Q29: The Earth’s rivers constantly carry dissolved salts into its oceans. Clearly, therefore, by taking the resulting increase in salt levels in the oceans over the past hundred years and then determining how many centuries of such increases it would have taken the oceans to reach current salt levels from a hypothetical initial salt-free state, the maximum age of the Earth’s oceans can be accurately estimated. Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends? A. The quantities of dissolved salts deposited by rivers in the Earth’s oceans have not been unusually large during the past hundred years. E. None of the salts carried into the Earth’s oceans by rivers are used up by biological activity in the oceans.
首先想告诉你,我做题时很少根据什么any之类的词来判断的。
这样我先把两个选项翻译一下,看看我们对题目的理解上有没有差异。
A. 在过去的几百年时间里,在地球的海洋里由河流带来的沉积溶解盐的数量没有异常的大过。
E. 没有任何由河流带入海洋的盐被任何海洋里的生物活动消耗掉过。
取非削弱的概念,是对主句的动词做取非。
如对A取非的结果:The quantities of dissolved salts deposited by rivers in the Earth’s oceans have not been unusually large during the past hundred years.
题目的意思是根据几百年来总的海洋溶解盐的增长数量(假设从0开始)除以平均每年的增长量得到总年份数,从而得知海洋的年龄。
A.指出没有特别年份盐的增长量特别高,这样避免在算平均的时候有差异。即如果每年的含盐量的增长量是均匀的,那么可以用平均数来除,但如果有些年份的含盐量的增长量是其它年份的几倍,那么用平均数来除,显然得出的年份数字会比实际情况多。
E. 在说A的时候,我一直强调的是年含盐量的增长量,就是E中存在的问题。对E取非就是说有盐被海洋生物消耗了。其实这个并不影响问题,为什么呢?因为本来在计算年份的时候就是除以盐分的平均增长量=从河里流入海洋的量-海洋生物体消耗的量。
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