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ahmie

Prevailing scholarly opinion holds that modern science began with the great achievements of the scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Modern science should not, however, be identified with any particular set of scientific achievements. Rather, modern science should be identified with a particular way of approaching the study of nature, and many important elements of this approach were already in place and articulated as early as the fourteenth century. Jean Buridan, a prominent fourteenth-century Parisian scholar, argued that science is predicated on the assumption of the “common course of nature” This profound assumption represented a major shift in scholarly focus from the theological investigation of the uncommon or miraculous to the attempted explanation of the regular structure and operation of the world in purely rational and secular terms. Buridan also advocated the application of Occam’s razor, the principle that science should seek the simplest possible explanation that fits the evidence. The one important ingredient of modern science that was missing prior to the sixteenth century was the widespread use of experiments, and the scientific revolution of the sixteenth century began when scientists started to use experiments to discover new answers to questions that had already been pondered for several centuries.

. The primary purpose of the passage is to

(A) qualify an established scholarly viewpoint regarding a certain issue
(B) summarize prevailing scholarly opinion regarding a certain issue
(C) delineate the historical events that led to a change in scholarly opinion
(D) reconcile conflicting viewpoints in a debate
(E) recommend further inquiry into a particular topic

OA:A
在我看来是反对Prevailing point啊 为什么是qualify呢 求大家讨论！！！

千禧虫虫

这道题我也错了。但是，看看答案就能想明白，qualify是有验证的意思。
google到的翻译：make (a statement or assertion) less absolute; add reservations to.
所以其实并不是完全反对，就是提供了其他思考角度来加以验证之前的point

ahmie

千禧虫虫 发表于 2018-1-9 21:43
这道题我也错了。但是，看看答案就能想明白，qualify是有验证的意思。
google到的翻译：make (a statement  ...

可以解释一下 并不是完全反对 是在哪里吗 我看第二句however 以为是直接反驳观点

千禧虫虫

ahmie 发表于 2018-1-9 22:43
可以解释一下 并不是完全反对 是在哪里吗 我看第二句however 以为是直接反驳观点 ...

因为一开始说modern science began with great achievements,虽然第二句说了however,但我觉得并不是完全反驳，只是为了增加enhanced 理论。因为下文中也提到了，虽然科学思想很早提出来，但是直到16世纪有科学实验了，才有更多的achievement。

ahmie

千禧虫虫 发表于 2018-1-10 00:46
因为一开始说modern science began with great achievements,虽然第二句说了however,但我觉得并不是完全反 ...

啊 我懂了 非常感谢！