LSAT-6-3-25&LSAT-6-3-26

groundkeeper · 发表于 2004-6-21 13:50:00

Proposals for extending the United States school year to bring it more in line with its European and Japanese counterparts are often met with the objection that curtailing the school's three-month summer vacation would violate an established United States tradition dating from the nineteenth century. However, this objection misses its mark. True, in the nineteenth century, the majority of schools closed for three months every summer, but only because they were in rural areas where successful harvests depended on children labor. If any policy could be justified by those appears to tradition. It would be the policy of determining the length of the school year according to the needs of the economy.

25. Which one of the following principles, if accepted, would provide the strongest justification for the conclusion?

(A) That a given social policy has traditionally been in force justifies maintaining that policy only if doing so does not conflict with more pressing social needs.

(B) Appeals to us own traditions cannot excuse a country from the obligation to bring its practices in line with the legitimate expectations of the rest of the world.

(C) Because appeals to tradition often serve to mask the real interests the real interests at issue, such appeals should be disregarded.

(D) Traditional principles should be discarded when they no longer serve the needs of the economy.

(E) The actual tradition embodied in a given practice can be accurately identified only by reference to the reasons that originally prompted that practice.

这个题目我选的是D,答案是E.但是这两个选项我有些分不清楚.

26. The argument counters the objection by

(A) providing evidence to show that the objection rallies on a misunderstanding about the amount of time each year United States schools traditionally have been closed

(B) calling into question the relevance of information about historical practices to current disputes about proposed social change

(C) arguing for an alternative understanding of the nature of the United States tradition regarding the length of the school year

(D) showing that those who oppose extending the school year have no genuine concern for tradition

(E) demonstrating that tradition justifies bringing the United States school year in line with that of the rest of the industrialized world

answer is C,它的突破点是什么? thanks a lot!

robertchu · 发表于 2004-6-21 14:55:00

Q26: this one is easy. The argument uses a common rhetorictechnique of "turning it arond" (i.e., "looking for silverlining"). The arugment does not dispute the fact that since 19thcentury the summer vacation has been 3 months, but it offers anexplanation of why the vacation was so long in 19th century, thusprovides an alternative understanding of the tradition -- as describedin C.

Q25: this one is more tricky and I got it wrong the first time. So, I'd leave it for other NN to explain. Any takers?

groundkeeper · 发表于 2004-6-21 17:56:00

以下是引用robertchu在2004-6-21 14:55:00的发言：

Q26: this one is easy. The argument uses a common rhetorictechnique of "turning it arond" (i.e., "looking for silverlining"). The arugment does not dispute the fact that since 19thcentury the summer vacation has been 3 months, but it offers anexplanation of why the vacation was so long in 19th century, thusprovides an alternative understanding of the tradition -- as describedin C.

thanks for robertchu's explanation, I got it! I think i must study hard in RC.

rhod · 发表于 2004-6-21 21:59:00

hehe, 不是NN.

Q25. 原文大意，有人反对延长美国的学年，认为不合传统。但是作者指出，19世纪学校采取3个月的暑假是因为农忙季节需要童工，传统是服务于经济利益的。所以传统的实质是服务于经济利益的, 就应该实行这个计划。

原文不是想要否定传统，而是指出了表面形式必须服务于实质目的。D/E的区别大概在此吧，不知道解释清楚了没...

groundkeeper · 发表于 2004-6-22 18:11:00

以下是引用rhod在2004-6-21 21:59:00的发言：

hehe, 不是NN.

Q25. 原文大意，有人反对延长美国的学年，认为不合传统。但是作者指出，19世纪学校采取3个月的暑假是因为农忙季节需要童工，传统是服务于经济利益的。所以传统的实质是服务于经济利益的, 就应该实行这个计划。

原文不是想要否定传统，而是指出了表面形式必须服务于实质目的。D/E的区别大概在此吧，不知道解释清楚了没...

he he, thanks rhod's explanation.

Could I think that in D{Traditional principles should be discarded when they no longer serve the needs of the economy. }, even the principles no longer serve the needs of the economy, we still can't discard those in that the conclusion said that If any policy could be justified by those appears to tradition. It would be the policy of determining the length of the school year according to the needs of the economy, so D is violate the conclusion. thus D is not correct!

不知道对不对....

rhod · 发表于 2004-6-22 20:13:00

hehe, 老兄在考验我读长句的能力啊...

其实不用想的那么复杂，作者的原意不是要disregard什么，所以D中的should be disregarded不能justify作者的话。

groundkeeper · 发表于 2004-6-23 09:50:00

以下是引用rhod在2004-6-22 20:13:00的发言：

hehe, 老兄在考验我读长句的能力啊...

其实不用想的那么复杂，作者的原意不是要disregard什么，所以D中的should be disregarded不能justify作者的话。

hehe, 是我想的太复杂了! rhod 老兄!

thanks your help!

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