进军美利坚tpo阅读疑难解答帖

kila1002UID: 2806614

352# zenglingyuan
同学你没理解好那句句子的意思
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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.
这句话的意思是强调，最早的生物的那种symbiosis现象在这个地方时非常重要的。
然后你看第一句。
1.Some of the earliest important examples of symbiosis-the close cooperation of two or more living things-occur in island communities.  

这句话有强调symbiosis重要的意思吗？他只是进行了陈述，并没有对symbiosis进行评论" z: J
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3.The first organisms on these islands worked together closely in a relationship known as symbiosis, which is particularly important on islands.
这句就不一样了，which is particularly important on islands很好的体现了symbiosis的重要性，所以选3

反衬UID: 2328867

问一个OG7 的问题~~
Paragraph 5: The Whigs, in contrast, viewed government power positively. They believed that it should be used to protect individual rights and public liberty， and that it had a sp ...
zhaohan 发表于 2010-8-22 23:17

同学没有理解这种题目的基本要求。答案是文章各个部分的主旨概括，不能选取细节，就算文章讲过。

第4项明显是细节。而且讲得也不对。第5项来自第二段第二句。概括二三段段意。答案是原文的同义替换。不需要100%一样。

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352# zenglingyuan  
同学你没理解好那句句子的意思
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It is significant that the earliest living things that built communities on these islands are examples of symbiosis, a phenomenon th ...
kila1002 发表于 2010-8-22 23:53

Some of the earliest important examples of symbiosis 这不就是对第一句的 强调吗 important

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Some of the earliest important examples of symbiosis 这不就是对第一句的 强调吗 important
zenglingyuan 发表于 2010-8-23 13:32

这个句子你分析一下主谓宾就知道了。还有，important的修饰对象都不同

lynn27UID: 2774627

Delta里面的题目。

The means by which an art form presents its message is referred to as the medium. Thus, sound produced by instruments or human voices is the medium of music. Paint on canvas or paper is the medium of painting. For literature, the medium is written language. For theater, it is a story performed by actors on a stage.

题目：How does the art of theater convey its message?
A. an instrument or voice produces sound. (我选的，完全都是文章的原句啊）
B. a camera converts light to images on film.
C. people perform a story for another group.(答案）
D. A person writes a story for others to read.

=====================================

题目对应的句子：
The central character is Everyman, a human character, and the subject is death arriving before we want it to come --- a theme that is universal to humans.

题目：The word theme in paragraph 5 refers to
A. performers playing animals, objects, or ideas
B. death arriving before we want it to come
C. beauty, knowledge, and strength.
D. everyman as a central character.
(我选这个，我的句子结构分析是，A is B and C --- 破折号解释A。 为什么破折号是解释C。。。所有情况下都是解释C吗。。为什么不是看做B和C一个整体。。。A是BC。。然后破折号指代A啊。。）

wuqian0801UID: 2637709

365# lynn27
1 题目问载体嘛。。
原文说for theater, it is a story 。。。
这个story和上面canvas ，paper ，written language一样是并列的成分。要理解意思。
不是说选和原文一样的。那样通常是陷阱。
再说你选的：你觉得和原文一样。可是 要看清楚 题目问的是theater 你好歹选的东西要和theater相关吧?

2 这题我根本不分析。看到subject 应该就要敏感起来。。这个词也叫主题。
所以~~ 这题就是考察词汇吧..
如果你不知道的话，那么按照你的思路去分析。也可以。
句子前半部分已经说完了。从逗号可以知道。而且还有连词and
因此，theme理所应当要去表达和the subject is death。。之后的句子相关的意思。
还是该选B

fsi206914UID: 2684106

TPO7--罗马人那个
        Paragraph 3 Certainly, in trying to explain the Roman phenomenon, one would have to place great emphasis on this almost instinct for the territorial imperative. Roman priorities lay in the organization, exploitation, and defense of their territory. In all probability it was the fertile plain of Latium, where the Latins who founded Rome originated, that created the habits and skills of landed settlement, landed property, landed economy, landed administration, and a land-based society. From this arose the Roman genius for military organization and orderly government. In turn, a deep attachment to the land, and to the stability which rural life engenders, fostered the Roman virtues: gravitas, a sense of responsibility, peitas, a sense of devotion to family and country, and iustitia, a sense of the natural order.
       
