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看了这么多大神的解释,终于从一头雾水到开始懂了一点,非常感谢。前面对b的解释已经非常清楚了,我想再贴一个对e的理解。来自gmatclub的@gmatninja
We are trying to determine whether participating in social interaction (i.e. talking to other people) engages many mental and perceptual skills and thus helps people maintain mental sharpness as they age, just as solving crossword puzzles or mathematics problems does. The evidence in support of this theory is that the more social contact people report, the better their mental skills.
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(E) The tasks evaluating mental sharpness for which data were compiled by the study were more akin to mathematics problems than to conversation.
According to the study, if you had more social contact, then you generally had better mental skills. But how were those mental skills measured? What if the tasks used to evaluate mental sharpness were more akin to CONVERSATION than to math problems? All that would show is that people with more social contact are better at conversation (duh!). That doesn't really support the idea that social contact can REPLACE math problems and crossword puzzles as a way to maintain mental sharpness.
However, what if the tasks used to evaluate mental sharpness were more akin to MATHEMATICS problems than to conversation? That would suggest that social contact COULD replace math problems as a way to stay sharp. In other words, you don't NEED math problems to stay sharp with mathematical tasks. Rather, you could use social contact to stay sharp with mathematical tasks. That could strengthen the argument.
I hope that helps! |
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