求教OG 12 -45，拜托大家了

cherryruj

45.Some anthropologists study modern-day societies of foragers in an effort to learn about our ancient ancestors who were also foragers. A flaw in this strategy is that forager societies are extremely varied. Indeed, any forager society with which anthropologists are familiar has had considerable contact with modern, non-forager societies.
Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the criticism made above of the anthropologists' strategy?
(A)All forager societies throughout history have had
a number of important features in common that
are absent from other types of societies.

(B)Most ancient forager societies either dissolved
or made a transition to another way of life.

(0All anthropologists study one kind or another of
modern-day society.

(D)Many anthropologists who study modern-day
forager societies do not draw inferences about
ancient societies on the basis of their studies.

(E)Even those modern-day forager societies that
have not had significant contact with modern
societies are importantly different from ancient
forager societies.

答案是A
题目：The argument 反对比较现代和古代的foraging societies，因为两点原因：1现存foraging societies的多样性，2现在的foraging societies与现在的non-foraging societies接触多。看哪个选项使这个批评削弱。
我想问的是D选项的解释 说人类学家可能认为这个comparision是没用的，为什么就没有weaken这个argument呢？
说comparision没用不与削弱这个批评到底有什么样的不同，我感觉有一点，但是还是想不清楚。
拜托大家帮我看看咯。

everine

"weaken the criticism"意思就是supporting the anthropologists~
所以只能选A我觉得

buda

D:whether anthropologists draw inferences has no relationship with the topic.
A: the article said that we cannot use modern  foragers to analyze ancient ancestors because they had considerable contacts with non-forager societies. But A said:there are  important features in common within foragers  which non-forager societies don't have

wangsiwei

同意1楼。绕来绕去其实就是问怎么支持原来做法。
D与主题无关，没有涉及到现在的研究

weijiejing

D:whether anthropologists draw inferences has no relationship with the topic.
A: the article said that we cannot use modern  foragers to analyze ancient ancestors because they had considerable contacts with non-forager societies. But A said:there are  important features in common within foragers  which non-forager societies don't have

-- by 会员 buda (2010/7/23 23:20:10)

这个是因为premise里的extremly varied吧...A说common正好对应premise里的varied, weaken...

jiangyibq

D. 考古学家的strategy是研究现在了解过去，如果他们"do not draw inferences about ancient societies on the basis of their studies."那说明他们的stategy没用咯，不选

supermario5

看题目：in an effort to learn about our ancestors.
所以如果按照D所说，人类学家们研究现代foragers不是为了得出有关古代社会的结论，那就连他们最初研究的目的in effort to都否定了，那这个研究方法就是彻彻底底地失败了啊。