以下是引用vacationer在2005-9-15 3:22:00的发言:16: In recent years, networks of fiber-optic cable have been replacing electrical wire for transmitting telecommunications signals. Signals running through fiber-optic cables deteriorate, and so the signals must be run through a piece of equipment called a regenerator before being transmitted father. Light-Line is the leading manufacturer of signal regenerators. Therefore, Light-line is one of the companies that will most benefit if new long-distance fiber-optic telecommunications networks are constructed.
Which of the following, if true, casts the most doubt on the prediction about light-ling’s prospects?
A: Telecommunications signals sent along electrical wires can travel much farther than signals transmitted through fiber-optic before needing to be regenerated.
B: Expanding its production of regenerators will require Light-line to spend proportionately more on labor and materials.
C: The volume of signals that a fiber-optic cable can carry is several thousand times greater than the volume that can be carried by an electrical wire of similar size.
D: There are technologies that enable telecommunications signals to be transmitted without either wire or fiber-optic cable.
E: Several manufacturers are developing regenerator technologies that will allow signals to be transmitted many times farther than at present before requiring regeneration.
28: Rock samples taken from the remains of an asteroid about twice the size of the 6-nuke-wide asteroid that eradicated the dinosaurs has been dated to be 3.47 billion years old and thus is evidence of the earliest known asteroid impact on Earth.
A: has been dated to be 3.47 billion years old and thus is
B: has been dated at 3.47 billion years old and thus
C: have been dated to be 3.47billion years old and thus are
D: have been dated as being 3.47 billion years old and thus
E: have been dated at 3.47 billion years old and thus are
这两题你们都达成共识了,可是我不明白 
16题,原文推理为fiber-optic telecommunications networks deteriorate signals->需要regenerator ,又因为Light-Line is the leading manufacturer of signal regenerators-》Light-line will most benefit 。题目要求削弱。E选项说明制造商正在发明一种新的技术,它使信号比原来regenaration之前能传输更远的距离,所以网络的建设不需要那么多的regenarator 了,削弱了公司获利的结论。
第18题,我是看了讨论帖,上面3w举了og使用date at 的用法,与这里一样,所以我同意E正确。但具体是哪个例子,我不记得了,回头找到了再给你贴上来 |