Although fullerenes--spherical molecules made entirely of carbon--were first found in the laboratory, they have since been found in nature, formed in fissures of the rare mineral shungite. Since laboratory synthesis of fullerenes requires distinctive conditions of temperature and pressure, this discovery should give geologists a test case for evaluating hypotheses about the state of the Earth's crust at the time these naturally occurring fullerenes were formed. Which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines the argument? (A) Confirming that the shungite genuinely contained fullerenes took careful experimentation. (B) Some fullerenes have also been found on the remains of a small meteorite that collided with a spacecraft. (C) The mineral shungite itself contains large amounts of carbon, from which the fullerenes apparently formed. (D) The naturally occurring fullerenes are arranged in a previously unknown crystalline structure. (E) Shungite itself is formed only under distinctive conditions. 第一题就错了,郁闷死了,还想了半天也没想明白,看了讨论后似乎是明白了. fullerenes--spherical molecules made entirely of carbon--were first found in the laboratory根据这种结构,geologists提出了一种假设,找到在自然界的这种东东后,希望通过分析它来evaluate他们以前的假设(a test for evaluating hypotheses),结果D说自然界发现的东东结构和实验室里的不同,也就是说不是同一样东东,不能用来验证以前的假设 应该是这样理解吧...... |