【尚友制造】OG12阅读点评十一至十五.pdf

wwwwww..sshhaarreewwiitthhuu..ccoomm OG12 11~15 OG12 11~15 OOGG1122 阅读点评1111~~1155 提示：文中题目前面的背景色，对应该题目在文章中涉及的内容。其中背景色中的红色字 体为解题关键字。题目中的蓝色背景色为解析题目的重点词语。 Passage 11 At the end of the nineteenth century, a rising interest in Native American customs and an increasing desire to understand Native American culture prompted ethnolo- gists to begin recording the life stories of Native Amer- (5) ican. Ethnologists had a distinct reason for wanting to hear the stories: they were after linguistic or anthropo- Ethnologists 想要记录原著民日常 logical data that would supplement their own field 生活的原因 observations, and they believed that the personal stories, even of a single individual, could increase their (10) understanding of the cultures that they had been observing from without. In addition many ethnologists at the turn of the century believed that Native Amer- ican manners and customs were rapidly disappearing, and that it was important to preserve for posterity as (15) much information as could be adequately recorded before the cultures disappeared forever. There were, however,arguments against this method as a way of acquiring accurate and complete informa- 提出质疑 tion. Franz Boas, for example, described autobiogra- (20) phies as being “of limited value, and useful chiefly for the study of the perversion of truth by memory,” while Paul Radin contended that investigators rarely spent enough time with the tribes they were observing, and inevitably derived results too tinged by the investi- (25) gator’s own emotional tone to be reliable. Eve