        Paragraph 3 suggests which of the following about the people of Latium?
        ○Their economy was based on trade relations with other settlements.
        ○They held different values than the people of Rome.
        ○Agriculture played a significant role in the society.
        ○They possessed unusual knowledge of animal instincts

看见这个fertile plain选了C，但同时疑问，这个不一定就是significant啊
看到两个版本答案，分别是a 和 c，求教...

wuqian0801UID: 2637709

367# fsi206914
where the Latins who founded Rome originated, that created the habits and skills of landed settlement, landed property, landed economy, landed administration, and a land-based society.

choice1:说的是trade relationship干嘛的。 ->原文没说到这个。干掉！
再看choice3: 说的是农业的重要性。->原文说了是以土地为生。那么农业必然是扮演重要的角色。
因此。就是Choice3
这题题目没有明确说出农业。该是让我们推理一小下吧。。
anyway 原文的指向还是很明显的。
ps: 读选项不看个别单词，这样容易钻死角。看大方向。看句子重点。方便准确。(个人愚见)

kila1002UID: 2806614

367# fsi206914
A肯定不对的，他们的economy是建立在LAND上，不是和other settlements

xqsissyUID: 2812149

问反衬老师一道词汇题 ：） 谢谢～！

Paragraph 1: Pastoralism is a lifestyle in whicheconomic activity is based primarily on livestock. Archaeological evidencesuggests that by 3000 B.C., and perhaps even earlier, there had emerged on thesteppes of Inner Eurasia the distinctive types of pastoralism that were todominate the region's history for several millennia. Here, the horse wasalready becoming the animal of prestige in many regions, thoughsheep, goats, and cattle could also play a vital role. It is the use of horses for transportation andwarfare that explains why Inner Eurasian pastoralism proved the most mobile andthe most militaristic of all major fors of pastoralism. The emergenceand spread of pastoralism had a profound impact on the history ofInner Eurasia, and also, indirectly, on the parts of Asia and Europe justoutside this area. In particular, pastoralism favors a mobile lifestyle, andthis mobility helps to explain the impact of pastoralist societies on this partof the world

1. The word “prestige” in thepassage is closest in meaning to
○ interest
○ status
○ demand
○ profit


提问：正确答案是2－status. 但是我总觉得4－profit也对。



prestige “威望、威信” ; status 在这里是“象征”的意思吗？；profit 也表示了“代表、象征”为什么不可以呢？

请问是我对单词的理解有误吗？

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370# xqsissy Definition of PROFIT1
: a valuable return : gain

2
: the excess of returns over expenditure in a transaction or series of transactions; especially : the excess of the selling price of goods over their cost

3
: net income usually for a given period of time

4
: the ratio of profit for a given year to the amount of capital invested or to the value of sales

5
: the compensation accruing to entrepreneurs for the assumption of risk in business enterprise as distinguished from wages or rent
Definition of PRESTIGE1
: standing or estimation in the eyes of people : weight or credit in general opinion

2
: commanding position in people's minds
Definition of STATUS1
a : position or rank in relation to others <the status of a father>
b : relative rank in a hierarchy of prestige; especially : high prestige

2
: the condition of a person or thing in the eyes of the law

3
: state or condition with respect to circumstances <thestatus of the negotiations>




所以profit没有你说的那种意思哦。
status是指地位和prestige是指威望。所以比较类似。

反衬UID: 2328867

问反衬老师一道词汇题 ：） 谢谢～！


prestige “威望、威信” ; status 在这里是“象征”的意思吗？；profit 也表示了“代表、象征”为什么不可以呢？
请问是我对单词的理解有误吗？7 Y. x2 r/ J4 [- h5 H1 R. Y; X
xqsissy 发表于 2010-8-25 03:01

你的理解的确很有问题。具体看楼上同学的解释。

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Paragraph 5: In this newly emergingeconomic order, workers sometimes organized to protect their rights andtraditional ways of life. Craft workers such as carpenters, printers, andtailors formed unions, and in 1834 individual unions came together in theNational Trades' Union. The labor movement gathered some momentum in the decadebefore the Panic of 1837, but in the depression that followed, labor's strengthcollapsed. During hard times, few workers were willing to strike* orengage in collective action. And skilled craft workers, who spearheaded the union movement, did notfeel a particularly strong bond with semiskilled factory workers and unskilledlaborers. More than a decade of agitation did finally bring a workday shortenedto 10 hours to most industries by the 185O’s, and the courts also recognizedworkers' right to strike, but these gains had little immediate impact.

