16. A violin constructed to have improved sound would sound different from the best-sounding existing violins.To professional violinists, a violin that sounds different from the best-sounding existing violins sounds less like a violin and therefore worse than the best-sounding existing violins.

Professional violinists are the only accepted judges of the sound quality of violins.

Would be the best supported by those statements?

(A) Only amateur violinists should be asked to judge the sound quality of newly constructed violins.

(B) Professional violinists supervise the construction of violins.

(C) The best-sounding existing violins have been in existence fro several centuries.

(D) It is currently impossible to construct a violin that the only accepted judges will evaluate as having improved sound.

(E) It is possible to construct a violin that sounds better than the best-sounding existing violins to everyone but professional violinists.

答案是D,这题我是猜对的,看不太懂题目再说什么…

17. The fact that several of the largest senior citizens’ organizations are constituted almost exclusively of middle-class elderly people has led critics to question the seriousness of those organizations’ commitment to speaking out on behalf of the needs of economically disadvantaged elderly people.

Which of the following generalizations, if true, would help to substantiate the criticism implicit in the statement above?

(D) Middle-class elderly people are more likely to join organizations than are economically disadvantaged elderly people.

(E) People usually join organizations whose purpose is to further the economic, political, or social interests of their members.

答案是E,為什麼要選E不能選D

我说两句.16题是归纳题目,说小提琴改进就不如原装,职业提琴师只要听到不是原装就否,他还是唯一的评委,因此D的答案说让唯一的评委辨别出改进是不可能的就对了,因为职业提琴师脑子里只有原装没有改进.

17题,作者怀疑中产阶级是否能代表穷人,E答案正好证实了作者的怀疑,因为加入一个组织就是只为自己说话,言外之意就是不为穷人说话了,当然就证实作者的担忧了。