这道题的结论到底是什么?我选的C,与B 的差别就在对于结论的判定上,我认为····
这道题选B吧。
Although the earliest surviving Greek inscriptions written in an alphabet date from the eighth century B.C., a strong case can be made that the Greeks actually adopted alphabetic writing at least two centuries earlier. Significantly, the text of these earliest surviving Greek inscriptions sometimes runs from right to left and sometimes from left to right. Now, the Greeks learned alphabetic writing from the Phoenicians, and in the process they would surely have adopted whatever convention the Phoenicians were then using with respect to the direction of writing. Originally, Phoenician writing ran in either direction, but by the eighth century B.C. it had been consistently written from right to left for about two centuries.
这段话的中心在第一句,第一局的中心在后面。所以first黑体部分是要establish的观点。
后面这个黑体是一个重要的假设。文中的逻辑关系是:证据--》结合假设--》结论。
证据:1.最早的希腊人写字方向不一定;2. 现代希腊人学会了 alphabetic的字,并且从右往左;3. 希腊人是学ph人的;4.最早的ph人也是两边写字的,但是某个时间点上他们只是从右往左写。
假设:希腊人对写字从那边开始不关心,只要方便就好(也就是说ph人怎么写,他们就怎么学。没有这个假设,下面的就不能成立)
结论:希腊人是在上面ph人从右往左写的时候学的。(否则,希腊人应该还是无论从那边写都一样;同时这个时间点把原先希腊人学习alphabetic的时间提早了)
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