteenth-century global maps that show a continental landmass at the South Pole.
D Most attributions of surprising accomplishments to ancient civilizations or even extraterrestrials are eventually discredited or rejected as preposterous.
E Ancient philosophers believed that there had to be a large landmass at the South Pole to balance

答案是E 但是我选的是D
官方解释对D的解释是这样的

Choice D com-ments upon the conclusion but does not pertain to the argument itself, so it is also incorrect 我想请各位大大解释一下什么叫做not pertain to the argument。 还是说如果有DE同时存在的时候要优选E这样子的选项
谢谢大家了！

学习夹衣UID: 3553314

Means it's not directly related to the argument that "the continent must have been discovered and mapped by the ancients." D is just a fact about "ancients' accomplishments" in general, it doesn't necessarily preclude this particular argument from being correct.

toptimesmanUID: 2959482

not pertain to 就是不相关于。D答案可以作为削弱原INFERENCE的理由，但是还没有强大到直接、完全削弱的地步。拿在ARGUMENT里面就可以作为攻击点：大多数的归因于古代成就的做法是不合逻辑的，却不足以说明把”这个关于ANTARCTICA的发现归因于古代发现“也是不合逻辑的。

而再来看E，是直接提到了SOUTH POLE不是被发现的，而是YY出来的。BINGO。

大雄jatsionUID: 3410716

toptimesman 发表于 2014-9-3 09:01
not pertain to 就是不相关于。D答案可以作为削弱原INFERENCE的理由，但是还没有强大到直接、完全削弱的地步 ...

谢谢大神的解答 我再多做几个题目体会一下，感谢！

BTW我还想问一个问题 ARGUEMENT的写作是不是就是一种纯属找茬、让我们找逻辑漏洞的写作 - -恕我直白。。。

大雄jatsionUID: 3410716

学习夹衣 发表于 2014-9-2 11:47
Means it's not directly related to the argument that "the continent must have been discovered and ma ...

谢谢解答！

toptimesmanUID: 2959482

大雄jatsion 发表于 2014-9-6 09:05
谢谢大神的解答 我再多做几个题目体会一下，感谢！

BTW我还想问一个问题 ARGUEMENT的写作是不是就是一 ...

我觉得ARGUMENT应该找茬+让步+合理的可能性+回归驳斥作者的漏洞

大雄jatsionUID: 3410716

toptimesman 发表于 2014-9-7 01:01
我觉得ARGUMENT应该找茬+让步+合理的可能性+回归驳斥作者的漏洞

好好 谢谢 我之前看了一下那本写作5.5的书 觉得里面讲的一些points有点牵强。。