According to a theory advanced by researcher Paul Martin, the wave of species extinctions that occurred in North America about 11,000 years ago, at the end of the Pleistocene era, can be directly attributed to the arrival of humans, i.e., the Paleoindians, who were ancestors of modern Native Americans. However, anthropologist Shepard Krech points out that large animal species vanished even in areas where there is no evidence to demonstrate that Paleoindians hunted them. Nor were extinctions confined to large animals: small animals, plants, and insects disappeared, presumably not all through human consumption. Krech also contradicts Martin’s exclusion of climatic change as an explanation by asserting that widespread climatic change did indeed occur at the end of the Pleistocene. Still, Krech attributes secondary if not primary responsibility for the extinctions to the Paleoindians, arguing that humans have produced local extinctions elsewhere. But, according to historian Richard White, even the attribution of secondary responsibility may not be supported by the evidence. White observes that Martin’s thesis depends on coinciding dates for the arrival of humans and the decline of large animal species, and Krech, though aware that the dates are controversial, does not challenge them; yet recent archaeological discoveries are providing evidence that the date of human arrival was much earlier than 11,000 years ago. In the last sentence of the passage, the author refers to “recent archaeological discoveries” (lines 36-37) most probably in order to A. refute White’s suggestion that neither Maritn nor Krech adequately account for Paleoindians’ contributions to the Pleistocene extinctions B. cast doubt on the possibility that a more definitive theory regarding the causes of the Pleistocene extinctions may be forthcoming C. suggest that Martin’s, Krech’s, and White’s theories regarding the Pleistocene extinctions are all open to question D. call attention to the most controversial aspect of all the current theories regarding the Pleistocene extinctions E. provide support for White’s questioning of both Martin’s and Krech’s positions regarding the role of Paleoindians in the Pleistocene extinctions 答案是E 我想問答案為什麼不是A 因為在recent archaeological discoveries 前有個 yet 所以應該是有轉折語氣出現才對阿 加上yet出現在 White's的論點後所以我覺得應該是反駁 W 的說法才是?? 還是是因為yet前出現 ";" 所以代表是這個關於W的論點未結束所以反而是支持W才對?? 請版上各位幫忙~謝謝囉!!!! --

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