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WONDERLAND2004

没有感觉，请大师帮忙分析分析。谢谢先。

Q18:

Although the earliest surviving Greek inscriptions written in an alphabet date from the eighth century B.C., a strong case can be made that the Greeks actually adopted alphabetic writing at least two centuries earlier.  Significantly, the text of these earliest surviving Greek inscriptions sometimes runs from right to left and sometimes from left to right.  Now, the Greeks learned alphabetic writing from the Phoenicians, and in the process they would surely have adopted whatever convention the Phoenicians were then using with respect to the direction of writing.  Originally, Phoenician writing ran in either direction, but by the eighth century B.C. it had been consistently written from right to left for about two centuries.

In the argument given, the two portions in boldface play which of the following roles?

1. The first is the position that the argument seeks to establish; the second reports a discovery that has been used to support a position that the argument opposes.


2. The first is the position that the argument seeks to establish; the second presents an assumption on which the argument relies.


3. The first presents evidence that is used in support of the position that the argument seeks to establish; the second presents an assumption on which the argument relies.


4. The first is an objection raised against a position that the argument opposes; the second is the position that the argument seeks to establish.


5. The first is an objection raised against a position that the argument opposes; the second is evidence that has been used to support that position.

arundhati

wonderland gg喜欢问boldface题哦，boldface题大多是把题目看懂，看准连接词就没问题了。

这题是选B吧？这段分为两部分：

1. 尽管希腊碑铭被定为BC800年，其实它应该早200年（第一个boldface）（文章所要论述的结论）。

2. G从P那里学到这种文字，they would surely 学习他们的任何写字习惯（这点并没有依据，仅仅为作者的假设）（第二个boldface），因为G所模范的P这种习惯比BC800年还要早200年，所以进而支持结论。

所以只有B符合要求。

WONDERLAND2004

arundhati  MM，你真牛！

谢谢。我确实觉得B/F题很搞。太抽象，所以误判率高于其他逻辑题。

philikittist

我对答案没有疑异。但是题目里的now干扰了我很久，这个地方为什么用now,是不是这个词打错了，是know什么的？

Although the earliest surviving Greek inscriptions written in an alphabet date from the eighth century B.C., a strong case can be made that the Greeks actually adopted alphabetic writing at least two centuries earlier.  Significantly, the text of these earliest surviving Greek inscriptions sometimes runs from right to left and sometimes from left to right.  Now, the Greeks learned alphabetic writing from the Phoenicians, and in the process they would surely have adopted whatever convention the Phoenicians were then using with respect to the direction of writing.  Originally, Phoenician writing ran in either direction, but by the eighth century B.C. it had been consistently written from right to left for about two centuries.

[此贴子已经被作者于2004-8-10 15:19:02编辑过]

ricky663

就是啊，我也觉得这个NOW是最令人费解的地方，是不是写错了？还是我们看错弄错搞错拜托

valarie

I was pussled by this "now" too.

cowslip

偶开始也对这个now很是困惑，导致这个题目的先后逻辑关系被搞颠倒了。后来特意查了一下关于这个now，它还有另外的意思是

1 （用于引起注意） Be careful, now! 喂，小心！

2  now做为conj. 有“既然”的意思，此处now更多应该是充当了这个作用的

哪位nn有更好的解释，请给予指正啊！

g077126

thx  cowslip

tuzq

天哪，这个 要命的now

eSpirit

题目在NOW前说公元前8世纪时G的写法从左往右写的有，从右往左写的也有，这里的now的意思是2世纪后的“现在”，即公元前6世纪。