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2. During the 1980’s, Japanese collectors were very active in the market for European art, especially as purchasers of nineteenth-century Impressionist paintings. This striking pattern surely reflects a specific preference on the part of many Japanese collectors for certain aesthetic attributes they found in nineteenth-century Impressionist paintings.

Which one of the following, if true, most strongly supports the explanation above?

A. Impressionist paintings first became popular among art collectors in Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century.
B. During the 1980’s, the Japanese economy underwent a sustained expansion that was unprecedented in the country’s recent history.
C. Several nineteenth-century Impressionist painters adopted certain techniques and visual effects found in Japanese prints that are highly esteemed in Japan.
D. During the 1960s and the 1970s, the prices of nineteenth-century Impressionist paintings often exceeded the prices of paintings by older European masters.
E. During the 1980’s, collectors from Japan and around the world purchased many paintings and prints by well-known twentieth-century Japanese artists.

答案：C
思路：
A. 无关
B. 无关
C. 作者先提出一个事实，然后指这个事实说明了日本收藏家对19世纪印象派画家的一些审美特性有着特别的偏爱。C直接举证说明原因：这是因为19世纪印象派画家使用了一些在日本备受推崇的技术和视觉效果。（Several nineteenth-century Impressionist painters adopted certain techniques and visual effects found in Japanese prints that are highly esteemed in Japan.）
D. 无关项, many Japanese collectors for certain aesthetic attributes 和D中的price没有任何关系
E. 无关

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Test 1

1. Although 90 percent of the population believes itself to be well informed about health care, only 20 percent knows enough about DNA. So apparently at least 80 percent of the population does not know enough about medical concepts to make well-informed personal medical choices or to make good public policy decisions about health care.

The argument’s reasoning is questionable because the argument fails to demonstrate that

A. those people who can understand news stories about DNA are able to make well-informed personal medical choices
B. more than 20 percent of the population needs to be well informed about health care for good public policy decisions about health care to be made
C. one’s being able to make well-informed personal medical choices ensures that one makes good public policy decisions about health care
D. an understanding of DNA is essential to making well-informed personal medical choices or to making good public policy decisions about health care
E. since 90 percent of the population believes itself to be well informed about health care, at least 70 percent of the population is mistaken in that belief.

答案：D
思路：本题的推论错误在于以偏概全，用对DNA的了解程度来考核well informed about health care的程度。据个例子，我们可否用掌握核物理知识的程度来考核对物理基本知识的掌握程度呢？显然不行！

A: 支持作者的观点
B: 无关
C: 无关
D: 本题的推论错误在于以偏概全，用对DNA的了解程度来考核well informed about health care的程度。据个例子，我们可否用掌握核物理知识的程度来考核对物理基本知识的掌握程度呢？显然不行！
E: 无关