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jiangbond

这道题答案选 A。 是不是错了啊？文章在哪提到"water"了？

It can be inferred from the passage that some scientists believe that pterosaurs
(A) lived near large bodies of water
(B) had sharp teeth for tearing food
(C) were attacked and eaten by larger reptiles
(D) had longer tails than many birds
(E) consumed twice their weight daily to maintain their body temperature文章：

The fossil remains of the first flying vertebrates, the pterosaurs, have intrigued
paleontologists for more than two centuries. How such large creatures, which weighed
in some cases as much as a piloted hang-glider and had wingspans from 8 to 12
meters, solved the problems of powered flight, and exactly what these creatures
were—reptiles or birds—are among the questions scientists have puzzled over.
Perhaps the least controversial assertion about the pterosaurs is that they were
reptiles. Their skulls, pelvises, and hind feet are reptilian. The anatomy of their wings
suggests that they did not evolve into the class of birds. In pterosaurs a greatly
elongated fourth finger of each forelimb supported a wing-like membrane. The other
fingers were short and reptilian, with sharp claws. In birds the second finger is the
principal strut of the wing, which consists primarily of feathers. If the pterosaurs
walked on all fours, the three short fingers may have been employed for grasping.
When a pterosaur walked or remained stationary, the fourth finger, and with it the
wing, could only turn upward in an extended inverted V -shape along each side of the
animal‘s body.

The pterosaurs resembled both birds and bats in their overall structure and
proportions. This is not surprising because the design of any flying vertebrate is
subject to aerodynamic constraints. Both the pterosaurs and the birds have hollow
bones, a feature that represents a savings in weight. In the birds, however, these bones
are reinforced more massively by internal struts.
Although scales typically cover reptiles, the pterosaurs probably had hairy coats.
T. H. Huxley reasoned that flying vertebrates must have been warm-blooded because
flying implies a high rate of metabolism, which in turn implies a high internal
temperature. Huxley speculated that a coat of hair would insulate against loss of body
heat and might streamline the body to reduce drag in flight. The recent discovery of a
pterosaur specimen covered in long, dense, and relatively thick hairlike fossil material
was the first clear evidence that his reasoning was correct.
Efforts to explain how the pterosaurs became airborne have led to suggestions
that they launched themselves by jumping from cliffs, by dropping from trees, or even
by rising into light winds from the crests of waves. Each hypothesis has its difficulties.
The first wrongly assumes that the pterosaurs‘ hind feet resembled a bat‘s and could

serve as hooks by which the animal could hang in preparation for flight. The second
hypothesis seems unlikely because large pterosaurs could not have landed in trees
without damaging their wings. The third calls for high waves to channel updrafts. The
wind that made such waves however, might have been too strong for the pterosaurs to
control their flight once airborne.

陈诺

Please view this. Hopefully it solve your problem:
"or even by rising into light winds from the crests of waves"

jiangbond

That's right. thank you