Theater Critic: The play La Finestrina, now at Central Theater, was written in Italy in the eighteenth century. The director claims that this production is as similar to the original production as is possible in a modern theater. Although the actor who plays Harlequin the clown gives a performance very reminiscent of the twentieth-century American comedian Groucho Marx, Marx's comic style was very much within the comic acting tradition that had begun in sixteenth-century Italy.
The considerations given best serve as part of an argument that
102. Theater Critic: The play La Finestrina, now at Central Theater, was written in Italy in the eighteenth century. The director claims that this production is as similar to the original production as is possible in a modern theater. Although the actor who plays Harlequin the clown gives a performance very reminiscent of the twentieth-century American comedian Groucho Marx, Marx’s comic style was very much within the comic acting tradition that had begun in sixteenth-century Italy. The considerations given best serve as part of an argument that (A) modern audiences would fi nd it hard to tolerate certain characteristics of a historically accurate performance of an eighteenth-century play (B) Groucho Marx once performed the part of the character Harlequin in La Finestrina (C) in the United States the training of actors in the twentieth century is based on principles that do not differ radically from those that underlay the training of actors in eighteenth-century Italy (D) the performance of the actor who plays Harlequin in La Finestrina does not serve as evidence against the director’s claim (E) the director of La Finestrina must have advised the actor who plays Harlequin to model his performance on comic performances of Groucho Marx 这道题问什么都不懂
109. Springfi eld Fire Commissioner: The vast majority of false fi re alarms are prank calls made anonymously from fi re alarm boxes on street corners. Since virtually everyone has access to a private telephone, these alarm boxes have outlived their usefulness. Therefore, we propose to remove the boxes. Removing the boxes will reduce the number of prank calls without hampering people’s ability to report a fi re. Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the claim that the proposal, if carried out, will have the announced effect? (A) The fi re department traces all alarm calls made from private telephones and records where they came from. (B) Maintaining the fi re alarm boxes costs Springfi eld approximately $5 million annually. (C) A telephone call can provide the fi re department with more information about the nature and size of a fi re than can an alarm placed from an alarm box. (D) Responding to false alarms signifi cantly reduces the fi re department’s capacity for responding to fi res. (E) On any given day, a signifi cant percentage of the public telephones in Springfi eld are out of service.
文中并没有表示对director claims质疑的信息,而且从"actor plays the clown reminiscent of→GM(within traditional)"这样的关系来看,这个evidence不但不与claims相悖,反而是支持的;虽然我们并不能得出evidence支持claims,但至少可以说do not against;