PREP 114， 急~~~

nanisoga

Excavations of the Roman city of Sepphoris have uncovered numerous detailed mosaics depicting several readily identifiable animal species:a hare, a partridge, and various Mediterranean fish.Oddly, most of the species represented did not live in the Sepphoris region when these mosaics were created.Since identical motifs appear in mosaics found in other Roman cities, however, the mosaics of Sepphoris were very likely created by traveling artisans from some other part of the Roman Empire.

Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?

A. The Sepphoris mosaics are not composed exclusively of types of stones found naturally in the Sepphoris area.

B. There is no single region to which all the species depicted in the Sepphoris mosaics are native.

C. No motifs appear in the Sepphoris mosaics that do not also appear in the mosaics of some other Roman city.

D. All of the animal figures in the Sepphoris mosaics are readily identifiable as representations of known species.

E. There was not a common repertory of mosaic designs with which artisans who lived in various parts of the Roman Empire were familiar.
答案 E
感觉本题A B E 都有一定的道理，不解。。。

wangsiwei

这样的题不要多想。其实最终的结论就是 traveling artisans 制造了mosaics。assumption通常就是不是别的制造了M。而E就是排除另外的可能性。这样的题都是这样解法。A-->B,排除C-->B的情况。

A－－stone新词，而且与结论关系不大
B－－有没有region与结论无关。

assumption的答案通常会带有部分结论的词，如果没有，大体读一下，就可以排除了。