小CASE的两个题目,我的拙见。Which of the following, if true, would most clearly undermine the author’s statement in the last sentence of the passage(lines 38-43) regarding the distribution of wealth in Western Pueblo settlements?信息题(逻辑削弱) - Only community members of exceptional wealth are likely to have been buried with their personal possessions.
- Members of communities with extensive agricultural systems are usually buried without personal possessions.
- Most artifacts found in burial sites were manufactured locally rather than imported from other communities.
- Burial artifacts are often ritual objects associated with religious practices rather than being the deceased’s personal possessions.
- The quality of burial artifacts varies depending on the site with which they are associated.
这一题的定位并不能完全限制在38-43行,还要再往前看:
an elite whose control over labor, the use of community sur- (35) pluses, and the acquisition of imported goods would have led to a concen- tration of economic resources in their own hands. 这几句说明作者的观点是:economic resources集中在某些人(elite)手中。 38-43行是作者用来证明他观点的证据(evidence of differential distribution):有些墓里有大量的宝贝,有些墓里面没有。作者以此来证明分布不均(集中),D选项说:这些宝贝是和一些宗教活动有关,而不是已故人的私人财富。
According to the passage, which of the following is probably true of the storage spaces mentioned in line 14? 信息题 - They were used by the community elite for storage of their own food supplies.
- They served a ceremonial as well as a practical function.
- Their size is an indication of the wealth of the particular community to which they belonged.
- Their existence proves that the community to which they belonged imported large amounts of food.
- They belonged to and were used by the community as a whole.
这个题应该是选E,我感觉E是对communal(注意原文中两次出现的communal)一词的解释,字典上对这个词的解释是:relating or belonging to all the people living in a particular community 而D里面的large amounts of在原文并没有提到,原文只是说:preserved the necessary extra food, including imported foodstuffs, |