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[A] German-born British scholar Max Müller concluded that the Rig-Veda of ancient India-the oldest preserved body of literature written in an Indo-European language-reflected the earliest stages of an Indo-European mythology. M ller attributed all later myths to misunderstandings that arose from the picturesque terms in which early peoples described natural phenomena.
[B] The myth and ritual theory, as this approach came to be called, was developed most fully by British scholar Jane Ellen Harrison. Using insight gained from the work of French sociologist Emile Durkheim, Harrison argued that all myths have their origin in collective rituals of a society.
[C] Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud held that myths—like dreams—condense the material of experience and represent it in symbols.
[D] This approach can be seen in the work of British anthropologist Edward Burnett Tylor. In Primitive Culture (1871), Tylor organized the religious and philosophical development of humanity into separate and distinct evolutionary stages.
[E] The studies made in this period were consolidated in the work of German scholar Christian Gottolob Heyne, who was the first scholar to use the Latin term myths (instead of fibula, meaning “fable”) to refer to the tales of heroes and gods.
[F] German scholar Karl Otfried M ller followed this line of inquiry in his Prolegomena to a Scientific Mythology, 1825).
正确答案：A
本题考核的知识点是：上下文内容的衔接
本题空格出现在第五段中上文提到神话研究专家们寻找一种衍生了欧洲所有民族神话的母神话下文是举例子：像用“少女般的黎明”来表达“日出”开始是使黎明拟人化后来则成了关于少女的神话空格处的内容应承上启下［A］项前部分提到德国裔英国学者麦克斯·缪勒提出古印度的《梨俱吠陀》（RigVeda）是保存下来的用印欧语言创作的最古老的文献它反映了印欧神话的最初阶段该内容与上文的“母神话”相呼应［A］项后部分提到缪勒认为所有后来创作的神话都是曲解了早期人类对自然现象生动形象的叙述而产生的而下文的例子正好说明了这个观点因此［A］项正确
