还有1周要考了！GWD-13-24-26主题题请教！

rainbooow

Anthropologists studying the

       Hopi people of the southwestern

       United States often characterize

Line       Hopi society between 1680 and

  (5)      1880 as surprisingly stable, con-

sidering that it was a period of

diminution in population and

pressure from contact with out-

side groups, factors that might

 (10)      be expected to cause signifi-

cant changes in Hopi social

arrangements.

      The Hopis’ retention of their

distinctive sociocultural system

 (15)      has been attributed to the Hopi

religious elite’s determined

efforts to preserve their religion

and way of life, and also to a

geographical isolation greater

 (20)      than that of many other Native

       American groups, an isolation

       that limited both cultural contact

and exposure to European

diseases.  But equally important

 (25)      to Hopi cultural persistence may

have been an inherent flexibility

in their social system that may

have allowed preservation of

traditions even as the Hopis

 (30)      accommodated themselves

to change.  For example, the

system of matrilineal clans was

       maintained throughout this per-

iod, even though some clans

 (35)     merged to form larger groups

while others divided into smaller

descent groups.  Furthermore,

although traditionally members

       of particular Hopi clans appear

 (40)      to have exclusively controlled

particular ceremonies, a clan’s

control of a ceremony might

shift to another clan if the first

became too small to manage

 (45)      the responsibility.  Village

leadership positions tradition-

ally restricted to members of

one clan might be similarly

extended to members of other

 (50)      clans, and women might assume

such positions under certain

unusual conditions.

GWD-13-Q26:

The passage is primarily concerned with

             

A.      reassessing a phenomenon in light of new findings

B.     assessing the relative importance of two factors underlying a phenomenon

C.     examining the assumptions underlying an interpretation of a phenomenon

D.     expanding on an explanation of a phenomenon

E.   contrasting two methods for evaluating a phenomenon  

                                                                                                       Answer

我选C，原文第二段肯定不止一个EXPLANATION啊，为什么会选D呢？希望NN解释一下，万分感谢！

kitebird

我不是NN，尝试解释一下。

这篇文章是典型的结论解释型。

文章第二段enplanation都是在解释这个部落文化传统的stable的。

我想D中的an并不是说你指的第二段中有几个explanation

还有C中的examining不好，再说C也用了an，按照你的说法那也不对了。

rainbooow

就是意思是说这是对总体的解释，矛瑟顿开啊，感谢！