[求助]再文L4-1-15

Q: Seventy to ninety years ago, however, children were punished for using their left hands to eat or to write and were forced to use their right hands.

Q’s response serves to counter any use by M of the evidence about 85 to 90 year olds in supports of which one of the following hypotheses?

(A) Being born right-handed confers a survival advantage.

(B) Societal attitudes toward handedness differ at different times.

(C) Forcing a person to switch from a preferred hand is harmless.

(D) Handedness is a product of both genetic predisposition and social pressures.

(E) Physical habits learned in school often persist in old age.

I have a question on understanding the following sentence:

Q’s response serves to counter any use by M of the evidence about 85 to 90 year olds in supports of which one of the following hypotheses?

Mindfree's explanation:


You    misunderstood    the    question.    What    the    question    asked    was    the    hypothesis    of    M's.    I    think    the    question    can    be    re-written    as:
Q    counters    M's    evidence,    which    is    used    to    support    which    of    the    following    hypothesis.    


So    the    answer    is    M's    hypothesis    supported    by    M's    evidence.



But sometimes I might consider that it is Q's hypothesis:请看看我的两种断句方式


1.Q’s response serves to counter （any use by M of the evidence about 85 to 90 year olds－作counter的宾语）(Q's response支持了... in supports of which one of the following hypotheses?) Q's hypothesis


2. Q’s response serves to counter (any use by M of the evidence about 85 to 90 year olds in supports of which one of the following hypotheses?) M's hypothesis.


I am confused. Can anyone help me?

个人觉得问题的理解是这样的：

Q’s response serves to counter any use by M of the evidence about 85 to 90 year olds in supports of which one of the following hypotheses? Q的回答使M不能运用有关85至95岁老人的论据来支持下列哪项假设？ 即，问题问的是M的hypotheses是什么？因为从语法的角度考虑，应该是 use of the evidence by M in supports of …, (运用论据来支持…) 似乎不可能是 Q’s response counters the use of the evidence by M and is in supports of…(削弱了M对论据的使用，并支持…) 我这是严重的事后诸葛亮，还要请大家一起赐教。

不过这道题让我想到了另一个方面，就是随着做题越来越多，习惯了对ETS逻辑题的出题方向进行猜测有时也可能误导人，（虽然这种题感绝大多数时间是好的，大幅度提高了做题速度）， 我近来已经因为预测出题方向把多道细审题目就不该做错的问题给做错了，真是汗颜。（当然这从另一方面也暴露了自己的阅读还是没有达到足够的水平）