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OG，文勇第一篇applied arts and fine arts 第七题，请问选项五为何不对？
        7. An introductory sentence for a brief summary of the passage is provided below. Complete the summary by selecting the THREE answer choices that express the most important ideas in the passage. Some sentences do not belong in the summary because they express ideas that are not presented in the passage or are minor ideas in the passage. This question is worth 2 points.
        
        This passage discusses fundamental differences between applied-art objects and fine-art objects.
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        ○The fine arts are only affected by the laws of physics because of the limitations of the materials that are used.
        ○ Applied-art objects are bound by the laws of physics in two ways: by the materials used to make them, and the function they are to serve.
        ○ Crafts are known as "applied arts" because it used to be common to think of them in terms of their function.
        ○ In the fine arts, artists must work to overcome the limitations of their materials, but in the applied arts, artists work in concert with their materials.
        ○Making fine-art objects stable requires an understanding of the properties of mass, weight, distribution, and stress.
        ○In the twentieth century, artists working in the fine arts often treat materials in new ways whereas applied arts specialists continue to think of crafts in terms of function.
yiqilu 发表于 2010-1-8 17:55

文章结构很清晰。第一段applied arts 第二段 fine arts 第三段总结两者的区别和关联。主要区别就在于functional是否是主要目标。
选项分析：
A 和2段不符合
B 原文有和这句话同意的
C 原文第一句，但是时态应该是过去时。
D 原文最后一句
E 原文是指雕塑，不是所有的fine-art objects
F 第三段第一句

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TPO9  THE ARRIVAL OF PLANT LIFE IN HAWAII
Paragraph 2: Spores light enough to float on the breezes were carried thousands of miles from more ancient lands and deposited at random across the bare mountain flanks. A few of these spores found a toehold on the dark, forbidding rocks and grew and began to work their transformation upon the land. Lichens were probably the first successful flora. These are not single individual plants; each one is a symbiotic combination of an alga and a fungus. The algae capture the Sun's energy by photosynthesis and store it in organic molecules. The fungi absorb moisture and mineral salts from the rocks, passing these on in waste products that nourish algae. It is significant that the earliest living things that built communities on these islands are examples of symbiosis , a phenomenon that depends upon the close cooperation of two or more forms of life and a principle that is very important in island communities.

2. It can be inferred from paragraph 2 that the fungi in lichens benefit from their symbiotic relationship with algae in what way?
○The algae help the fungi meet some of their energy needs.
○The algae protect the fungi from the Sun's radiation.
○The algae provide the fungi with greater space for absorbing water.
○The fungi produce less waste in the presence of algae.

这个题出的好诡异 我当时选了D 因为原文中也就waste 出现了还靠点谱才选的
答案却是A 是不是因为题中说的是infer  所以不需要在原文中有明确定位

在之，D项是不是和原文说的不一致？原文说的是fungi排出的waste正好是algae的食物（The fungi absorb moisture and mineral salts from the rocks, passing these on in waste products that nourish algae）， 而不是 D项所说的  produce less （实际上，排出的不少，是因为algae都给吃了。对不？）

求求大家快点解答 快来啊......
ruirui_hsu 发表于 2010-1-8 21:12

infer也是有明确定位的。定位句就是你标示的红字和之前的那句。
注意题干里面两者的关系。题目问的是共生关系如何帮助fungi了。
赞同你对D选项的理解。
定位A：红字前面那句：捕捉太阳能量后存储在organic molecules 里面。

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TPO8  EXTINCTION OF THE DINOSAURS
Paragraph 4 Dissatisfaction with conventional explanations for dinosaur extinctions led to a surprising observation that, in turn, has suggested a new hypothesis. Many plants and animals disappear abruptly from the fossil record as one moves from layers of rock documenting the end of the Cretaceous up into rocks representing the beginning of the Cenozoic (the era after the Mesozoic). Between the last layer of Cretaceous rock and the first layer of Cenozoic rock, there is often a thin layer of clay. Scientists felt that they could get an idea of how long the extinctions took by determining how long it took to deposit this one centimeter of clay and they thought they could determine the time it took to deposit the clay by determining the amount of the element iridium (lr) it contained.

7. Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence in the passage? In correct choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.
○The fossil record suggests that there was an abrupt extinction of many plants and animals at the end of the Mesozoic era.
○Few fossils of the Mesozoic era have survived in the rocks that mark the end of the Cretaceous.
○Fossils from the Cretaceous period of the Mesozoic up to the beginning of the Cenozoic era have been removed from the layers of rock that surrounded them.
○Plants and animals from the Mesozoic era were unable to survive in the Cenozoic era.

答案选A。阴影部分的句子我 前半句理解，从as后面开始就不理解什么意思了 说一个人把一层...移动到了另一层...
我看文勇的翻译是翻译成了：把这层跟另外一层进行比较。 我头晕了move ..up into ...就是作比较？

这个题CD选项很迷惑了。
ruirui_hsu 发表于 2010-1-9 19:15

红字部分我的解释：当人们（one的指代）观察化石的时候，从岩石中记录Cretaceous末期的那一层转到Cenozoic初期那一层的时候，会发现很多动植物忽然从化石中消失了。
看懂句子以后cd应该好懂了

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TPo12 Which Hand Did They Use?

Paragraph 4：Fractures and other cut marks are another source of evidence. Right-handed soldiers tend to be wounded on the left. The skeleton of a 40- or 50-year-old Nabatean warrior, buried 2,000 years ago in the Negev Desert, Israel, had multiple healed fractures to the skull, the left arm, and the ribs.

7. Which of the following statements about fractures and cut marks can be inferred from paragraph 4?
○ Fractures and cut marks caused by right-handed soldiers tend to occur on the right side of the injured party's body.
○ The right arm sustains more injuries because, as the dominant arm, it is used more actively.
○ In most people, the left side of the body is more vulnerable to injury since it is not defended effectively by the dominant arm.
○ Fractures and cut marks on fossil humans probably occurred after death.
文勇答案给的是4，费解中啊~
magicwang2006 发表于 2010-1-12 11:29

我选C