1990年4月Saction A的阅读题，求大神教

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Modern archaeological finds can still contribute much to the study of ancient literature. For example, forty years ago a survey of the early Greek dramatist Aeschylus’ plays would have started with The Suppliant Women. Many factors internal to 内部的 the play, but perhaps most especially the prominence of 突出 the chorus (which in this play has the main role), led scholars to consider it one of Aeschylus’ earlier works. The consensus 共识 was that here was a drama truly reflecting an early stage in the evolution of tragedy out of choral lyric. The play was dated as early as the 490’s B.C., in any event（无论如何）, well before Aeschylus’ play The Persians of 472 B.C. Then, in 1952, a fragment of papyrus 莎草纸 found at Oxyrhynchus was published stating the official circumstances and results of a dramatic contest. The fragment announced that Aeschylus won first prize with his Danaid tetralogy, of which The Suppliant Women is the opening play, and defeated Sophocles in the process. Sophocles did not compete in any dramatic contest before 468 B.C., when he won his first victory. Hence, except by special pleading 恳求；吁请 (e. g., that the tetralogy was composed early in Aeschylus’ career but not produced until the 460’s B.C.), the Danaid tetralogy must be put after 468 B.C. In addition, a few letters in the fragment suggest the name Archedemides, archon in 463 B.C., thus perhaps tying the plays to that precise date, almost exactly halfway between Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes of 467 B.C. and his Oresteia.
The implication 含意；牵连 of the papyrus administered a severe shock to the vast majority of classical scholars, who had confidently asserted that not only the role of the chorus but also language, metrics, and characterization all pointed to an early date. The discovery has resulted in no less than a total reevaluation of every chronological 按实际发生顺序的 criterion that has been applied to or derived from Aeschylus’ plays. The activity has been brisk 敏捷的, and a new creed 信条；信念 has now spread. The prominence of the chorus in The Suppliant Women now is seen not as a sign of primitivism 原始的；未开化的 but as analogous 相似的 to the massive choral songs of the Oresteia. Statistics have been formulated, or reformulated, to show that stylistically The Suppliant Women does actually occupy a position after The Persians and Seven Against Thebes, which now become the “primitive” plays, and before the Oresteia. |||||While the new doctrine seems almost certainly correct, the one papyrus fragment raises the specter 引起恐慌 that another may be unearthed 发掘, showing, for instance, that it was a posthumous 死后发表的production of the Danaid tetralogy which bested Sophocles, and throwing the date once more into utter confusion. This is unlikely to happen, but it warns us that perhaps the most salutary有益的 feature of the papyrus scrap =fragment is its message of the extreme difficulty of classifying and categorizing rigidly the development of a creative artist.
The author’s attitude toward the “activity” mentioned in line 35 and its consequences can best be described as one of
(A) amused tolerance
(B) mocking envy
(C) grave 重大的 doubt
(D) angry disapproval
(E) unrestrained enthusiasm
27.        The allusion 暗示 to the hypothetical papyrus fragment in line 45-49 does which of the following?
(A) Supports an argument concerning the date of The Suppliant Women.
(B) Refutes the views of the majority of scholars concerning the Oxyrhynchus papyrus find.
(C) Predicts the future results of archaeological research proposed in the passage.
(D) Undermines the validity of the currently accepted chronology of Aeschylus’ works.
(E) Qualifies the author’s agreement with the “new creed” developed since the Oxyrhynchus papyrus find.
看不懂为什么 26 选A， 27选E