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joe11

oh... 搞清楚了，content 是内容，context 是上下文， 看错了。 呵呵~

排除A, 那就只能选E 了。 虽然欧认为第一个BF几乎没有什么支持的道理。

leeon

Historian:  In the Drindian Empire, censuses were conducted annually to determine the population of each village.  Village census records for the last half of the 1600’s are remarkably complete.  This very completeness makes one point stand out; in five different years, villages overwhelmingly reported significant population declines.  Tellingly, each of those five years immediately followed an increase in a certain Drindian tax.  This tax, which was assessed on villages, was computed by the central government using the annual census figures.  Obviously, whenever the tax went up, villages had an especially powerful economic incentive to minimize the number of people they recorded; and concealing the size of a village’s population from government census takers would have been easy.  Therefore, it is reasonable to think that the reported declines did not happen.

In the historian’s argument, the two portions in boldface play which of the following roles?

1. The first supplies a context for the historian’s argument; the second acknowledges a consideration that has been used to argue against the position the historian seeks to establish.

2. The first presents evidence to support the position that the historian seeks to establish; the second acknowledges a consideration that has been used to argue against that position.

3. The first provides a context for certain evidence that supports the position that the historian seeks to establish; the second is that position.

4. The first is a position for which the historian argues; the second is an assumption that serves as the basis of that argument.

5. The first is an assumption that the historian explicitly makes in arguing for a certain position; the second acknowledges a consideration that calls that assumption into question.

[C]把那道GWD翻出来了。这道题的答案要友好一些。

看样子还是E正确一些。

lanslot

我认为是A对，第一句话是“最后的结果”，也是题目主题所确认的“正确的事件”。

题目的逻辑顺序是：（公司打算这么做），有人问了你这样做能（在一定前提下）成立吗？然后因为什么因为什么，然后公司最后这么做了。

倒叙手法。

按照ETS的逻辑，能用结果支持结果自己吗？我觉得不能，所以E不可能对。第一个BF不是evidence而是result，result自身是不能支持result的。

hpp920

看看哪个答案都不象. 这题的主结论是这个吗?The answer, clearly, is yes.

请NN指点!

windweed

content 是内容,  所以A 一定是错的. 第一句是个事实, 不是结论

E 对!

helenefz

如果A中的contend是context，支持选A。

legendbird

虽然A中的content用的有点诡异,但是E实在是无法让人信服.应该是由conclusion导致BF1才对,而不是BF1支持了conclusion.  E不对.

Pudding

其實我覺得BF1更像是個premise, 因為沒有這個答案選項, 我覺得最接近的應該是E了...

rainow

支持E,
第一句是facts，不是结论，它是由结论导致的事实，反过来，这个事实从另一个侧面support了结论

lurenjia

第一眼看到A就到后面找‘Another Error by ETS!', 可惜没找到。。

如果是context的话， A is the best. (content??? 诡异的词）
如果不是的话。。。 hm。。。还是选A.....