大家把两人对话的题罗一罗吧 －－请教

M: The Greek alphabet must have been invented by some individual who knew the Phoenician writing system and who wanted to have some way of recording Homeric epics and thereby preserving expressions of a highly developed tradition of oral poetry.

P: Your hypothesis is laughable! What would have been the point of such a person’s writing Homeric epics down? Surely a person who knew them well enough to write them down would not need to read them, and no one else could read them, according to your hypothesis.

3.     Which one of the following is an argumentative strategy that P uses in responding to M?

(A) attacking M’s understanding of the literary value of oral poetry

(B) disagreeing with M’s thesis without attempting to refute it

(C) challenging M’s knowledge of the Phoenician writing system

(D) attempting to undermine M’s hypothesis by making it appear absurd（D）

(E) providing an alternative interpretation of evidence put forward by M

4.     ’s argument is vulnerable to which one of the following criticisms?

(A) It fails to demonstrate that the Phoenician alphabet alone could have provided the basis for the Greek alphabet.

(B) It incorrectly assumes that the first text ever written in Greek was a Homeric poem.

(C) It confuses the requirements for a complex oral tradition with the requirements of a written language.

(D) It attempts to demonstrate the truth of a hypothesis merely by showing that it is possible.（E）

(E) It overlooks the possibility that person who invented the Greek alphabet did so with the intention of teaching it to others.

也是逻辑大全上的题 ，不明白为什么，请大家给讲讲

翻译的很烂。

M: 又会写斐尼基人的字又懂得保留口头作品重要性的人，为了使之流传，记录下了一个东东。

P:  你的假设好可笑。那人写下这个东东的理由是什么？因为有能力记录下来的人自己都很了解这个东东, 就没有必要去读自己写的这个东东。别人也读不懂，照你的假设。

我认为P说的话就是使M的话变的荒谬，而若那人记录下的这个东东不是为了自己读而是为了教育他人，P的话就不那么荒谬了。