Q5 to Q7:
According to a theory advanced
by researcher Paul Martin, the wave
of species extinctions that occurred
Line in North America about 11,000 years
(5) ago, at the end of the Pleistocene era,
can be directly attributed to the arrival
of humans, i.e., the Paleoindians, who
were ancestors of modern Native
Americans. However, anthropologist
(10) Shepard Krech points out that large
animal species vanished even in areas
where there is no evidence to demon-
strate that Paleoindians hunted them.
Nor were extinctions confined to large
(15) animals: small animals, plants, and
insects disappeared, presumably not
all through human consumption. Krech
also contradicts Martin’s exclusion of
climatic change as an explanation by
(20) asserting that widespread climatic
change did indeed occur at the end of
the Pleistocene. Still, Krech attributes
secondary if not primary responsibility
for the extinctions to the Paleoindians,
(25) arguing that humans have produced
local extinctions elsewhere. But,
according to historian Richard White,
even the attribution of secondary
responsibility may not be supported
(30) by the evidence. White observes that
Martin’s thesis depends on coinciding
dates for the arrival of humans and the
decline of large animal species, and
Krech, though aware that the dates
(35) are controversial, does not challenge
them; yet recent archaeological
discoveries are providing evidence
that the date of human arrival was
much earlier than 11,000 years ago.
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Q6:
Which of the following, if true, would most weaken Krech’s objections to Martin’s theory?
答案B, 我选C 请NN指教
我也选了C
这么想的:K反对M之处在于K认为1:天气是一个影响因素,因为climatic change did indeed occur at the end of the Pleistocene. 。2:hunting至少不是首要原因,因为“large animal species vanished even in areas where there is no evidence to demonstrate that Paleoindians hunted them”
c说climatic change occurred not only at the end of the Pleistocene era but also in previous and subsequent eras,是一个有因无果的削弱(在承认原文开头所说的extinction发生在the end of the Pleistocene era 的前提下)
B说的Nor were extinctions confined to large animals: small animals, plants, and insects disappeared, presumably not all through human consumption。没看懂意思,请问这句话是谁的立场?我觉得是K的。
请大家帮我看看我的错在哪里,B对在哪里?
谢谢!
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