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Parasitic wasps lay their eggs directly into the eggs of various host insects in exactly the right numbers for any suitable size of host egg. If they laid too many eggs in a host egg, the developing wasp larvae would compete with each other to the death for nutrients and space. If too few eggs were laid, portions of the host egg would decay, killing the wasp larvae.

Which of the following conclusions can properly be drawn from the information above?

(A) The size of the smallest host egg that a wasp could theoretically parasitize can be determined from the wasp’s egg-laying behavior.

(B) Host insects lack any effective defenses against the form of predation practiced by parasitic wasps.

(C) Parasitic wasps learn from experience how many eggs to lay into the eggs of different host species.

(D) Failure to lay enough eggs would lead to the death of the developing wasp larvae more quickly than would laying too many eggs

(E) Parasitic wasps use visual clues to calculate the size of a host egg.  答案是,A,OG解释也看了，不明白啊。人家的蛋的大小可以由它来决定？

The number of North American children who are obese-that is, who have more body fat than do 85 percent of North American children their age---is steadily increasing, according to four major studies conducted over the past 15 years.

If the finding reported above is correct, it can be properly concluded that

(A) when four majors studies all produce similar results, those studies must be accurate

(B) North American children have been progressively less physically active over the past 15 years

(C) the number of North American children who are not obese increased over the past 15 years

(D) over the past 15 years, the number of North American children who are underweight has declined

(E) the incidence of obesity in North American children tends to increase as the children grow older

答案是,C我怎么不明白呢？解释一下

个人认为，size还是应该表示大小，determined可以理解成推断，这样就顺畅多了。

OG175不明白这个题目，已经第二次过OG了，还是搞不懂。The size of the smallest host egg ===无论这个SIZE是指数量还是大小，也无法确定 smallest的啊。为什么C不对呢？真知来自于实践，(C) Parasitic wasps learn from experience how many eggs to lay into the eggs of different host species. ===题目给出的信息，如果Parasitic wasp失败多了，那总有一次是它满意的啊，那么下次就根据这个去做了，这不是合乎逻辑么？

请教NN啊，

(C) Parasitic wasps learn from experience how many eggs to lay into the eggs of different host species.中的learn from和how many用的不妥。]

A）的意思已经很明确了。wasps能够根据host egg size来产下适合该size的俄eggs。归纳题。

A的意思并不是"wasps能够根据host egg size来产下适合该size的俄eggs", 而是"wasp的下蛋行为决定了他所需要的寄主蛋的大小的最小值".

试着解释一下：

1) 这个最小值只是为了说明wasp的下蛋行为是出于本能的，为了避免蛋或卵的死亡(下多下少都要死)，他们必须做到下蛋数目刚好适合宿主蛋的大小。当然，这里的"the smallest"也可以省略。不影响中心思想的表达(OG也是假设comparing two host eggs...来论证)。

2) 有一点必须指出，the size of host egg that a wasp could theorectically parasitize can be determined from the wasp's egg-laying behavior. 其中that定语从句的修饰说明了host egg是指wasp可以下蛋的host eggs, 也进一步说明了host eggs 是客观已经存在的，所以不存在“host egg是由wasp's egg-laying behavior产生”的意思，更不可能说host egg的size也由别人来决定了。

一家之言，请大家指正。