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rosebudxiaojie

24-7 Which of the following most logically completes the argument below?

    The expansion of large-scale farming in Africa and Asia has destroyed much of the natural vegetation on which elephants have historically depended, forcing them to turn to cultivated land to satisfy their enormous appetites. As a result, farmers have lost millions of dollars worth of crops annually. Yet even if elephant sanctuaries were created on a widespread basis to guarantee elephants sufficient natural vegetation, the raiding would likely persist, since   

(A) when elephants forage for food, they typically travel in herds.群

(B) foraging elephants have been known to cause substantial damage even to plants that they do not eat.

(C) some of the land where crops have suffered extensive damage from elephants has been allowed to return to its natural state.

(D) elephants tend to prefer cultivated crops to wild vegetation as a food source

(E) elephant sanctuaries are usually created in areas that are rich in the natural vegetation on which elephants have historically depended.

B为什么不对呀？

答案为D

GMATCRACKER1983

可能ＬＺ没有完全理解题意

The expansion of large-scale farming in Africa and Asia has destroyed much of the natural vegetation on which elephants have historically depended, forcing them to turn to cultivated land to satisfy their enormous appetites. As a result, farmers have lost millions of dollars worth of crops annually. Yet even if elephant sanctuaries were created on a widespread basis to guarantee elephants sufficient natural vegetation, the raiding would likely persist, since   

在非洲和亚洲，大规模的农业化使得大量的自然植物减少．由于这些原有的自然植物是大象来意生存的．所以农业化使的大象们为了不饿肚子只好去吃耕种的土地．结果农民们辛辛苦苦的耕地被大象破坏（吃了）．但是如果说使那些原来的自然植物从新生长，大象吃庄稼这个现象也不会减弱－－－问原因．

答这种解释题重要的就是看到要解释的内容，也就是红色部分．这样看来，不难理解．原因就是大象更喜欢吃庄稼．而不是Ｂ

rosebudxiaojie

懂了,原文说的raiding袭击指的是吃庄稼,而不是破坏庄稼,要解释的是大象为什么还会吃庄稼

多谢

pinkcutie

感觉不适很convincing

虽然我也选的d但是觉得b无法排除

o_c_01

24-7 Which of the following most logically completes the argument below?

The expansion of large-scale farming in Africa and Asia has destroyed much of the natural vegetation on which elephants have historically depended, forcing them to turn to cultivated land to satisfy their enormous appetites. As a result, farmers have lost millions of dollars worth of crops annually. Yet even if elephant sanctuaries were created on a widespread basis to guarantee elephants sufficient natural vegetation, the raiding would likely persist, since
    

(A) when elephants forage for food, they typically travel in herds.群

(B) foraging elephants have been known to cause substantial damage even to plants that they do not eat.

(C) some of the land where crops have suffered extensive damage from elephants has been allowed to return to its natural state.

(D) elephants tend to prefer cultivated crops to wild vegetation as a food source

(E) elephant sanctuaries are usually created in areas that are rich in the natural vegetation on which elephants have historically depended.

这里应该选B吧~~

D和原文的第一句正好矛盾了吧~~如果象本身就更喜欢吃cultivated crops的话，它们一早就出来糟蹋农民粮食了，不会等到自己的本身食物少了才出来~~

[此贴子已经被作者于2007-7-11 16:15:40编辑过]

foreverluke

同意楼上的

如果如果象本身就更喜欢吃cultivated crops的话，它们一早就出来糟蹋农民粮食了，不会等到自己的本身食物少了才出来

而且这样显然更符合逻辑一些

sighliny

我的想法是：

原文已经指明了sanctuaries提供的是natural vegetation，那么需要解释的矛盾就是为什么在有足够的natural vegetation吃的情况下还要去破坏crop，那么D就在natural vegetation和crop之间架桥，而B没有涉及crop，只说了一般的plant的情况，并没有针对crop和cultivated land的影响进行解释

大家讨论

Zspirit

同意LS的，按照文意，sancturaies 能够保证为大象提供sufficient natural vegetation, 所以大象用不着再出来找食物了，就不会出现B的情况

fiona_hq

upo

xiaoyejv

7楼同学，文章说了是农业扩是自然食物减少，迫使大象去吃庄稼。大象吃了庄稼，发现味道十分鲜美，于是即使有新的自然食物长出来，大象都不高兴去吃了，仍然啃庄稼。