Excavations of the Roman city of Sepphoris have uncovered numerous detailed mosaics depicting several readily identifiable animal species: a hare, a partridge, and various Mediterranean fish. Oddly, most of the species represented did not live in the Sepphoris region when these mosaics were created. Since identical motifs appear in mosaics found in other Roman cities, however, the mosaics of Sepphoris were very likely created by traveling artisans from some other part of the Roman Empire.
Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?
求问C选项怎么理解?看不懂? C是不是对原文削弱了? 19. GWD-23-Q32 EExcavations of the Roman city of Sepphoris have uncovered numerous detailedmosaics depicting several readily identifiable animal species: a hare, a partridge, and variousMediterranean fish. Oddly, most of thespecies represented did not live in the Sepphoris region when these mosaics werecreated. Since identical motifs appearin mosaics found in other Roman cities, however, the mosaics of Sepphoris werevery likely created by traveling artisans from some other part of the Roman Empire.
Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?
A. ! The Sepphoris mosaics are not composed exclusively oftypes of stones found naturally in the Sepphoris area.
B. There is no single region to which all the species depictedin the Sepphoris mosaics are native.
C. No motifs appear in the Sepphoris mosaics that do not alsoappear in the mosaics of some other Roman city.
D. All of the animal figures in the Sepphoris mosaics arereadily identifiable as representations of known species.
E. There was not a common repertory of mosaic designs withwhich artisans who lived in various parts of the Roman Empire were familiar. 他因否定