[RC. ] GWD TN 第三套 閱讀選項
以下是GWD TN第三套閱讀第一篇原文，
架構大概是：
作者一開始先提出有許多證據顯示鳥類演化自恐龍，
然而有些科學家並不相信這個說法。
接下來，作者先提出科學家的argument 1 並反駁；
再提出科學家的argument 2 再反駁，
最後提出科學家的argument 3 再攻擊。(結束)
Although many lines of evidence indicate that birds evolved from
ground-dwelling theropod dinosaurs, some scientists remain unconvinced. They
argue that theropods appeared too late to have given rise to birds, noting
that Archaeopteryx lithographic - the oldest known bird - appears in the
fossil record about 150 million years ago, whereas the fossil remains of
various nonavian maniraptor theropods - the closest known relatives of birds
- date only to about 115 million years ago. But investigators have now
uncovered bones that evidently belong to nonavian maniraptors dating to the
time of Archaeopteryx. In any case, failure to find fossils of a predicted
kind does not rule out their existence in an undiscovered deposit. Skeptics
also argue that the fused clavicles (the "wishbone") of birds differ from the
unfused clavicles of theropods. This objection was reasonable when only early
theropod clavicles had been discovered, but fossilized theropod clavicles
that look just like the wishbone of Archaeopteryx have now been unearthed.
Finally, some scientists argue that the complex lungs of birds could not have
evolved from theropod lungs, an assertion that cannot be supported or
falsified at the moment, because no fossil lungs are preserved in the
paleontological record.
我的問題是第一題
The primary purpose of the passage is to
A) compare the development of two hypotheses concerning the evolutionary
origin of birds
B) suggest revisions to the standard theory of the evolutionary history of
birds
C) evaluate the usefulness of fossil evidence in determining the
evolutionary history of birds
D) challenge the theory that birds evolved from ground-dwelling theropod
dinosaurs
E) respond to criticisms of the theory that birds evolved from
ground-dwelling theropod dinosaurs
正解 E
關於E(D)這兩個選項用到的"Theory"在文章中並沒有提到，
沒有明指攻擊的argument是來自某個理論，
且文章一開始也只有說"many lines of evidence indicate..."
覺得怎麼也推不出Theory這個字 (還是我漏看了哪裡@@)
所以對正確答案感到非常疑惑@@"
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