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?
- The quantities of dissolved salts deposited by rivers in the Earth’s oceans have not been unusually large during the past hundred years.
- At any given time, all the Earth’s rivers have about the same salt levels.
- There are salts that leach into the Earth’s oceans directly from the ocean floor.
- There is no method superior to that based on salt levels for estimating the maximum age of the Earth’s oceans.
- None of the salts carried into the Earth’s oceans by rivers are used up by biological activity in the oceans.
这个道题的讨论主要集中在A,E上,并且CD22 keys中的答案也说是A,但是我觉得是E。 这道题第一句话有一个constantly,所以否定了河水中含盐量的变化,也就是说A不对,同时如果即使最近的100年不变能保证100年之前的年份也不变吗?当然不能,恰恰E能说明问题,排除了其他的情况,并且在第一句话成立的条件下,而且E选项也更符合ets出题思路。 大多出的assumption主要就两种通俗的做法1就是找两个论据之前的联系2排除其他因素,这道题更像是ets中我所说的第二个方法,至于第二种方法小的只发现一提不成立,就是一个关于酒里面添加物过敏的那道,答案不是选排除他因(好像是什么no substance.....),当然可能cd给的答案错了(几率很小)。 希望大牛给我点意见,大家一起进步,谢谢了! |