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正确答案 C。题干推断20世纪考古学家 Arthur。A 错，他认为有大 gap，原文说 Unless there is a truly huge gap in ourexcavated evidence possible,butas time goes on increasingly unlikely；B 错，temple 应该代替 palace，原文说 Accurate terminology that did not privilege one function
over another would require the coinage of a portmanteau term such as "palace temple"or "temple-palace,"；C 正确，可根据线索 From the early twentieth-century work of archaeologist Arthur Evans onwards,the ingrained and embedded religious nature of the palaces has been accepted, as has the fact that "palace"is inadequate shorthand for the buildings'complexities.D 错误 all large palaces 都包括 temples
In fact, the choice of "temple" rather than “palace" is a change of emphasis rather than a change of interpretation. From the early twentieth-century work of archaeologist Arthur Evans onwards, the ingrained and embedded religious nature of the palaces has been accepted, as has the fact that "palace" is inadequate shorthand for the buildings' complexities. There are, though, good reasons not to change wholesale to "temple" which in truth is similarly inadequate. The most obvious problem with such a change is the fact that, while a society based on large palaces with no temples has always been recognized as anomalous in the ancient world, large-scale temples with no palaces would be equally so. Unless there is a truly huge gap in our excavated evidence possible, but as time goes on increasingly unlikely--these complex buildings are all we have. The most logical conclusion remains that they fulfilled two sets of functions simultaneously. Accurate terminology that did not privilege one function over another would require the coinage of a portmanteau term such as "palace-temple" or "temple-palace," but this seems an undesirable deviation from terminology that is long established, whatever its shortcomings.
