求教PERP的第6篇阅读，求NN们或者版主打救！

DUKB24

Essay 6Colonial historian David Allen's intensive study of five communities in seventeenth-century Massachusetts is a model of meticulous scholarship on the detailed microcosmic level, and is convincing up to a point.Allen suggests that much more coherence and direct continuity existed between English and colonial agricultural practices and administrative organization than other historians have suggested.However, he overstates his case with the declaration that he has proved "the remarkable extent to which diversity in New England local institutions was directly imitative of regional differences in the mother country."
Such an assertion ignores critical differences between seventeenth-century England and New England.First, England was overcrowded and land-hungry; New England was sparsely populated and labor-hungry.Second, England suffered the normal European rate of mortality; New England, especially in the first generation of English colonists, was virtually free from infectious diseases.Third, England had an all-embracing state church; in New England membership in a church was restricted to the elect.Fourth, a high proportion of English villagers lived under paternalistic resident squires; no such class existed in New England.By narrowing his focus to village institutions and ignoring these critical differences, which studies by Greven, Demos, and Lockridge have shown to be so important, Allen has created a somewhat distorted picture of reality.
Allen's work is a rather extreme example of the "country community" school of seventeenth-century English history whose intemperate excesses in removing all national issues from the history of that period have been exposed by Professor Clive Holmes.What conclusion can be drawn, for example, from Allen's discovery that Puritan clergy who had come to the colonies from East Anglia were one-third to one-half as likely to return to England by 1660 as were Puritan ministers from western and northern England?We are not told in what way, if at all, this discovery illuminates historical understanding.Studies of local history have enormously expanded our horizons, but it is a mistake for their authors to conclude that village institutions are all that mattered, simply because their functions are all that the records of village institutions reveal.


It can be inferred from the passage that the author of the passage considers Allen's "discovery" (see highlighted text) to be
(A)already known to earlier historians
(B)based on a logical fallacy
(C)improbable but nevertheless convincing
(D)an unexplained, isolated fact
(E)a new, insightful observation
这里本人选了C，答案是E，我很奇怪这里的Cconvincing为什么不对，文章一开头不是已经说了一句convicing up to a piont？难道是这句话是一句陈述句并不代表作者的态度？？？？D中的isolated会不会太绝对化了一点？？？？

It can be inferred from the passage that the author of the passage considers Allen's "discovery" (see highlighted text) to be
(A)already known to earlier historians
(B)based on a logical fallacy
(C)improbable but nevertheless convincing
(D)an unexplained, isolated fact
(E)a new, insightful observation
这里本人选了C，答案是E，我很奇怪这里的Cconvincing为什么不对，文章一开头不是已经说了一句convicing up to a piont？难道是这句话是一句陈述句并不代表作者的态度？？？？D中的isolated会不会太绝对化了一点？？？？

kathy0911

这篇文章整个就是在对Allen的study的质疑啊。 虽然前面有说convincing, but up to a point. 也就是对他说的东西打问号。第一段就立即对他所断言的："the remarkable extent to which diversity in New England local institutions was directly imitative of regional differences in the mother country." 进行了反驳。还举了4点来论证。通过这一点得出最后结论说： Allen has created a somewhat distorted picture of reality. 第二段句首就说他看问题太绝对。总是用一些rather extreme example，然后把一些重大的国家问题从历史中孤立开
所以最后这个Allen's discovery就是举例证明他看问题非常不logical。
最后不是说： We are not told in what way, if at all, this discovery illuminates historical understanding. 把, if at all, 去掉看，其实就是在质疑他的这个discovery的legitimacy.

（A）真没提过
（B）真心不logical
（C）important??? convincing??? 看不出来
（D）看起来最像正确答案
（E）insightful?这么褒义的词语。。。nonono

这篇文章第二段其实有点难理解。 我也是看了2遍，但是第一段就一直在否认Allen，所以照个思路看第二段应该也是继续”歌颂“他。

xxaixx

我今天做prep12，给的答案是D啊。。。更迷茫。。。

fantasy198

我觉得也是c  是不是看错答案了？

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