GWD-TN-17

Cecile8chen

Excavations of the Roman city of Sepphoris have uncovered numerous detailed mosaics depicting several readily identifiable animal species:  a hare, a partridge, and various Mediterranean fish.  Oddly, most of the species represented did not live in the Sepphoris region when these mosaics were created.  Since identical motifs appear in mosaics found in other Roman cities, however, the mosaics of Sepphoris were very likely created by traveling artisans from some other part of the Roman Empire.
Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?
A.    The Sepphoris mosaics are not composed exclusively of types of stones found naturally in the Sepphoris area.
B.    There is no single region to which all the species depicted in the Sepphoris mosaics are native.
C.    No motifs appear in the Sepphoris mosaics that do not also appear in the mosaics of some other Roman city.
D.    All of the animal figures in the Sepphoris mosaics are readily identifiable as representations of known species.
E.    There was not a common repertory of mosaic designs with which artisans who lived in various parts of the Roman Empire were familiar.

答案是E，求各位大神帮忙分析一下阿

callmesoli

e的意思是在罗马没有一种众所周知的mosaic设计，也就是说s地方的工匠

们不知道制作这些mosaic的方法。如果s地方的工匠知道怎么做这种mosaic的

话，就得不出是由旅行工匠制作的结论了

man855112

可是文中说S是R中的一个城市，而且mosaic设计是由R中其他城市的流动工匠完成，而E则暗含着说这个工匠不仅不是S、更不是R的意思，与原文结论矛盾呀？

man855112

哦！看了别的几个帖子，原来我是选项没理解明白~
E:没有一种共同的的设计是Rome各地工匠所熟悉的。也就是说，罗马各地的工匠的设计都是独一无二的，而文中这种设计出现在两地，那只能是铁打的设计流水的工匠了。
而A：S的设计并不是仅仅用本地石头制成，那石头可能是外地的，与设计无关。
透彻了~~