黃金閱讀 THE RISE OF TEOTIHUACAN - 英檢

※ 引述《mde (bnbnbn)》之銘言：
: Paragraph 4 It seems likely that Teotihuacán’s natural resources─
: along with the city elite’s ability to recognize their potential─gave
: the city a competitive edge over its neighbors, The valley, like many
: other places in Mexican and Guatemalan highlands, was rich in obsidian.
: The hard volcanic stone was a resource that had been in great demand for
: many years,at least since the rise of the Olmecs(a people who flourished
: between 1200 and 400 B.C.) and it apparently had a secure market. Moreover,
: recent research on obsidian tools found at Olmecs sites has shown that
: some of the obsidian obtained by the Olmecs originated near Teotihuacn.
: Teotihuacán obsidian must have been recognized as a valuable commodity for
: many centuries before the great city arose.
: 9. Which of the following allowed Teotihuacán to have
: “a competitive edge over its neighbors”?
: ○ A well-exploited and readily available commodity
: ○ The presence of a highly stable elite class
: ○ Knowledge derived directly from the Olmecs about the art of tool making
: ○ Scarce natural resources in nearby areas such as those located
: in what are now the Guatemalan and Mexican highlands
: 此題小弟選的是B 答案是A(雖然B選中highly stable elite class文中提到的是elite's
: ability to recognize their potential;但文末提到obsidiany tool已經被視為有價值
: 的商品很久了<-這樣就能說他是competitive edge?? )
: 看不出選A的脈絡在於哪裡? 希望高手解答 感謝 ^^ !!

這題選A 因為A答案完全符合文章說到的T為何具有優勢的兩個原因
A well-exploited and readily available commodity
1)well-exploited >> obsidian tools were found at Olmecs sties
從Olmecs這個民族開始就已經大量使用這種資源
2)readily available >> The valley, like many other places..., was rich in
obsidian 這個山谷蘊含大量obsidian

你也可以從文章中來解答本題:
It seems likely that T 's natural resources -along with the city elite's
ability to recognize their potential - gave the city a competitive edge...
>>T城市之所有具有競爭優勢乃是因為它的天然資源(也就是obsidian) 加上 T城市的菁英
份子懂得該資源的潛力(意指懂得如何使用該資源, 後面的句子馬上接著敘述obsidian
在T城市興起前就已經被廣泛使用很久了)
這樣解文意後 最好的答案就是A

你選的B 意思是 T城市有競爭力乃是因為具有非常穩定的菁英階級
這個文張所敘不相符(highly stable也根本就沒有提到)


希望這個回答有幫助到你:)

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