单选题 .  ①Attempts to identify New Guinean's hunter-gatherers face the well-known difficulty of defining what constitutes a hunter-gather group. ②According to the common definition, hunter-gathers are those who subsist by hunting wild animals and gathering wild plants. ③Yet those criteria beg numerous questions, including the issue of what constitutes "wild". ④The very presence on a landscape of humans who are consumers affects food resources, blurring the lines between wild and domesticated and, hence between hunting and pastoralism, and between gathering and cultivation. ⑤Moreover, it is unclear how groups should be classified that are hunter-gatherers in their procurement strategies but that make use of pastoralism and cultivation in their consumption patterns––subsisting, for example, by trading wild foods to neighbors in return for domesticated crops.
15.  The primary purpose of the passage is to ______
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】 B:本题属于主旨题,正确答案是文章的3s版本,也就是本文的主旨句(第①句)的同义改写,本文主旨是识别出新几内亚的狩猎采集者很困难,因此选项B正确。
   A:本文没有讨论狩猎采集者的数量。
   C:对应第③句,但是通过这句话我们只能看出“野生的”这个概念难以定义是用于论证本文主旨(狩猎采集难以定义)的一个例子,属于细节。
   D:表述相反,本文的主旨是识别不出狩猎采集者。
   E:本文没有针对圈养给出定义。