向大家请教一下01年8月阅读43题（是一题指代题），谢谢，谢谢哦！

crystalno_1

向大家请教一下01年8月阅读43题（是一题指代题），谢谢，谢谢哦！

原文如下：

In 1900 the United States had only three cities with more than a million residents-

New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia. By 1930, it had ten giant metropolises. The newer

ones experienced remarkable growth, which reflected basic changes in the economy.

Line The population of Los Angeles (114,000 in 1900) rose spectacularly in the early

(5) decades of the twentieth century, increasing a dramatic 1,400 percent from 1900 to 1930.

A number of circumstances contributed to the meteoric rise of Los Angeles. The

agricultural potential of the area was enormous if water for irrigation could be found, and

the city founders had the vision and dating to obtain it by constructing a 225-mile

aqueduct, completed in 1913, to tap the water of the Owens River. The city had a superb

(10) natural harbor, as well as excellent rail connections. The climate made it possible to shoot

motion pictures year-round; hence Hollywood. Hollywood not only supplied jobs; it

disseminated an image of the good life in Southern California on screens all across the

nation. The most important single industry powering the growth of Los Angeles, however,

was directly linked to the automobile. The demand for petroleum to fuel gasoline engines

(15) led to the opening of the Southern California oil fields, and made Los Angeles North

America's greatest refining center.

Los Angeles was a product of the auto age in another sense as well: its distinctive

spatial organization depended on widespread private ownership of automobiles. Los

Angeles was a decentralized metropolis, sprawling across the desert landscape over an

(20) area of 400 square miles. It was a city without a real center. The downtown business

district did not grow apace with the city as a whole, and the rapid transit system designed

to link the center with outlying areas withered away from disuse. Approximately 800,000

cars were registered in Los Angeles County in 1930, one per 2.7 residents. Some visitors

from the east coast were dismayed at the endless urban sprawl and dismissed Los

(25) Angeles as a mere collection of suburbs in search of a city. But the freedom and mobility

of a city built on wheels attracted floods of migrants to the city.

题目：

43. The word "it" in line 8 refers to

(A) aqueduct

(B) vision

(C) water

(D) agricultural potential

答案是C，可我怎么觉得应该是B呢？疑惑中。。。

最近指代题老做错，请问一下做指代题有什么原则或者经验吗？

redpassion

呵呵，这题你只要看obtain it by constructing a 225-mile

aqueduct（渠道，导水管）

建aqueduct是为了obtain水的

mutegirl

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agricultural potential of the area was enormous if water for irrigation could be found, and

the city founders had the vision and dating to obtain it by constructing a 225-mile

aqueduct, completed in 1913, to tap the water of the Owens River.

是不是句子的意思没有理解清楚啊，我觉得虽然是指代题，而且新东方的老师也反复强调做阅读的技巧，但是我觉得，理解文章盒句子的意思，对托福的阅读意义非同一般，因为一眼看过明白文章的意思后，那些所谓的技巧根本就是多于的。

这句话是说，这个地方农业的潜能是巨大的，假如发现可以灌溉的水，城市的创建者也在（by方式状语）通过一种什么方式来获得it，it就是水拉。

不知道这样说，妹妹是否可以理解

[此贴子已经被作者于2005-3-26 12:00:19编辑过]

crystalno_1

我原来想是“达到这个目的”这个意思，所以选择了VISION，现在看了两位的解释，觉得可能是我OBTAIN这个词的意思理解有误。

mutegirl

恩恩

理解就好拉