请教OG10-11篇,primary purpose

Passage 11

At the end of the nineteenth century, a rising interest

in Native American customs and an increasing desire to

understand Native American culture prompted ethnolo-

gists to begin recording the life stories of Native Amer-

(5) ican. Ethnologists had a distinct reason for wanting to

hear the stories: they were after linguistic or anthropo-

logical data that would supplement their own field

observations, and they believed that the personal

stories, even of a single individual, could increase their

(10) understanding of the cultures that they had been

observing from without. In addition many ethnologists

at the turn of the century believed that Native Amer-

ican manners and customs were rapidly disappearing,

and that it was important to preserve for posterity as

(15) much information as could be adequately recorded

before the cultures disappeared forever.

There were, however, arguments against this method

as a way of acquiring accurate and complete informa-

tion. Franz Boas, for example, described autobiogra-

(20) phies as being “of limited value, and useful chiefly for

the study of the perversion of truth by memory,” while

Paul Radin contended that investigators rarely spent

enough time with the tribes they were observing, and

inevitably derived results too tinged by the investi-

(25) gator’s own emotional tone to be reliable.

Even more importantly, as these life stories moved

from the traditional oral mode to recorded written

form, much was inevitably lost. Editors often decided

what elements were significant to the field research on a

(30) given tribe. Native Americans recognized that the

essence of their lives could not be communicated in

English and that events that they thought significant

were often deemed unimportant by their interviewers.

Indeed, the very act of telling their stories could force

(35) Native American narrators to distort their cultures, as

taboos had to be broken to speak the names of dead

relatives crucial to their family stories.

Despite all of this, autobiography remains a useful

tool for ethnological research: such personal reminis-

(40) cences and impressions, incomplete as they may be, are

likely to throw more light on the working of the mind

and emotions than any amount of speculation from an

ethnologist or ethnological theorist from another

culture.

65. The primary purpose of the passage as a whole is to

(A)    question an explanation

(B)    correct a misconception

(C)    critique a methodology

(D)    discredit an idea（C）

(E)     clarify an ambiguity

费解，尽管通篇都在说这个方法不好，可是结尾一个让步后说明它是remains useful，这种情况还能选critique吗

  也在这里出错

critique 评论

criticize批评,指责

在阅读中这两个词都有用到

朗文词典

critique  AmE  to make remarks about the good and bad qualities of something,especially artistic or literary work<美>评论(尤指艺术或文学作品)

我觉得在有些题里能找到美语和英式英语用词的不同,毕竟GMAT是美国出题,在雅思里面也有这种区别.如smart,在美语是intelligent,trying to seem clever聪明或自做聪明的.而在英式英语wearing neat attractive clothes and having a gemerally tidy appearance衣著整洁漂亮的,帅气的.

原来这里有玄机

多谢XD指点