一道阅读题

小天一诶UID: 3283403

A divide between aesthetic and technical considerations has played a crucial role in mapmaking and cartographic scholarship. Since nineteenth century cartographers, for instance, understood themselves as technicians who did not care about visual effects, while others saw themselves as landscape painters. That dichotomy structured the discipline of the history of cartography. Until the 1980s, in what Blakemore and Harley called “the Old is Beautiful Paradigm,” scholars largely focused on maps made before 1800, marveling at their beauty and sometimes regretting the decline of the pre-technical age. Early mapmaking was considered art while modern cartography was located within the realm of engineering utility. Alpers, however, has argued that this boundary would have puzzled mapmakers in the seventeenth century, because they considered themselves to be visual engineers.

2. It can be inferred from the passage that, beginning in the 1980s, historians of cartography
　　A. placed greater emphasis on the beauty of maps made after 1800
　　B. expanded their range of study to include more material created after 1800
　　C. grew more sensitive to the way mapmakers prior to 1800 conceived of their work
　　D. came to see the visual details of maps as aesthetic objects rather than practical cartographic aids
　　E. reduced the attention they paid to the technical aspects of mapmaking


为什么选B啊救命。。。。。。求点拨！谢谢

小天一诶UID: 3283403

有人吗:dizzy:

辰南UID: 3613235

Until the 1980s, in what Blakemore and Harley called “the Old is Beautiful Paradigm,” scholars largely focused on maps made before 1800, marveling at their beauty and sometimes regretting the decline of the pre-technical age

在1980s 前  主要看早于1800的maps  然后你取个反

小天一诶UID: 3283403

辰南 发表于 2015-11-5 18:11
Until the 1980s, in what Blakemore and Harley called “the Old is Beautiful Paradigm,” scholars lar ...

噢，我知道我哪里搞错了，谢谢！

yo_gussUID: 3770182

求解第一题为什么选A

yo_gussUID: 3770182

According to the passage, Alpers would say that the assumptions underlying the “paradigm” were

　　A. inconsistent with the way some mapmakers prior to 1800 understand their own work

　　B. dependent on a seventeenth-century conception of mapmaking visual engineering

　　C. unconcerned with the difference between the aesthetic and technical questions of mapmaking

　　D. insensitive to divisions among cartographers working in the period after 1800

　　E. supported by the demonstrable technical superiority of mapmaking made after 1800

hedoolUID: 3905760

yo_guss 发表于 2016-11-29 08:30
According to the passage, Alpers would say that the assumptions underlying the “paradigm” were

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Alpers似乎是认为17世纪的制图师是以visual engineers自居的，也就是说他们认为自己是兼具艺术和工程师的属性的，而paradigm则把early mapmaking归为art，认为只有现代制图才属于工程学范畴，这种划分和17世纪制图师的对自己的认同是违背的。