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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 nonforager 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.（A）

(E) Even those
modern-day forager societies that have not had significant contact with modern
societies are importantly different from ancient forager societies.





A, but why? thanks

cranberry

the author of this passage argued that the strategy    was    wrong cos'    the subject must have changed    a lot in the course of contact with others.so we should    find an explanation    that this contact may not change its character and it is still worthy of study.


so     

小女公子

题目老有些读不懂。请问，contact with others，ａｓ　ｃｒａｂｅｒｒｙ　ｍｅｔｉｏｎｅｄ　ａｂｏｖｅ，就是ｃｏｎｔａｃｔ　ｗｉｔｈ　ｎｏｎｆｒａｇｅｒ　ｓｏｃｉｅｔｉｅｓ？？

ｔｈａｎｋｓ　ａ　ｌｏｔ

还有，请问谁能把题目翻译一下吗？我实在没有读出ｆａｒａｇｅ会ｃｈａｎｇｅ的意思来

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一起加油的夥伴

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 nonforager societies.

我試著翻譯看看,

一些當代的人類學家去研究狩獵的社會的祖先,然而這個研究中卻存在著一個錯誤,也就是狩獵的社會是極度的不同的,事實上,人類學家所熟悉的狩獵社會跟現代的非狩獵社會市有大量上的接觸(也就是有

融合的相同)

要Weaken,

所以要選 A, 說明了狩獵跟非狩獵社會存在著不同處

A) All forager societies throughout history have had a number of important features in common that are absent from other types of societies.

歡迎指正

lesley0927

一起加油的夥伴 发表于 2005-11-16 16:44
Some anthropologists study modern-daysocieties of foragers in an effort to learn about our ancient a ...

其实我觉得最后一句话就是weaken了，真不明白加在这里这么明显做什么

InfiniteAlex

thanks a lot