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)

　　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 novel s setting.

　　The recommendation is based on which of the following assumptions?

　　The authors of French novels are usually native speakers of French.

　　A non-British reader of a novel written in British English will inevitably fail to understand the meanings of some of the words and idioms in the novel.