GWD3-Q13的个人理解，请大家指点

abixiaoxinyue

In its 1903 decision in the case of Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock, the United States Supreme Court rejected the efforts of three Native American tribes to prevent the opening of tribal lands to non-Indian settlement without tribal consent.
In his study of the Lone Wolf case, Blue Clark properly emphasizes the Court’s assertion of a virtually unlimited unilateral power of Congress (the House of Representatives and the Senate) over Native American affairs.
But he fails to note the decision’s more far-reaching impact:
shortly after Lone Wolf, the federal government totally abandoned negotiation and execution of formal written agreements with Indian tribes as a prerequisite for the implementation of federal Indian policy.
Many commentators believe that this change had already occurred in 1871 when—following a dispute between the House and the Senate over which chamber should enjoy primacy in Indian affairs—Congress abolished the making of treaties with Native American tribes.
But in reality the federal government continued to negotiate formal tribal agreements past the turn of the century, treating these documents not as treaties with sovereign nations requiring ratification by the Senate but simply as legislation to be passed by both houses of Congress. The Lone Wolf decision ended this era of formal negotiation and finally did away with what had increasingly become the empty formality of obtaining tribal consent.

第13题 According to the passage, which of the following was true of relations between the federal government and Native American tribes?

A.
Some Native American tribes approved of the congressional action of 1871 because it simplified their dealings with the federal government.

B.
Some Native American tribes were more eager to negotiate treaties with the United States after the Lone Wolf decision.

C.
Prior to the Lone Wolf decision, the Supreme Court was reluctant to hear cases involving agreements negotiated between Congress and Native American tribes.

D.
Prior to 1871, the federal government sometimes negotiated treaties with Native American tribes.

E.
Following 1871, the House exercised more power than did the Senate in the government’s dealings with Native American tribes.

GWD的分析是对于shortly after Lone Wolf, the
federal government totally abandoned
negotiation and execution of formal
written agreements with Indian tribes
as a prerequisite for the implementation of federal Indian policy.
取非

我不同意这个说法，这个取非说法只能是说在1871年至1903年间政府和当地人有协商，跟不无法得知早于1871年的情况，我认为是我黄色背景的哪句话可以看出，政府在1871coutinued这个词可以说明之前也是在协商的。

请大家分析分析，仅供参考

georgina1107

我觉得选E。
理由：
D：从原文“ treating these documents not as treaties”看出政府不是谈treaty
E：原文定位：
“Blue Clark properly emphasizes the Court’s assertion of a virtually unlimited unilateral power of Congress”：这是指1903年之后的事情；
“ Many commentators believe that this change had already occurred in 1871”：表明这种变化（Congress has more power）早在1871年就开始了；
所以我认为选E。

citidandan

我觉得选D对，但是是用排除法选出来的，我对D里面的修饰词sometimes感觉不是很好，但其他选项都不行
A.      Some Native American tribes approved of the congressional action of 1871 because it simplified their dealings with the federal government.
NA有没有同意没说
B.       Some Native American tribes were more eager to negotiate treaties with the United States after the Lone Wolf decision.
NA热不热切也没说
C.      Prior to the Lone Wolf decision, the Supreme Court was reluctant to hear cases involving agreements negotiated between Congress and Native American tribes.
法庭的态度没说，只是用了法庭废了NA的一个反对意项
E.Following 1871, the House exercised more power than did the Senate in the government’s dealings with Native American tribes.这个迷惑性比较大，但是文章里说1871后，treating these documents not as treaties with sovereign nations requiring ratification by the Senate but simply as legislation to be passed by both houses of Congress，所以both and看出来他们没有主次之分吧。就选了D。但是D的sometimes读着很不舒服。NN来解释一下好吗？

applejsjs

我觉得选D是对的，理由是：
解释一：文章说Many commentators believe that this change had already occurred in 1871 when “Congress abolished the making of treaties” with Native American tribes.  But in reality “the federal government continued to negotiate formal tribal agreements” past the turn of the century, “treating these documents not as treaties” with sovereign nations requiring ratification by the Senate “but simply as legislation” to be passed by both houses of Congress。

注意引号“”里面的词语，1871年Congress废除了making of treaties，但是federal government 还是继续negotiate formal tribal agreements，只是不是treating these documents not as treaties，而是but simply as legislation，可以推断出在1871年被congress废除之前，federal goverment是sometimes negotiated treaties with Native American tribes，只是废除了之后就simply as legislation了

解释二：按照GWD的说法，前面说了the federal government totally abandoned negotiation and execution of formal written agreements with Indian tribes as a prerequisite for the implementation of federal Indian policy.Many commentators believe that this change had already occurred in 1871，
因此这样看1871年的时候，就有这个改变了，那么之前可能还似乎会negotiated treaties wih native american tribes

Open to discussion

haileywang

我觉得选D对，但是是用排除法选出来的，我对D里面的修饰词sometimes感觉不是很好，但其他选项都不行
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citidandan 发表于 2010-12-21 06:49

明白了，没有more  than一说，是both