托福 TPO5 阅读 第二篇The originof the Pacific island people中第二段是这样的Speculation on the origin of these Pacific islanders began as soon as outsiders encountered them,in the absence of solid linguistic,archaeological,and biologica

托福 TPO5 阅读 第二篇The originof the Pacific island people中第二段是这样的Speculation on the origin of these Pacific islanders began as soon as outsiders encountered them,in the absence of solid linguistic,archaeological,and biologica
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The originof the Pacific island people中
第二段是这样的
Speculation on the origin of these Pacific islanders began as soon as outsiders encountered them,in the absence of solid linguistic,archaeological,and biological data many fanciful and mutually exclusive theories were devised.Pacific islanders were variously thought to have come from North America,South America,Egypt Israel,and India,as well as Southeast Asia.Many older theories implicitly deprecated the navigational abilities and overall cultural creativity of the Pacific islanders.For example,British anthropologists G Elliot Smith and W.J.Perry assumed that only Egyptians would have been skilled enough to navigate and colonize the Pacific.They inferred that the Egyptians even crossed the Pacific to found the great civilizations of the New World (North and South America).In 1947 Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl drifted on a balsa-log raft westward with the winds and currents across the Pacific from South America to prove his theory that Pacific islanders were Native Americans (also called American Indians).Later Heyerdahl suggested that the Pacific was peopled by three migrations by Native Americans from the Pacific Northwest of North America drifting to Hawaii,by Peruvians drifting to Easter Island,and by Melanesians.In 1969 he crossed the Atlantic in an Egyptian-style reed boat to prove Egyptian influences in the Americas.Contrary to these theorists,the overwhelming evidence of physical anthropology,linguistics,and archaeology shows that the Pacific islanders came from Southeast Asia and were skilled enough as navigators to sail against the prevailing winds and currents.
这一段中有一题是问
Which of the following can be inferred from paragragh 2 about early theories of where the first inhabitants of the Pacific islands came from>
为什么这一题的答案是选
They assumed that the peoples living in Southeast Asia did not have the skills needed to sail to the Pacific islands.
在原文中有提到SE Asia 的人有足够的skills去在Pacific 岛上航行啊
“Contrary to these theorists,the overwhelming evidence of physical anthropology,linguistics,and archaeology shows that the Pacific islanders came from Southeast Asia and were skilled enough as navigators to sail against the prevailing winds and currents.”
希望有谁可以帮我解释一下,

托福 TPO5 阅读 第二篇The originof the Pacific island people中第二段是这样的Speculation on the origin of these Pacific islanders began as soon as outsiders encountered them,in the absence of solid linguistic,archaeological,and biologica
题目问的是理论观点 应该看这句：W.J.Perry assumed that only Egyptians would have been skilled enough to navigate and colonize the Pacific..
你引用的那段 开头是Contrary to these theorists ,是指与理论相反的现实情况