求助reasoning。看我理解有没有错误。

lihaolan · 发表于 2012-8-23 23:26:37

24. One sure way you can tell how quickly a new idea – for example, the idea of “privatization” – is taking hold among the population is to monitor how fast the word or words expressing that particular idea are passing into common usage. Professional opinions of whether or not words can indeed be said to have
passed into common usage are available from dictionary editors, who are vitally concerned with this question.

The method described above for determining how quickly a new idea is taking hold relies on which one of the following assumptions?

(A) Dictionary editors are not professionally interested in words that are only rarely used.
(B) Dictionary editors have exact numerical criteria for telling when a word has passed into common usage.
(C) For a new idea to take hold, dictionary editors have to include the relevant word or words in their dictionaries.
(D) As a word passes into common usages, its meaning does not undergo any severe distortions in the process.
(E) Words denoting new ideas tend to be used before the ideas denoted are understood.
KEY。D
gap isbetween the“ new idea” and the “words expressing that particular idea”。so the answer is D
right？

nyx0313 · 发表于 2012-12-13 03:32:36

同意！就是你说的那样作者assumes “new idea”=“words expressing that particular idea”

D eliminates the possibility that “new idea”不等于“words expressing that particular idea”

求助reasoning。看我理解有没有错误。

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