标题: 求问两道OG上面的题目，这么绕的题竟然没人问过。。 [打印本页] 作者: 温存。 时间: 2016-9-4 21:12 标题: 求问两道OG上面的题目，这么绕的题竟然没人问过。。 OG2017 Q595
1、The Testament of William Thorpe was published around 1530 as an appendix to Thorpe's longer Examination. Many scholars, however, doubt the attribution of the Testament to Thorpe because, whereas the Examination is dated 1406, the Testament is dated 1460. One scholar has recently argued that the 1460 date be amended to 1409, based on the observation that when these numbers are expressed as Roman numerals, MCCCCLX and MCCCCIX, it becpmes easy to see how the dates might have become confused through sribal error.
问哪个选项support the scholar's hypothesis concerning the date of the Testament
A. The sole evidence that historians have had that William Thorpe died no earlier than 1460 was the presumed date of publication of the Testament.
B. In the preface to the 1530 publication, the editor attributes both works to William Thorpe.
A和B都是错的
A这个选项我都不会断句，没看懂这个选项什么意思。而OG是这么解释的，哪个大神看懂了帮忙告诉一下，多谢！
This Suggests that scholars have no biographical evidence that the Testament was published in 1460, but they could still have abundant evidence of other type to support that date, such as the text's cultural allusions or reference to other works.
B是这么解释的：The editor of the 1530 publication could easily have been mistaken about the authorship of one or both works. And even if the editor were correct, Thorpe might have lived long enough to write one work in 1406 and the other in 1460.
我觉得B选项weaken了hypothesis，但是解释怎么看上去在说B选项不够support呢？B选项的解释到底是什么意思？
Q596
To reduce productivity losses from employees calling in sick, Corporation X implemented a new policy requring employees to come into work unless they were so sick that they had to go to a doctor. 然后过了一年他们发现overall productivity losses due to reported employee illnesses had increased.
问哪个选项能解释为什么方案达到了相反的效果
A. After the policy was implemented, employees more frequently went to the doctor when they felt sick.
我选了这个但是错了，我认为员工在这个方案施行后故意一有病就去看医生来达到请假的目的，所以导致方案无效。我这么想错了吗？
OG说there is no reason to think that employees' doing so would have made them less productive than they would otherwise have been when absent from work. 我觉得去看医生不就是意味着旷工吗？实在不理解OG的意思
问题很关键：Which of the following, if true, would most support the scholar’s hypothesis concerning the date of the Testament? NOT MANY SCHOLARS，所以，任何answers和MANY SCHOLARS相关的都是错误的。
A. The sole evidence that historians have had that William Thorpe died no earlier than 1460 was the presumed date of publication of the Testament. One scholar没有用1460这个evidence做推论；是many scholars用了这个1460的证据. Many scholars think "because, whereas E is dated 1406, T is dated 1460" --> doubt that WP who wrote E also wrote T. A选项的迷惑点是MANY SCHOLARS用了1460这个evidence，但是题目根本没有问MANY SCHOLAR。Totally irrlevant answer.
进一步看OG对于A的解释：This suggests that SCHOLARS have no biographical evidence that the Testament was published in 1460, but THEY could still have abundant evidence of other types to support that data, such as blablabla. 解释都是在指向mang scholars用这个证据，i.e., 即使他们没有biographical evidence（historican给出的），他们还可以用别的方式去支持那个1460的日子可靠。
这道题的正确答案是d, "The Testament alludes to a date, “Friday, September 20,” as apparently
contemporaneous with the writing of the Testament, and September 20 fell on
a Friday in 1409 but not in 1460." 这个选项直接联系到hypothesis,因为通过它，我们可以更加肯定，date of testament其实是1409，也就是hypothesis推断的一致。
第二道题，你这样想，a选项说的那些人，在新规定实施之前，他们就直接请假了，也就是absent from work；新规定实施之后，他们去看医生了，所以也是absent from work。反正都不去上班，你也说不好哪种情况的productivity更高啊。
正确选项是 “Employees coming into work when sick often infect many of their coworker”。非常直接，也非常明显。作者: 你最珍贵187 时间: 2017-12-11 15:36
我的看法，望指正。the scholar其实就是题里的one scholar,他的逻辑链就是从“罗马数字很容易搞混，时间可能被高错了”推向“Testament的时间应由1460改成1409“。我们只要加强这个逻辑链就OK了。而A其实就是试图质疑WT的死亡时间，因为证据就一个。但是，我们压根不需要讨论WT的死亡时间，这压根不在这条逻辑链里，所以A是无关项。
B，editor把E和T都归功于WT这个人。这俩作品被说成是谁的对我们来说压根不重要，因为我们要加强的是T的时间！所以B无关作者: 蟹黄味蚕豆 时间: 2018-10-1 13:31
