2019-07-15

有趣的长难句2

上期的答案是A，小伙伴们答对了吗？答对了恭喜你，你的水平足够应付托福考试了！答错了也不要紧，这只是开始，多练习几道题水平就上来了。

今天的考题选自《戏剧的起源(The Origins of Theater)》一文，文章探讨了戏剧的起因和发展动机，提出了戏剧脱胎于神话传说和宗教仪式的理论，而发展的动机之一则引用了亚里士多德在公元前4世纪提出的观点：人天生就爱模仿人事物及其行为。巧合的是，这段长难句也在文章的结尾，是为了强调文章的最终观点而给出的例子。本来，抽象的观点较难理解，有了具体例子，似乎容易弄明白。然而，这个长难句的例子却是为了故意为难考生而撰写的。

For example, some early societies ceased to consider certain rites essential to their well-being and abandoned them, nevertheless, they retained as parts of their oral tradition the myths that had grown up around the rites and admired them for their artistic qualities rather than for their religious usefulness.

虽然形式上不太漂亮，不过遣词造句也算精心了。答题之前先把主谓宾找出来，意思就清楚了。

Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence in the passage? 

 A. A society’s rites were more likely to be retained in the oral tradition if its myths were admired for artistic qualities.

B. The artistic quality of a myth was sometimes an essential reason for a society to abandon it from the oral tradition.

C. Some early societies stopped using myths in their religious practices when rites ceased to be seen as useful for social well-being.

D. Myths sometimes survived in a society’s tradition because of their artistic qualities even after they were no longer deemed religiously beneficial.

ABCD四个答案，哪个是正确的？解读长难句，给碎片时间一个好的消遣。