6. The phrase gathered some momentum
in the passage is closest in meaningto
○Made progress
○Became active
○Causedchanges
○Combinedforces
OG解释：

6. ○1

This is a Vocabulary question. The phrase being tested is "gatheredsome momentum." It is highlighted in the passage. The correct answer ischoice I, "made progress." To "gather momentum" means toadvance with increasing speed.

这个明显应该是D嘛

下面来自webster:

Definition of MOMENTUM1
: a property of a moving body that the body has by virtue of its mass and motion and that is equal to the product of the body's mass and velocity; broadly : a property of a moving body that determines the length of time required to bring it to rest when under the action of a constant force or moment

2
: strength or force gained by motion or through the development of events : impetus <the campaign gainedmomentum>

而且文中后面说but in the depression that followed, labor's strength collapsed.

所以后面是势力瓦解，很明显前面是获取势力嘛！

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【TPO-Reading-17_3  第五题】
At times, it is actually possible to watch the effects of natural selection in host-parasite relationships. For example, Australia during the 1940 s was overrun by hundreds of millions of European rabbits. The rabbits destroyed huge expanses of Australia and threatened the sheep and cattle industries. In 1950, myxoma virus, a parasite that affects rabbits, was deliberately introduced into Australia to control the rabbit population. Spread rapidly by mosquitoes, the virus devastated the rabbit population. The virus was less deadly to the offspring of surviving rabbits, however, and it caused less and less harm over the years. Apparently, genotypes (the genetic make-up of an organism) in the rabbit population were selected that were better able to resist the parasite. Meanwhile, the deadliest strains of the virus perished with their hosts as natural selection favored strains that could infect hosts but not kill them. Thus, natural selection stabilized this host-parasite relationship.

Which  of the following can be concluded from the discussion in paragraph 3 about Australian rabbit population?
A:Human invention may alter the host, parasite and the relation between them.
D: Organisms that survive a parasite attack do so in spite of the natural selection process.
在A、D两项之间有些徘徊。

zenglingyuanUID: 2773905

We all know that many more people today are right-handed than left-handed. Can one trace this same pattern far back in prehistory? Much of the evidence about right-hand versus left-hand dominance comes from stencils and prints found in rock shelters in Australia and elsewhere, and in many Ice Age caves in France, Spain, and Tasmania. When a left hand has been stenciled, this implies that the artist was right-handed, and vice versa. Even though the paint was often sprayed on by mouth, one can assume that the dominant hand assisted in the operation. One also has to make the assumption that hands were stenciled palm downward!aa left hand stenciled palm upward might of course look as if itwere a right hand. Of 158 stencils in the French cave of Gargas, 136 have been identified as left, and only 22 as right; right-handedness was therefore heavily predominant.
  cave art furnishes other types of evidence of this phenomenon. Most engravings, for example, are bestlit from the left, as befits the work of right-handed artists, who generally prefer to have the light source onthe left so that the shadow of their hand does not fall on the tip of the engraving tool or brush. In the few cases where an Ice Age figure is depicted holding something, it is mostly, though not always, in the
right hand.

5. All of the following are mentioned in paragraphs 1 and 2 as evidence of right-handedness in art and
artists EXCEPT
     1. the ideal source of lighting for most engraving
      2.  the fact that a left hand stenciled palm upward might look like a righthand                  
      3.the prevalence of outlines of left hands
      4.figures in prehistoric art holding objects with the right hand
怎么会是第二个？？有原文啊aa left hand stenciled palm upward might of course look as if itwere a right hand 应该是第三个