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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?

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发表于 2007-8-15 22:32:00 | 只看该作者

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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.

选C,请问原文是什么意思,看不太懂。为什么选C呢?哪位NN帮忙

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发表于 2007-8-16 19:30:00 | 只看该作者
我觉得做这类题,不一定要看懂原文,只要看黑体字和原文中的关键词,如表转折的BUT,HOWEVER,THOUGH 等,表递近的,表总结的,表原因的等这类词,推断作者态度就可以了
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