The origins of cetaceans
P1: cetaceans和哺乳动物有关系+(提出问题)前期形象不好推测,演化过程是怎样呢?
P2:可能说明起源的一个发现Pakicefus
P3:关于发现推测的charactor
P4:第二个 discovery(a fully marine)
P5: another discovery (在前两个之间,半水半陆)
第一题:2 (
fluke1 and blowhole2 cannot disguise their affinities with land dwelling mammals)
第二题:1(it is not easy to envision what the first whales looked like取非)
第三题:3(有价值的=有价值的)
第四题:3(The skull is cetacean-like )
第五题:1(与前一句实际主语一致)
六: 2(暴露的~~可看见的,identify:可识别的)
七: 4(Such legs would have been far too small to have supported the 50-foot-long Basilosaurus on land. )
八: 4(Basilosaurus was undoubtedly a fully marine whale)
九: 2(因为hind leg给出了一种过渡状态,give important information, 所以。。。)
第十题:3(主句包含让步,强调尽管没有fluke,仍swam like modern whales)
十一 :4 (看到in water 猜的)
十二 :2(this说明问题在前面出现)
十三:125(1和5,2~5段都在说这个问题。2是第五段的内容)
第一题:2(威胁=威胁)
第二题:2(
the reduction of vegetation typically results in the loss of the soil's ability to absorb substantial quantities of water)
第三题:1(脆弱=脆弱)
第四题:1(e pressure on the land is often far in excess of its diminished capacity)
第五题;4(逐渐干涸)
第六题:3(
raising of most crops necessitates the prior removal of the natural vegetation)
第七题:4(缺乏=缺乏)
第八题:4(bringing dissolved salts to the surface)
第九题:3(Over irrigation)
第十题:1(句子是因果关系,而且讲得是严重沙漠化的原因)
第十一题:3(我选了1, 没有注意到只是一个小让步)
第十二题:2(this economic reliance 所以前面应该提到economic reliance)
第十三题:134(1第五段,3第七八段,4第九段~都是各自段主要内容)