GWD-3-32 很抱歉没有找到这道题

graceguo98

很抱歉，由于搜到的题号和这道题不对应，只好发新帖。

GWD-3-32

Ecologist:  The Scottish Highlands were once the site of extensive forests, but these forests have mostly disappeared and been replaced by peat bogs.  The common view is that the Highlands’ deforestation was [MSOffice1] caused by human activity, especially agriculture. However, agriculture began in the Highlands less than 2,000 years ago.  Peat bogs, which consist of compressed decayed vegetable matter, build up by only about one foot per 1,000 years and, throughout the Highlands, remains of trees in peat bogs are almost all at depths great than four feet.  Since climate changes that occurred between 7,000 and 4,000 years ago favored the development of peat bogs rather than the survival of forests, the deforestation was more likely the result of natural processes than of human activity.

 

In the ecologist’s argument the two portions in boldface play which of the following roles?

 

1. The first is evidence that has been used in support of a position that the ecologist rejects; the second is a finding that the ecologist uses to counter that evidence.
2. The first is evidence that, in light of the evidence provided in the second, serves as grounds for the ecologist’s rejection of a certain position.
3. The first is a position that the ecologist rejects; the second is evidence that has been used in support of that position.
4. The first is a position that the ecologist rejects; the second provides evidence [MSOffice2] in support of that rejection.
5. The first is a position for which the ecologist argues; the second provides evidence to support that position.

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 请NN解释为什么A错，B正确， 我是这样理解CDE错的原因的，仅个人理解而已

A的前半部分应该没有问题-一个证据论证，“第二部分的黑体词是一个生态学家用来反对论证的发现”有什么错误吗？

C错；“第一部分是ecologist反对的立场”---正确，“第二部分是一个证据用来支持的立场”----错，作者也不支持第二部分（熟的残留物），作者认为自然现象天气是主要原因

D错。“第二部分也提供了证据支持第一部分的反对，”也就是说，第二部分-----是提供证据关于反对农业活动引起的，显然不正确

E错：
                                            “第一部分生态学家有争议的立场”---第一部分是生态学家直接反对的，不是有争议的。

谢谢

D错。“第二部分也提供了证据支持第一部分的反对，”也就是说，第二部分-----是提供证据关于反对农业活动引起的，显然不正确

E错：
                            “第一部分生态学家有争议的立场”---第一部分是生态学家直接反对的，不是有争议的。

谢谢

NOmoreTears

所有boldface题三步完成 

第一步 读全文 找出核心论点（不是中间论点） 读出转折含义 核心论点通常藏在转折之后和句末

第二步 看boldface句同前后句的关系（无转折既是逻辑上的延续） 分清是boldface句为其中某句服务还是某句为boldface句服务

第三步 推出两个boldface句之间的逻辑关系（逻辑要求最高） 此题A项就错在这里

请按照此方法再分析一遍题目 如还有理解困难请告之

pakaskwa

A 的错主要是后半句“the second is a finding that the ecologist uses to counter that evidence”。第二句没有去反对这个证据，说农业没有出现在2000年之前。其实它认可了农业的出现时间，并通过比较农业出现的时间和 remains 存留的时间，来证明 peat bog 出现在农业之前。

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