求助OG13 CR Q104！！！！

小K110

104. Theater Critic:The play La Finestrina, now at Central Theater, was written in Italy in theeighteenth century. The director claims that this production is as similar tothe original production as is possible in a modern theater. Although the actorwho plays Harlequin the clown gives a performance very reminiscent of thetwentieth-century American comedian Groucho Marx, Marx’s comic style was verymuch within the comic acting tradition that had begun in sixteenth-centuryItaly.

The considerationsgiven best serve as part of an argument that

(A) modern audienceswould find it hard to tolerate certain characteristics of a historicallyaccurate performance of an eighteenth-century play

(B) Groucho Marx onceperformed the part of the character Harlequin in LaFinestrina

(C) in the UnitedStates the training of actors in the twentieth century is based on principlesthat do not differ radically from those that underlay the training of actors ineighteenth-century Italy

(D) the performanceof the actor who plays Harlequin in LaFinestrina does not serve as evidenceagainst the director’s claim

(E) the director of La Finestrina must have advised the actor who plays Harlequin to model his performanceon comic performances of Groucho Marx

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richardliu6

你好，这倒题目其实问的是作者的主要观点，也就是从文章推出结论。although在这边很重要，although the actor 让人想起了二十世纪的G M这个人，但是这个人的风格起源于16世纪风格。这句话其实就是废话，因为它没有支持Director的观点也没有反对。d选项说the actor没有反对direcor的观点。the actor 就是although后的那句，没支持Director也没有反对的。

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Step one of the Kaplan method tells us to read the question stem, and then to determine the kind of question that it is. The question stem:

“The considerations given best serve as part of an argument that”

Okay, so there are considerations given (by the author) leading up to an argument. The “considerations given” is evidence, and the question wants us to determine the author’s main point, or conclusion. We call this type of question a “main point” question.

Step two is to analyze the stimulus: Normally, we identify a conclusion by looking for words like “thus, therefore, hence, etc.” .... BUT, in a main point question, we actually don’t want to be attracted by those kind of words-they are put there by the test-maker because they know you will naturally be attracted to them in a main point question.

Instead, in a main point question, the author’s main point will often be signalled by a contrast keyword such as “but,” “however,” “while,” or, “although.”

In the passage of this question, we learn of the director’s claim in the second sentence. The director’s claim is that their reproduction of the play is a lot like the original play. The next sentence starts with the word “although.” Here, the function of “although” is to dismiss potential counter-evidence against the director’s claim: the fact that the actor is like 20th century Groucho Marx could be used against the director’s claim (that the reproduction is a faithful representation of the original 16th century version.)

So from the word “although,” and using some critical reasoning, we can determine that the author’s intent in arguing is to defend the director’s claim against evidence that could go against it (against the director’s claim).

Step three of the method is to make a prediction of the right answer. Say to yourself: “The author is defending the director. The author’s main point is that the director’s claim is correct.”

Step four is to aggressively scan for a match to the prediction. Because we spent so much time generating the prediction, and because we don’t care about wrong answers and why they are wrong, we scan for a choice that matches our insight.

Then, choice D is correct.

Because we don’t care about why wrong answers are wrong, and because wrong answers are written by the test-maker to be very tempting, whenever it is possible to predict and match, we should do that instead of over-using POE