年底大贴——TPO阅读疑难问题汇总解答

amandateng0912UID: 2762797

ARCHITECTURE
Paragraph 5: Modern architectural forms generally have three separate components comparable to elements of the human body; a supporting skeleton or frame, an outer skin enclosing the interior spaces, equipment, similar to the body’s vital organs and systems. The equipment includes plumbing, electrical wiring, hot water, and air-conditioning. Of course in early architecture—such as igloos and adobe structures—there was no such equipment, and the skeleton and skin were often one.: i) D$ A% k, a# D  T! u

8. Which of the following correctly characterizes the relationship between the human body and architecture that is described in paragraph5?9 D) \  p& `1 i7 \# S2 n: P
○Complex equipment inside buildings is the one element in modern architecture that resembles a component of the human body.
○The components in early buildings were similar to three particular elements of the human body.. l% p2 k5 s2 B" T
○Modern buildings have components that are as likely to change as the human body is.
○In general, modern buildings more closely resemble the human body than earlier buildings do.

为啥选D不选A？？？
谢谢 犇人们了~！！！

反衬UID: 2328867

ARCHITECTURE
Paragraph 5: Modern architectural forms generally have three separate components comparable to elements of the human body; a supporting skeleton or frame, an outer skin enclosing the int ...
amandateng0912 发表于 2010-5-30 14:24

题干中的architecture没有具体指Modern还是early，所以题目问的是整段的关系。而A只讲了片断，D涵盖了整段。所以D更好一点。

amandateng0912UID: 2762797

212# 反衬
真的很谢谢你！！！:loveliness:

sobeit07UID: 2800237

这种贴要怎么收藏

amandateng0912UID: 2762797

214# sobeit07 把这些题目都弄会了，就是最好的收藏~

amandateng0912UID: 2762797

再次呼唤【犇犇人】们~~~O(∩_∩)O谢谢啦！！！
Deer Populations of the Puget Sound
   Paragraph 2: Nearly any kind of plant of the forest understory can be part of a deer's diet. Where the forest inhibits the growth of grass and other meadow plants, the black-tailed deer browses on huckleberry, salad, dogwood, and almost any other shrub or herb. But this is fair-weather feeding. What keeps the black-tailed deer alive in the harsher seasons of plant decay and dormancy? One compensation for not hibernating is the built-in urge to migrate. Deer may move from high-elevation browse areas in summer down to the lowland areas in late fall. Even with snow on the ground, the high bushy understory is exposed; also snow and wind bring down leafy branches of cedar, hemlock, red alder, and other arboreal fodder.

    2.  It can be inferred from the discussion in paragraph 2 that winter conditions
○ Cause some deer to hibernate
○ Make food unavailable in the highlands for deer
○ Make it easier for deer to locate understory plants
○Prevent deer from migrating during the winter

    为什么选C不选B？（我看好多地儿答案都不一样，到底是B还是C啊？）谢谢啦~！

反衬UID: 2328867

再次呼唤【犇犇人】们~~~O(∩_∩)O谢谢啦！！！
Deer Populations of the Puget Sound
   Paragraph 2: Nearly any kind of plant of the forest understory can be part of a deer's diet. Where the forest inhi ...
amandateng0912 发表于 2010-6-1 21:10

我认为选B对， C错。

文中What keeps the black-tailed deer alive in the harsher seasons of plant decay and dormancy? 这句话提出了植物腐烂和不生长的季节。下一句中提到migrate，Deer may move from high-elevation browse areas in summer down to the lowland areas in late fall.，也就意味着winter is the seaon of plant decay and dormancy,可以理解为food unavailable.


C选项的表达说冬天让食物寻找更容易，但是原文Even with snow on the ground, the high bushy understory is exposed; 是一个让步关系， “就算有雪”。。。。。所以雪的存在不是一个便利条件，而是一个阻碍。Deer在冬天只能找到High bushy understory。雪盖住的就吃不到了。 而且后文中提到雪和风带来cedar, hemlock, red alder, and other arboreal fodder，这些词当中大多数是高大乔木，不是灌木。所以也不能支持C选项的说法。

本道题目的关键是读懂“Even with”这个逻辑关系

baotian1UID: 2797192

问道tpo13 第二篇的题目Animals need natural periodic signals like sunrise to maintain a cycle whose period is precisely 24 hours. ■Such an external cue not only coordinates an animal's daily rhythms with particular features of the local solar day but also—because it normally does so day after day-seems to keep the internal clock's period close to that of Earth's rotation.

11. The word it in the passage refers to

○ an external cue such as sunrise

○ the daily rhythm of an animal

○ the local solar day

○ a cycle whose period is precisely 24 hours
这道题怎么能快速选出是A呢

反衬UID: 2328867

问道tpo13 第二篇的题目Animals need natural periodic signals like sunrise to maintain a cycle whose period is precisely 24 hours. ■Such an external cue not only coordinates an animal's daily rhythms with particular features of the local solar day but also—because it normally does so day after day-seems to keep the internal clock's period close to that of Earth's rotation. ! y" y9 L4 I, C3 h. k* L, Q% w" I3 Z- y% e% @3 F3 l& D) ~! F1 m2 Q5 \. Z , P. ^- O6 v) U5 R, A* b9 b9 I, l ! d" T- w- N  x: G- _  ], Y % F0 d: w9 G! B9 j% O( `5 } 11. The word it in the passage refers to 8 @0 ~' Y5 C4 A ○ an external cue such as sunrise 2 j- O- }% F3 g3 H2 y- P; z ○ the daily rhythm of an animal   Z; E) M( ^& a! a: N ○ the local solar day 0 S9 T4 _3 n* G) b6 n/ R1 z3 d ○ a cycle whose period is precisely 24 hours 2 B/ U0 l7 R0 \: m0 b这道题怎么能快速选出是A呢

