OG11-48老题重谈(没人问过)

zhaoweijulia

48.   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.

(C) All 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没问题，但是OG对E的解释是strengthen，不明白，请哪位NN分析一下~！

[此贴子已经被作者于2009-1-23 9:45:21编辑过]

经常考试

Strengthen了Criticism

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文中的 Criticism：

学者所熟悉的（就是说所研究的）这些当今的 F 社会都跟其它当今非 F 社会都有接触（理解为：这种接触使这些当今 F 社会与古代 F 社会不同），所以研究这些当今 F 社会不能知道古代 F 社会是什么样子

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E：

除了这些学者熟悉的当今 F 社会 （即这些可能由于接触当今非 F 社会而与古代 F 社会不同的当今 F 社会）以外，其他的没有跟当今非 F 社会接触的当今 F 社会也已经跟古代 F 社会有了很大不同，所以当然加强批评了。

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例子：

想知道古代中国人的意识形态

选现在比较深山老林的地区研究，以为这些地区的人的意识形态经历千百年没有什么变化

批评说：这些地区的人已经很多都在天天看 CNN， 所以不可能由他们的思想推出古中国人的思想

E：这些地区的人里没有 Dish Network 和 DirecTV 的人也已经跟古中国人的思想有很大差异（言外之意，更不要说那些已经私自安小锅还没被抓的看 CNN 之人了）

所以 E 加强了批评

mavis_yang

解释的真透彻啊