LSAT20I-19请教

albert

19. Spectroscopic analysis has revealed the existence of frozen nitrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide on the surface of Pluto. Such ices have a tendency to vaporize, producing an atmosphere. Since the proportion of any gas in such an atmosphere depends directly on how readily the corresponding ice vaporizes, astronomers have concluded that the components of Pluto's atmosphere are nitrogen, carbon monoxide, and methane, in order of decreasing abundance.
The astronomers' argument relies on which one of the following assumptions?
(A) There is no more frozen nitrogen on the surface of Pluto than there is either frozen carbon monoxide or methane.
(B) Until space probes reach Pluto, direct analysis of the atmosphere is impossible.
(C) There is no frozen substance on the surface of Pluto that vaporizes more readily than methane but less readily than carbon monoxide.
(D) Nitrogen is found in the atmosphere of a planet only if nitrogen ice is found on the surface of that planet.
(E) A mixture of nitrogen, carbon monoxide, and methane is characteristic of the substances from which the Solar System formed.

答案：C 但我觉得D好象也对。

albert

没人回答我的问题？
谢谢！

mindfree

D cannot be derived from the passage. Only if is different from if.

Only if A then B ==> B-->A
If A, then B ==> A-->B

The passage reasons that nitrogen is in the atmosphere because there is frozen nitrogen (ice) on the planet. It is ice-->atmosphere, opposite to D.

albert

oh. I see. thanks, mindfree