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GRE阅读综合辅导:63题网络课堂总结(十三)
Passage 23 结论解释型(印第安人生活故事)特别套路
评述理论著作At the end of the nineteenth century, a rising interest in Native American customs and an increasing desire to understand Native American culture
prompted ethnologists to begin recording the life stories of Native American. Ethnologists had a distinct reason for wanting to hear the stories: 原因一they were after
linguistic or anthropological data that would supplement their own 现场研究, and they believed that the personal stories, even of a single individual, could increase
their understanding of the cultures that they had been observing 从室外=(from outside) (from without: 从...外面).原因二 In addition(大列举的非第一点) many ethnologists
at the turn of the century believed that Native American manners and customs were rapidly disappearing, and that it was important to preserve for 后代 as much
information as could be adequately recorded before the cultures disappeared forever.
There were, however(转折), arguments against这段讲缺点 this method as a way of acquiring accurate and complete information. Franz Boas, for example, described
autobiographies as being “of limited value, and useful(具有讽刺意味) chiefly for the study of the perversion of truth by memory,” while Paul Radin contended that
investigators rarely spent enough time*7C with the tribes they were observing, and inevitably derived results too tinged by the investigator’s own emotional tone to
be reliable.
Even more importantly讲另外一个更重要的缺点, as these life stories moved from the traditional oral mode to recorded written form, much was inevitably lost(-). 两种
人都主观删减信息Editors often decided what elements were significant to the field research (field research: 实际教学, 现场调查研究) on a given tribe. Native Americans
recognized that the essence of their lives could not be communicated in English*6B and that events that they thought significant were often deemed unimportant by their
interviewers. Indeed, the very act of telling their stories could force Native American narrators to distort their cultures, as taboos had to be broken to speak the
names of dead relatives crucial to their family stories.
Despite all of this(转折)后面讲优点, autobiography remains a useful*3*8(+) tool for ethnological research: such personal reminiscences and impressions, incomplete
as they may be, are likely to throw more light on *8A世界观 and emotions than any amount of speculation*3A from an ethnologist or ethnological theorist from another
culture.
1. Which of the following best describes the organization of the passage?(重要)
(A) The historical backgrounds of two currently used research methods are chronicled.
(B) The validity of the data collected by using two different research methods is compared.
(C) The usefulness of a research method is questioned and then a new method is proposed.
(D) The use of a research method is described and the limitations of the results obtained are discussed.现讲方法再讲优缺点(D)
(E) A research method is evaluated and the changes necessary for its adaptation to other subject areas are discussed.
2. Which of the following is most similar to the actions of nineteenth-century ethnologists in their editing of the life stories of Native Americans?类比题
(A) A witness in a jury trial invokes the Fifth Amendment in order to avoid relating personally incriminating evidence.
(B) A stockbroker refuses to divulge the source of her information on the possible future increase in a stock’s value.
(C) A sports announcer describes the action in a team sport with which he is unfamiliar.对自己不熟悉的内容作主观删减
(D) A chef purposely excludes the special ingredient from the recipe of his prizewinning dessert.(C)
(E) A politician fails to mention in a campaign speech the similarities in the positions held by her opponent for political office and by herself.
3. According to the passage, collecting life stories can be a useful*3 methodology because直接事实题(最后一段)
(A) life stories provide deeper insights into a culture than the hypothesizing*3A of academics who are not members of that culture比猜测好
(B) life stories can be collected easily and they are not subject to invalid interpretations
(C) ethnologists have a limited number of research methods from which to choose
(D) life stories make it easy to distinguish between the important and unimportant features of a culture(A)
(E) the collection of life stories does not require a culturally knowledgeable investigator
4. Information in the passage suggests that which of the following may be a possible way to eliminate bias in the editing of life stories?改善题(第二、三段)
(A) Basing all inferences made about the culture on an ethnological theory
(B) Eliminating all of the emotion-laden information reported by the informant
(C) Translating the informant’s words into the researcher’s language
(D) Reducing the number of questions and carefully specifying the content of the questions that the investigator can ask the informant(E)
(E) Reporting all of the information that the informant provides regardless of the investigator’s personal opinion about its intrinsic value第二个观点取非
5. The primary purpose of the passage as a whole is to主题题(写法性)
(A) question an explanation
(B) correct a misconception
(C) 中性的评价 (transitive verb REVIEW, CRITICIZE) a methodology评述某人方法
(D) discredit an idea(C)
(E) clarify an ambiguity
6. It can be inferred from the passage that a characteristic of the ethnological research on Native Americans conducted during the nineteenth century was the use
of which of the following?(answer: they were after linguistic or anthropological data)
(A) Investigators familiar with the culture under study
(B) A language other than the informant’s*6B for recording life stories语言不是自己的语言
(C) Life stories as the ethnologist’s primary source of information
(D) Complete transcriptions of informants’ descriptions of tribal beliefs(B)
(E) Stringent guidelines for the preservation of cultural data
7. The passage mentions which of the following as a factor that can affect the accuracy of ethnologists’ transcriptions of life stories?(第二、三段的缺点取非)
(A) The informants’ social standing within the culture
(B) The inclusiveness of the theory that provided the basis for the research
(C) The length of time*7C the researchers spent in the culture under study
(D) The number of life stories collected by the researchers(C)
(E) The verifiability of the information provided by the research informants
8. It can be inferred from the passage that the author would be most likely to agree with which of the following statements about the usefulness of life stories*8
as a source of ethnographic information?
(A) They can be a source of information about how people in a culture view the world*8A.
(B) They are most useful as a source of linguistic information.
(C) They require editing and interpretation before they can be useful.
(D) They are most useful as a source of information about ancestry.(A)
(E) They provide incidental information rather than significant insights into a way of life.
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