tpo 14 PASTORALISM IN ANCIENT INNER … - 英檢

※ 引述《winds6427 (囧囧)》之銘言：
: Paragraph 4:
: Nomadism also subjects pastoralist communities to strict rules
: of portability. If you are constantly on the move, you cannot
: afford to accumulate large material surpluses. Such rules limit
: variations in accumulated material goods between pastoralist
: households (though they may also encourage a taste for portable
: goods of high value such as silks or jewelry). So, by and large,
: nomadism implies a high degree of self-sufficiency and inhibits
: the appearance of an extensive division of labor. Inequalities
: of wealth and rank certainly exist, and have probably existed in
: most pastoralist societies, but except in periods of military
: conquest, they are normally too slight to generate the stable,
: hereditary hierarchies that are usually implied by the use of the
: term class. Inequalities of gender have also existed in pastoralist
: societies, but they seem to have been softened by the absence of
: steep hierarchies of wealth in most communities, and also by the
: requirement that women acquire most of the skills of men,
: including, often, their military skills.
: 10 According to paragraph 4, all of the following are true of social
: inequality in pastoralist
: societies EXCEPT:
: ○ It exists and has existed to some degree in most pastoral societies.
: ○ It is most marked during periods of military conquest.
"..except in periods of military conquest, they(inqualities) are normally
too slight...">> 除了在軍事征戰的時期外，不平等的情形通常很輕微
選項二符合文意
: ○ It is expressed in the form of a rigid hierarchy based largely on heredity.
"...they(inequalities) are normally too slight to generate the stable,
hereditary hierarchies that are usually implied by the use of the term class."
>>不平等情形通常很輕微，輕微到無法指稱此情形的社會 擁有所謂的階級(class)
選項三rigid很明顯和文意slight相反

: ○ It is usually too insignificant to be discussed in terms of class
: differences.
: 不是很懂 為什麼答案是3不是2啊?

So， 答案選三

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