新gre考试阅读逻辑题练习(第七套)_GRE阅读

新gre考试阅读逻辑题练习(第七套)

　　 The red paint was added in the eighteenth century in an attempt to repair damage done in the late seventeenth century.

　　 Red paint on the robe of another figure in the painting dates from the sixteenth century.

　　12. Although it is assumed that peacocks magnificent tails function essentially to attract peahens, no one knows why it should be magnificent tails that give a competitive advantage in securing mates. One explanation is that peahens are more likely to mate with peacocks with magnificent tails than with peacocks that lack magnificent tails.

　　Which of the following is an error of reasoning exemplified by the explanation?

　　 Attributing to animals qualities that are characteristically human

　　 Extending a conclusion that is true of only one species of a genus to all species of the genus

　　 Offering as an explanation a hypothesis that in principle can be neither verified nor proved false

　　 Offering the phenomenon that is to be explained as the explanation of that phenomenon

　　 Assuming without warrant that peacocks with magnificent tails are likely to have other features strongly attractive to peahens

　　13. Whenever a French novel is translated into English, the edition sold in Britain should be in British English. If the edition sold in Britain were in American English, its idioms and spellings would appear to British readers to be strikingly American and thus to conflict with the novels setting.