标题: LSAT-8-4-5 [打印本页] 作者: groundkeeper 时间: 2004-6-28 11:40 标题: LSAT-8-4-5 The ends of modern centuries have been greeted with both apocalyptic anxieties and utopian fantasies. It is not surprising that both reactions have consistently proven to be misplaced. After all, the precise time when a century happens to end cannot have any special significance, since the Gregorian calendar, though widely used, is only one among many that people have devised.
Which one of the following, if true, could be substituted for the reason cited above while still preserving the force of the argument
(A) it is logically impossible for both reactions to be correct at the same time.
(B) What is a utopian fantasy to one group of people may well be for another group of people, a realization of their worst fears.
(C) The number system based on the number ten, in the absence of which one hundred years would not have the appearance of being a significant period of time, is by no means the only one that people have created.
(D) The firm expectation that something extraordinary is about to happen can make people behave in a manner that makes it less likely that something extraordinary will happen.
(E) Since a century far exceeds the normal human life span people do not live long enough to learn from mistakes that they themselves made one hundred years before.
答案是C，没有想通，请各位大牛指点 作者: robertchu 时间: 2004-6-28 12:43
The reason that the author uses is "the Gregorian calendar, thoughwidely used, is only one among many that people have devised.". Cpoints out that 10-based numerical system, in which century (100 years)gains its significance, is also just one of many numerical systems thathave been devised. So, C is a good substitute.