以下是引用bose0008在2004-10-27 0:44:00的发言:Q29:
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.
A: if it is unusually large, the whole methodology proposed sounds very illogical to derive an accurate estimation. Negation works for A. E: Irrelevant: biological activity is already considered in the process of "taking the resulting in crease in the salt level". resulting level=salt level from rivers - salt consumed by biological activity & other activities
关注题目的关键信息相同!但我选E。最直接的理由就是如何理解把原文翻译成中文的话,就是说任何影响计算依据标准或计算所的结果正确性的因素都会导致inaccurately的后果,单凭这一点,E就能作为一个assumption了!
另外,A中还涉及计算依据标准的问题,少一个是否以“past hundred years来做尺度”的假设。
open to discussions.
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