OG(11th) Q48

[crazykai]

#48

Some anthoropologists study modern-day society of foragers in an effort to learn about our ancient ancestors who were also foragers. A flow in this strategy is that forager societies are extremely varied. Indeed, any forager society with which anthoropologists are familiar with has had considerable contact with modern, non-forager socities.

Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the criticism made above of the anthropologists's strategy?

(A)All forager societies throughout history have had a number of important features in commom that are absent from other types of socities.

(B)Most ancient forager societies either dissolve or made a transition to another way of life.

(C)All anthropologists study one kind or another of modern-day society.

(D)Many anthropologists who 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 socities.


The answer is (A) , but I'm confused with(B)

[yvetteliao]

此題在問weaken the criticism

criticism提到無法用研究現代的forager來得知古代forager的事蹟，而起原因在於forager society會與當代的非forager society接觸。

A選提到所有的forager society有一些共同特色，因此就可以weaken上述criticism的原因。(可以利用相同特色研究當代forager來得知古代forager)

B選提到大多數古代forager society會逐漸消失或轉換為另一種生活方式，則可以看成是呼應criticism，而非weaken。

[crazykai]

謝謝yvetteliao 我之前誤會他的意思了...orz|||

[lelapin]

還不是很懂內文耶 可以解釋一下嗎?感恩耶!

[dibert8]

Some anthoropologists study modern-day society 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 anthoropologists are familiar with has had considerable contact with modern, non-forager socities.

弱化 anthoropologists 欲鑑往知來,缺點是因為 forager 社團特性分歧,而且與現代 non-forager 社團接觸混合(分不出個別傳承的特性).

(A) common 弱化 varied

[lelapin]

喔喔 謝謝樓上的
了解囉!
varied & common一標出來
整個恍然大悟