大全-D-10-->携隐修改标题（TEST D-10）

dandan74 · 发表于 2003-11-14 14:55:00

In the industrialized nations, the last century has witnessed a shortening of the average workday from twelve hours or longer to less than eight hours. Mindful of this enormous increase in leisure time over the past century, many people assume that the same trend has obtained throughout history, and that, therefore, prehistoric humans must have labored incessantly for their very survival.
We cannot, of course, directly test this assumption. However, a study of primitive peoples of today suggests a different conclusion. The Mbuti of central Africa, for instance, spend only a few hours each day in hunting, gathering, and tending to other economic necessities. The rest of their time is spent as they choose. The implication is that the short workday is not peculiar to industrialized societies. Rather, both the extended workday of 1880 and the shorter workday of today are products of different stages of the continuing process of industrialization.
10. Which of the following, if true, would most greatly strengthen the argument made in the passage above?
(A) In recent decades, the economy of the Mbuti has been markedly affected by the encroachment of modern civilization.
(B) The life-style of the Mbuti is similar to that of prehistoric humans.
(C) The Mbuti have no words in their language to express the distinction between work activities and leisure activities.
(D) The workday of a European peasant in medieval times averaged between eleven and fifteen hours.
(E) The members of the Shaklik tribe in central Asia have an average workday of ten to twelve hours.

我不是很明白选项，建立不起联系，那位大虾给解释解释？

xiang_y · 发表于 2003-11-14 15:36:00

Let me try.

Line of reasoning in the passage. Old conclusion-> new study, example->new conclusion

There are two new conclusions in this passage:
1. short workday is not peculiar to industrialized societies.
2. both the extended workday of 1880 and the shorter workday of today are products of different stages of the continuing process of industrialization.

In order to strength the argument, the new evidence provided by the answers must agree with these 2 new conclusions.

answer A: have nothing to do with workday.

answer C: if what C said is true, it attacks the vadility of the evidence cited in the passage about the Mbuti, thus weaken the conclusion.

answer D: if what D said is true, it supports the old conclusion

answer E: answer E is a little bit trick, however it does not agree with the first new conclusion: short workday is not peculiar to industrialized societies.

answer B: if what B said is true, which means prehistoric humans had short workday,
combined this with last century people had 12 hours workday and today people have 8 hours workday will help to prove the second new conclusion.

Is B the right answer? Anyway, hope this will help.

dandan74 · 发表于 2003-11-16 02:57:00

谢谢你的解释，B是对的，这道题主要是题干长，看看就晕了。

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wwwhahchn · 发表于 2005-2-15 00:41:00

還是不太明白

dreamerps · 发表于 2005-8-31 13:01:00

偶也还是不明白，请哪位可以再解释下吗？

lexie · 发表于 2006-7-11 14:19:00

文章中有对比了prehistoric humans and Mbuti ，因为第一段中说prehistoric humans labored incessantly for thier very survial就是说long workdays, 第二段举例了Mbuti说明了primitive people 未必都是long workdays,反驳了第一段的结论

第二段得出来：short workday is not peculiar to industrialized societies...为了支持这个结论如果Mbuti跟prehistoric humans的life-style一样说明他们primitive people也可以short workdays 从而就strengthen了 short workday is not peculiar to industrialized socieities.

所以B起了一个加强作用

不知道这么解释能行么我认为这段文字的结论就是 short workday is not peculiar to industrialized societies...作者为了说明这个问题先给了一个例子说long workday后来用了一个例子来反驳了第一个例子得出原始人的社会也可以short workday 从而得出了红色部分的结论

lexie · 发表于 2006-7-11 14:20:00

这个题干好长是LSAT题么？还是GMAT的真题呢？

lxzjojo · 发表于 2006-10-24 18:05:00

文中的其中一个结论是: the short workday is not peculiar to industrialized societies,而这个结论是由a study of primitive peoples of today（现代关于古人的研究）来得出的，故如果如B所说，Mbuti的life-style与古人很像，那这个结论自然就得到了加强。

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rockmax · 发表于 2008-7-24 10:56:00

题目意思:

结论一:leisure time 增加伴随着整个历史,--> 史前人工作时间长.

反对结论一: M人工作时间短,

新结论: 工作时间短不是工业社会的特点. 长时间和短时间是不同工业阶段的产物.

B 搭桥. M=史前人.

(B) The life-style of the Mbuti is similar to that of prehistoric humans.

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Xunan · 发表于 2008-8-19 20:21:00

大全-D-10-->携隐修改标题（TEST D-10）

大全-D-10-->携隐修改标题（TEST D-10）

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