求助！ 36里的阅读理解

maliana · 发表于 2012-8-1 21:24:16

The social sciences are less likely than other intellectual enterprises to get credit for their accomplishments. Arguably, this is so because the theories and conceptual constructs of the social sciences are especially accessible: human intelligence apprehends truths about human affairs with particular facility.
This underappreciation of the social sciences contrasts oddly with what many see as their overutilization. Game theory is pressed into service in studies of shifting international alliances. Evaluation research is called upon to demonstrate successes or failures of social programs. Yet this rush into practical applications is itself quite understandable: public policy must continually be made, and policymakers rightly feel that even tentative findings and untested theories are better guides to decision-making than no findings and no theories at all.
(123 words)

9. The author confronts the claim that the social
sciences are being overutilized with
(A) proof that overextensions of social science
results are self-correcting
(B) evidence that some public policy is made
without any recourse to social science findings or theories
(C) a long list of social science applications that are
perfectly appropriate and extremely fruitful
(D) the argument that overutilization is by and
large the exception rather than the rule
(E) the observation that this practice represents the
lesser of two evils under existing circumstances

我选的B，答案选E，说实话没怎么读懂。

希望详解！
谢谢

grewalker · 发表于 2012-8-1 22:57:39

翻译：
与其它知识学科相比，诸社会科学不太可能因为其成就而获得赞誉。正如可论证的那样，这之所以
如此，是因为社会科学的理论和概念尤其易于理解：人类的智力在领悟有关人类事务的真理时格外
轻而易举。此外，社会科学的发现，一旦被分离开来并被贴上标签予以归类，很快就被吸收到传统
智慧中，这样一来，它们便失去其作为科学进行的独特性。
奇怪的是，这种对社会科学的不充分欣赏（underappreciation）与另一种情形构成了对比，这
就是在许多人看来对它们的过度利用（over utilization）。博弈理论（Game Theory）被强行逼迫效力
于对不断变换的国际联盟的研究。评估研究（evaluation research）被召唤去论证社会项目的成败。
来自经济学的人口统计学的模型成为决定性的工具，用以检验社会保险的金融基础。然则，这种对
实际应用的匆忙投入就其本身而言相当可以理解：公共政策必须被持续不断地制定出来，而政策制
定者不无道理地觉得，即使带有尝试性的研究发现和未经检验的理论对于决策过程来说，总要比根
本没有研究发现和根本没有理论更有指导作用。

楼主我也选的B，这是老G的第八套section6的一篇阅读。可以去看看。
对于E里面出现的evils表示很疑惑。。。

grewalker · 发表于 2012-8-1 23:07:46

我懂了……E的意思是“两害相权取其轻”

maliana · 发表于 2012-8-2 21:03:39

嗯，是的，读了两三遍，逻辑思维还不够清晰！

谢谢！

GPSGWJ · 发表于 2017-11-27 08:46:35

grewalker 发表于 2012-8-1 23:07
我懂了……E的意思是“两害相权取其轻”

同意！

求助！ 36里的阅读理解

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