GWD-11-13(看了以前的帖子,但还是有疑问)

GWD11-13

Historian:  In the Drindian Empire, censuses were conducted annually to determine the population of each village.  Village census records for the last half of the 1600’s are remarkably complete.  This very completeness makes one point stand out; in five different years, villages overwhelmingly reported significant population declines.  Tellingly, each of those five years immediately followed an increase in a certain Drindian tax.  This tax, which was assessed on villages, was computed by the central government using the annual census figures.  Obviously, whenever the tax went up, villages had an especially powerful economic incentive to minimize the number of people they recorded; and concealing the size of a village’s population from government census takers would have been easy.  Therefore, it is reasonable to think that the reported declines did not happen.

In the historian’s argument, the two portions in boldface play which of the following roles?

1. The first supplies a context for the historian’s argument; the second acknowledges a consideration that has been used to argue against the position the historian seeks to establish.
   
   
   
2. The first presents evidence to support the position that the historian seeks to establish; the second acknowledges a consideration that has been used to argue against that position.
   
   
   
3. The first provides a context for certain evidence that supports the position that the historian seeks to establish; the second is that position.
   
   
   
4. The first is a position for which the historian argues; the second is an assumption that serves as the basis of that argument.
   
   
   
5. The first is an assumption that the historian explicitly makes in arguing for a certain position; the second acknowledges a consideration that calls that assumption into question.

对不起,我不大明白E为什么不对.首先我觉得C也是可以,但没有E表达的准确

首先first 是一个假设或者说context我认可,我觉得historian用归谬法来论证的,先提出一个假设,通过论证,证明这个assumption错误,E非常清楚的表达了这个意思

希望大家指点.....

自己顶一下

同志们啊,快要考试了,大家帮助一下