The history of the transmission of ancient Roman texts prior to invention of the printing press is reconstructed from evidence both internal and external to the texts themselves. Internal evidence is used to reconstruct the relationship of the surviving manuscripts of a Roman text to one another, as represented in a modern stemma codicum: a diagram depicting the genealogical relationship of surviving manuscripts and those the stemma’s editor believes existed at one time. Stemma are scholar’s only road maps to textual connections based on internal evidence, but they may paint a distorted picture of reality because they diagram the relationships of only those manuscripts known or inferred today. If surviving copies are few, the stemma perforce brings into proximity manuscripts that were widely separated in time and place of origin. Conversely, the stemma can also bestow a semblance of separation on manuscripts written within a few months of one another or even in the same room.
As described in the passage, a stemma is most closely analogous to which of the following?
A. a department store inventory list that excludes some departments
B. a map from which a large section has been torn off
C. a chronology that includes only major historical events
D. a family tree in which some generations are not recorded
E. a government organizational chart from which some agencies are omitted
閱讀思考呀!
注意段落結(jié)構(gòu)和作者思路呀!
做題目注意關(guān)鍵詞定位呀!
解析
答案：D
解析：首段首句是主旨概括，引入文章主題：確定印刷技術(shù)出現(xiàn)前古羅馬文本傳承(transmission)的證據(jù)：文本內(nèi)部證據(jù)和外部證據(jù)。然后介紹內(nèi)部證據(jù)的作用。第3句作者表達(dá)了對(duì)內(nèi)部證據(jù)的負(fù)面觀點(diǎn)，4句5句說(shuō)明作者為何有這樣的負(fù)面觀點(diǎn)。
該題是一個(gè)類比題，首先要明確關(guān)鍵詞stemma的文章中的特點(diǎn)，再找類比選項(xiàng)。文章中stemma出現(xiàn)好幾處，關(guān)鍵是要讀懂后文stemma 與二句stemma codicum的關(guān)系，后文stemma 實(shí)際是stemma codicum 的同義縮寫(xiě)。根據(jù)二句對(duì)于 stemma codicum的冒號(hào)解釋，就不難看出D選項(xiàng)符合啦!