baotian1 发表于 2010-6-20 16:16

it does so 表明 是个单数名词做了个相同动作。也就表明你要迅速回上一句找个发出一个动作的单数名词，那就只能是上一句的主语了。

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Begging by Nestlings (TPO11)
14. Directions: 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.
To review passage, Click View Text
Experiments have shed much light on the begging behaviors of baby
songbirds.
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Answer Choices
􀂅 Songbird species that are especially vulnerable to predators have evolved ways of reducing the
dangers associated with begging calls.
􀂅 It is genetically disadvantageous for nestlings to behave as if they are really hungry when they are not
really hungry.
􀂅 The success with which songbird nestlings communicate their hunger to their parents is dependent on
the frequencies of the nestlings' begging calls.
􀂅 Songbird parents focus their feeding effort on the nestlings that beg loudest for food.
􀂅 The begging calls of songbird nestlings provide a good example of overly damaging cost to signalers of
signaling.
􀂅 Songbird nestlings have evolved several different ways to communicate the intensity of their hunger to
their parents.

请问第五个为什么不对啊

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tpo 10 欧洲经济
Paragraph 1：In the late sixteenth century and into the seventeenth, Europe continued the growth that had lifted it out of the relatively less prosperous medieval period (from the mid ...
AC007 发表于 2010-10-13 17:00

我的理解是欧洲经济被拉出发展滞慢的阶段
lift  在这就是提升的意思吧
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还有人么？？

TPO11   Ancient Egyptian Sculpture
para1：In order to understand ancient Egyptian art, it is 【vital】 to know as much as possible of the elite
Egyptians' view of the world and the functions and contexts of the art produced for them. Without this
knowledge we can appreciate only the formal content of Egyptian art, and we will fail to understand why it
was produced or the concepts that shaped it and caused it to adopt its distinctive forms. In fact, a lack of
understanding concerning the purposes of Egyptian art has often led it to be compared unfavorably with
the art of other cultures: Why did the Egyptians not develop sculpture in which the body turned and
twisted through space like classical Greek statuary? Why do the artists seem to get left and right
confused? And why did they not discover the geometric perspective as European artists did in the
Renaissance? The answer to such questions has nothing to do with a lack of skill or imagination on the
part of Egyptian artists and everything to do with the purposes for which they were producing their art.

2. Paragraph 1 suggests that one reason Egyptian art is viewed less favorably than other art is that
Egyptian art lacks
. a realistic sense of human body proportion
. a focus on distinctive forms of varying sizes
. the originality of European art
. the capacity to show the human body in motion

我理解的原文意思是埃及雕塑没有展示人类身体姿势的部分，但标准答案D是说没有能力展现，我不理解
我选的是A，说实话我没理解A是什么意思，缺乏展现人类身体部分的现实意识？
只是我用排除选了A

求解

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new_chengUID: 3035485

【The key factor in the success of these countries (along with high literacy, which contributed to it) was their ability to adapt to the international division of labor determined by the early industrializers and to stake out areas of specialization in international markets for which they were especially well suited】.  This meant a great dependence on international commerce, which had notorious fluctuations; but it also meant high returns to those factors of production that were fortunate enough to be well placed in times of prosperity. In Sweden exports accounted for 18 percent of the national income in 1870, and in 1913, 22 percent of a much larger national income. In the early twentieth century, Denmark exported 63 percent of its agricultural production: butter, pork products, and eggs. It exported 80 percent of its butter, almost all to Great Britain, where it accounted for 40 percent of British butter imports.
10. Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence in the passage? Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information
A        The early industrializes controlled most of the international economy, leaving these countries to stake out new areas of specialization along the margins
B        Aided by their high literacy rates these countries were able to claim key areas of specialization within established international markets.
C        High literacy rates enabled these countries to take over international markets and adapt the international division of labor to suit their strengths.
D        The international division of labor established by the early industrializes was suited to these countries ,a key factor in their success

现在还有人回答问题吗？
我这道题感觉好像都是错的
答案是C
但我感觉原文没有说是enable
原文那个contribution应该是说对success的contribution，我当时做的时候认为是迷惑项
望解答

suanmiaoUID: 3616591

找了好久终于找到了

阿TTUID: 3573792

不造这贴还有人么。。。
【Paragraph 2】Starting about 280 million years ago, reptiles were the dominant large animals in terrestrial environments. In popular language this was the era “when dinosaurs ruled Earth,” when a wide variety of reptile species occupying many ecological niches. However, no group or species can maintain its dominance indefinitely, and when, after over 200 million years, the age of dinosaurs came to a dramatic end about 65 million years ago, mammals began to flourish, evolving from relatively few types of small terrestrial animals into the myriad of diverse species, including bats and whales, that we know today. Paleontologists label this point in Earth’s history as the end of the Cretaceous period and the beginning of the Tertiary period, often abbreviated as the K-T boundary. This time was also marked by changes in many other types of organisms. Overall, about 38 percent of the families of marine animals were lost, with percentages much higher in some groups Ammonoid mollusks went from being very diverse and abundant to being extinct. An extremely abundant set of planktonic marine animals called foraminifera largely disappeared, although they rebounded later. Among plants, the K-T boundary saw a sharp but brief rise in the abundance of primitive vascular plants such as ferns, club mosses, horsetails, and conifers and other gymnosperms. The number of flowering plants (angiosperms) was reduced at this time, but they then began to increase dramatically.
5. According to paragraph 2, which of the following species initially increased in number at the K-T boundary?
○Dinosaurs
○Foraminifera
○Ferns
○Ammonoid mollusks

我自己选D。看了小站和黄金阅读的答案却是C。表示十分不解。求解答！谢谢各位大神！