: Which of the following most logically completes the argument?
A certain cultivated herb is one of a group of closely related plants that thrive in soil with high concentrations of metals that are toxic to most other plants. Agronomists studying the herb have discovered that it produces large amounts of histidine, an amino acid that, in test-tube solutions, renders these metals chemically inert. Possibly, therefore, the herb’s high histidine production is what allows it to grow in metal-rich soils, a hypothesis that would gain support if ______.
A: histidine is found in all parts of the plant – roots, stem, leaves, and flowers
B: the herb’s high level of histidine production is found to be associated with an unusually low level of production of other amino acids
C: others of the closely related group of plants are also found to produce histidine in large quantities
D: cultivation of the herb in soil with high concentrations of the metals will, over an extended period, make the soil suitable for plants to which the metals are toxic
E: the concentration of histidine in the growing herb declines as the plant approaches maturity
我选C, 答案是D.为什么?
同意D. 因为" it produces large amounts of histidine, an amino acid that, in test-tube solutions, renders these metals chemically inert.", 所以土壤适合其他植物生长. 而C为无关, 即使成立, 还需要进一步论证是否能不能renders these metals chemically inert.
同意D ,因为herb 是的有毒的金属惰性,所以其他东东可以生长
我选C, 因为去解释现象的hypothesis为: the herb’s high histidine production is what allows it to grow in metal-rich soils. 证据是histidine renders these toxic metals chemically inert.所以argument 说histidian production 是使A certain cultivated herb of one of a group of closely related plants 能够grow的原因.
C 说明了, 这个hypothesis没有以偏盖全. 如果别的closely related plants也是因为这个原因而growth in toxic soil. 这个hypothesis因此得到support.
D 我认为是无关选项, 尤其说到over an exdended period, 原文没有说histidine 只能暂时让plants survive.
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支持D,虽然不是很完美。-一种解释可以是D说明Herb并不是自身对金属有免疫力,而是对土壤有所改变。
C觉得是无关的。
同意D。
原文的结论是histidine的产生是使得该草生存的原因,为了加强这个假设,就需要证明该物质的产生导致了一种环境,使得认为金属物质有毒的植物也能够生存,即该物质能够将有毒的环境变成没有毒的环境的能力才是提干需要我们提供的,D正好提供了这种可能。
看了这么多讨论,我觉得好多人都没有自己的观点似的,一看到版上很多牛牛的看法后,就好似偏离了自己的主见似的,唉
我觉得E挺有道理的:
题目中说herb中的那种酸和金属反应导致金属惰性,所以植物才得以生存。
而E则说随着植物长大,herb中的那种酸越来越少,这不就支持了结论吗?
当然C也很有道理,所以我不sure。
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应该选C,有因有果,起到加强作用。
题中的因果关系是因为histidine production 所以grow in metal-soils
plants to which the metals are toxic说明plants在没有histidine production 条件下是不能生存的 无因无果
而D中说了因为有了herb 也就是有了histidine production 有因 plants能生存了 有果
D strengthen
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