高智威机经 文章二问题

AnnieZhuo

Since the 1970s, archaeological sites in China's Yangtze River region have yielded evidence of sophisticated rice-farming societies that predate signs of rice cultivation elsewhere in East Asia by a thousand years. Before this evidence was discovered, it had generally been assumed that rice farming began farther to the south. This scenario was based both on the geographic range of wild or free-living rice, which was not thought to extend as far north as the Yangtze, and on archaeological records of very early domestic rice from Southeast Asia and India (now known to be not so old as first reported). Proponents of the southern-origin theory point out that early rice-farming societies along the Yangtze were already highly developed and that evidence for the first stage of rice cultivation is missing. They argue that the first hunter-gatherers to develop rice agriculture must have done so in this southern zone, within the apparent present-day geographic range of wild rice.
Yet while most strands of wild rice reported in a 1984 survey were concentrated to the south of the Yangtze drainage, two northern outlier populations were also discovered in provinces along the middle and lower Yangtze, evidence that the Yangtze wetlands may fall within both the present-day and the historical geographic ranges of rice's wild ancestor.

2. 3. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage about the “southern-origin theory”?
A. The theory is based on an unconventional understanding of how hunter-gatherers first developed rice agriculture.
B. The theory fails to take into account the apparent fact that evidence for the first stage of rice cultivation in the north is missing.
C. The theory was developed primarily in response to a 1984 survey of wild rice's geographic range.
D. Reassessment of the dates of some archaeological evidence has undermined support for the theory.
E. Evidence of sophisticated rice-farming societies in the Yangtze region provides support for the theory.


选D
为什么不选E呢？ D文中也没用提到的呀

米兰的拿铁

米兰的拿铁 发表于 2013-6-9 17:49
这文章从第二段的Yet来强调削弱，第二段yet这个词用来转折，先用while说明上段的意思，之后说明转折的reass ...

。。。。忽略我的第二段话。。我理解错了。。

米兰的拿铁

这文章从第二段的Yet来强调削弱，第二段yet这个词用来转折，先用while说明上段的意思，之后说明转折的reassessment的成果"two northern..."。
所以文章其实本意还是说southern origin在1970的结论，然后重点说第二段的转折，也就是D的意思。

E错误是由于那个sophisticated rice-farming society的发现其实也是削弱southern origin theory的，因为southern origin是指"southeast Asia and India"，也就是文中第三行开头说的Farther to the south。

不知道我的理解正不正确。。。

vivian2011

盼大牛现身！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！

vivian2011

同问，为什么不选E? dates of  some archaeological evidence的日期在哪里？

zyf164

我也不懂，，这篇文章，我感觉是在说旧的理论，也就是southern-origin theory，是说家产水稻是由南方发展起来的，不是由长江流域，因为考古发现长江流域家产水稻已经很发达，而且没有最初发展阶段的证据，说明这个技术是由其他地方传入的。 但是新研究发现家产水稻可能是由长江流域发展起来的，因为在长江流域发现野生水稻？
这是我的理解，我不懂这个野生水稻在这些理论里面有什么作用，和水稻农业有什么联系。  

19911006

从70年代的within the apparent present-day geographic range of wild rice 到84年的within both the present-day and the historical geographic ranges of rice's wild ancestor.说明70年代的结论不对（因为整个范围变大了），所以后来的证据是对之前的理论的反驳