Some anthropologists study modern-day societies of foragers in an effort to learn about our ancient ancestors who were also foragers. A flaw in this strategy is that forager societies are extremely varied. Indeed, any forager society with which anthropologists are familiar has had considerable contact with modern, non-forager societies.
Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the criticism made above of the anthropologists' strategy?
39. Which of the following most logically completes the
argument?
Sviatovin is a medieval Moringian text whose author
and exact date of composition are unknown. However,
the events in the life of Prince Sviatov that the text
describes occurred in 1165, and inthe diagram of
Sviatov's family that accompanies the text his father,
who died in 1167, is identified as still living. Thus
Sviatovin must have been written between 1165 and
1167, assuming that
(C) the diagram accurately represents the composition of Sviatov's family at the time Sviatovin was written
C Correct. The reasoning in the argument assumes that the diagram was correct in representing the
Prince's father as still livingwhen the textwascomposed. If his fatherwas not livingwhen the
text was written, then the information that his father actually died in 1167 is no guarantee that the
text was composedby then.
解析C能帮我解释一下吗。。好迷惑。。。。
43题
43. Some anthropologists study modern-day societies of foragers in an effort to learn about our ancient
ancestors who were also foragers. Aflaw in this strategy is that forager societies are extremely varied.
Indeed, any forager society with which anthropologists are familiar has had considerable contact with
modern, non-forager societies.
Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the criticism made above of the anthropologists' strategy?
(A) All forager societies throughout history have had a number of important features in common that are
absent from other types of societies.
(B) Most ancient forager societies either dissolved or made a transition to another way of life.
(C) All anthropologists study one kind or another of modern-day society.
(D) Many anthropologistswho study modern-day forager societies do not draw inferences about ancient
societies on the basis of their studies.
(E) Even those modern-day forager societies that have not had significant contact with modern societies are
importantly different from ancient forager societies.
Argument Evaluation
Situation Studying contemporary foraging societies in order to understand ancient foragers is
flawed because forager societies are so widelyvaried and also because the contemporary
foragers have had so much contact with modern societies.
Reasoning Whichpointweakens this argument? The argument rejects the comparison of modern-day
foraging societies to ancient ones because of the variety of existing forager societies and
because the modern-dayforagers have been in contactwith other modern cultures.What
situationwould support making this comparison? What if modern-dayforagers remain
similar to ancient foragers because of nonchanging features of foraging societies
throughout history? If these are features that are not shared with other cultures, then the
argument that anthropologists cannot learn about ancient foragers by studying their
modern counterparts is weakened.
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一些人类学家通过学习当代的societies of foragers 来学习古代的foragers.
一个flaw:societies of foragers 变化很多。
Indeed:人类学家熟悉的 forager society 和当代的non-forager societies有很多接触。
问削弱。
A 如果说F society有些特点从古至今都有,且这些特点其他的社会都没有,那么通过学习当代的F society来学习古代的F society就是make sense的。
B 大多古代F society融合入或者过度到其他生活方式了。加强原文了。
C 所有人类学家只学一种或者另一种现代社会。无关。
D 一些现代社会学者并没有根据他们的研究推测古代社会。这个选项有点微加强原文说明这个方法是不对的。
E 即使那些当代的没怎么接触社会的F 社会也和古代F社会有很大不同。加强原文了。