Question 14-15
Kim: In northern Europe during the eighteenth century a change of attitude occurred that found expression both in the adoption of less solemn and elaborate death rites by the population at large and in a more optimistic view of the human condition as articulated by philosophers. this change can be explained as the result of a dramatic increase in life expectancy that occurred in northern Europe early in the eighteenth century.
Lee: Your explanation seems unlikely, because it could now be correct unless the people of the time were aware that their life expectancy had increased.
14. Which one of the following, if true, provides the strongest defense of Kim’s explanation against Lee’s criticism?
(A) An increase in life expectancy in a population often gives rise to economic changes that, in turn, directlyinfluence people’s attitudes.
(B) Present day psychologists have noted that people’s attitude toward life can change in response to information about their life expectancy.
(C) Philosophers in northern Europe during the eighteenth century made many conjectures that did not affect the ideas of the population at large.
(D) The concept of life expectancy is based on statistical theories that had not been developed in the eighteenth century.
(E) Before the eighteen century the attitudes of northern Europeans were more likely to be determined by religious teaching than by demographic phenomena.
答案ａ 我ｂ 我没看出来ａ是怎么反驳后者的． ：（
K longer life causes happier mood.
L people dont know they live longer==> deny the cause
to weaken L , so just need to support the cause.
A longer life =>economic change => happier mood
the same to longer life=> happier mood
entia 发表于 2004-12-21 22:01
Question 14-15Kim: In northern Europe during the eighteenth century a change of attitude occurred th ...
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