In a recent film set in seventeenth-century Europe, thehero is seen doing the crawl, a swimming stroke not known in Europe before the 1920's.However, since moviegoers obviously are not experts in the history of
swimming strokes, for most of the film's audiences this blunder clearly cannot have interfered with whatever
sense of historical authenticity the film otherwise achieved.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument given?
(A) The film was widely praised for being historically plausible, even though it portrayed many events that were not historically attested.
(B) The scene that shows the film's hero doing the crawl is a rescue scene pivotal to the film's action,and parts of it are even shown a second time, in a flashback.
(C) Makers of historical films, even of those set as recently as the nineteenth century, routinely strike compromises between historical authenticity and the need to keep their material accessible to a modern audience, as in the actors' speech patterns.
(D) The crawl that European swimmers used in the 1920's was much less efficient and more awkward-looking than the crawl that is currently taught.
(E) A slightly earlier film featuring an eighteenth century sea battle in Europe was ridiculed in numerous popular reviews for the historical lapse of showing a sailor doing the crawl in swimming to safety.
答案是E 我选的是B 原文的意思是说这个bug 不会影响到整体的历史真实感么?
7.In the country of Laurelia, legal restrictions on the sale of lock-picking equipment were relaxed ten years ago, and since then Laurelia's burglary rate has risen dramatically. Hence, since legally purchased lock-picking equipment was used in most burglaries, reintroducing strict limits on the sale of this equipment would help to reduce Laurelia's burglary rate.
Which of the following, if true, gives the strongest support to the argument? (A) Laurelia's overall crime rate has risen dramatically over the last ten years.
(B) There is wide popular support in Laurelia for the reintroduction of strict limits on the sale of lock-
picking equipment.
(C) The reintroduction of strict limits on the sale of lock-picking equipment in Laurelia would not
prevent legitimate use of this equipment by police and other public safety officials.
(D) Most lock-picking equipment used in Laurelia is fragile and usually breaks irreparably within a few years of purchase.
(E) The introduction five years ago of harsher punishments for people convicted of burglary had li
第一题
core argument是
not experts -------> do not interfere with history authenticity
这里的漏洞是 experts和authenticity的关系
B是说这个场景很重要,在以后还放了一遍,完全对argument没有任何影响。
E说之前放的有这个场景的电影被人们嘲笑了。是说人们能够看出来并且嘲笑了这个。因此 weaken了argument