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OG10-62 定位

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楼主
发表于 2006-7-3 23:12:00 | 只看该作者

OG10-62 定位

62.     Which of the following is most similar to the actions of nineteenth-century ethnologists in their editing of the life stories of Native Americans?

(A) A witness in a jury trial invokes the Fifth Amendment in order to avoid relating personally incriminating evidence.

(B) A stockbroker refuses to divulge the source of her information on the possible future increase in a stock’s value.

(C) A sports announcer describes the action in a team sport with which he is unfamiliar.

(D) A chef purposely excludes the special ingredient from the recipe of his prizewinning dessert.C

(E) A politician fails to mention in a campaign speech the similarities in the positions held by her opponent for political office and by herself.

大家这题如何定位? When I saw "editing" in the question, I immeditely went to paragraph 3 to look for answer. Why ETS uses Paul Radin's contentions as the source for this question?

Thanks.

沙发
发表于 2006-7-4 20:49:00 | 只看该作者

下次文章贴出来吧.

At the end of the nineteenth century, a rising interest in Native American customs and an increasing desire to understand Native American culture prompted ethnolo-gists to begin recording the life stories of Native Amer ican. Ethnologists had a distinct reason for wanting to hear the stories: they were after linguistic or anthropo-logical data that would supplement their own field observations, and they believed that the personal stories, even of a single individual, could increase their understanding of the cultures that they had been observing from without. In addition many ethnologists at the turn of the century believed that Native Amer-ican manners and customs were rapidly disappearing, and that it was important to preserve for posterity as much information as could be adequately recorded before the cultures disappeared forever.

There were, however, arguments against this method as a way of acquiring accurate and complete informa-tion. Franz Boas, for example, described autobiogra phies as being “of limited value, and useful chiefly for the study of the perversion of truth by memory,” while Paul Radin contended that investigators rarely spent enough time with the tribes they were observing, and inevitably derived results too tinged by the investigator’s own emotional tone to be reliable.

Even more importantly, as these life stories moved from the traditional oral mode to recorded written form, much was inevitably lost. Editors often decided what elements were significant to the field research on a given tribe. Native Americans recognized that the essence of their lives could not be communicated in English and that events that they thought significant were often deemed unimportant by their interviewers. Indeed, the very act of telling their stories could force Native American narrators to distort their cultures, as taboos had to be broken to speak the names of dead relatives crucial to their family stories.

      Despite all of this, autobiography remains a useful tool for ethnological research: such personal reminiscences and impressions, incomplete as they may be, are likely to throw more light on the working of the mind and emotions than any amount of speculation from an ethnologist or ethnological theorist from another culture.


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板凳
发表于 2006-7-4 21:11:00 | 只看该作者

这题我个人觉得出的邪了一点. 但是由主文章脉络和题目题干其实还是可以知道从第二段定位. 文章分四段. 一二段是比较正反, 三是对反的例证, 四则是让步. 例证则通常是用来支持论述所以第三段在这篇文章是用来支持第二段. 而相反的第二段也正是为第三段作出解释. 而看过题目后知道题目并不是问你例子的细节, 所以并不需要再第三段定位, 反而在答案选项中找出一个和第二段叙述符合的即可. 反正答案是比出来的. 说这题邪了点其实是因为第三段的例证和第二段比的逻辑连接性比较不明确. 希望有帮助.  

地板
 楼主| 发表于 2006-7-4 22:19:00 | 只看该作者

有道理: 论述 <=> 例证. Didn't think of that when I read the passage.

Thanks.

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