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发表于 2014-9-1 13:08:58 |显示全部楼层

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
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发表于 2014-9-2 11:47:25 |显示全部楼层

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.

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发表于 2014-9-3 09:01:14 |显示全部楼层

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。