进军美利坚tpo阅读疑难解答帖

dandan17UID: 2812933

Paragraph 2：Yet this most fundamental standard of historical periodization conceals a host of paradoxes. Nearly every movie theater, however modest, had a piano or organ to provide musical accompaniment to silent pictures. In many instances, spectators in the era before recorded sound experienced elaborate aural presentations alongside movies' visual images, from the Japanese benshi (narrators) crafting multivoiced dialogue narratives to original musical compositions performed by symphony-size orchestras in Europe and the United States. In Berlin, for the premiere performance outside the Soviet Union of The Battleship Potemkin, film director Sergei Eisenstein worked with Austrian composer Edmund Meisel (1874-1930) on a musical score matching sound to image; the Berlin screenings with live music helped to bring the film its wide international fame.
5. Paragraph 2 suggests which of the following about Eisenstein’s film The Battleship Potemkirf?
○ The film was not accompanied by sound before its Berlin screening.
○ The film was unpopular in the Soviet Union before it was screened in Berlin.
○ Eisenstein’s film was the first instance of collaboration between a director and a composer.
○ Eisenstein believed that the musical score in a film was as important as dialogue.
这题我选的是C，哪里不对了？
是不是以前也有合作，只是没有现场？
定位段
In Berlin, for the premiere performance outside the Soviet Union of The Battleship Potemkin, film director Sergei Eisenstein worked with Austrian composer Edmund Meisel (1874-1930) on a musical score matching sound to image; the Berlin screenings with live music helped to bring the film its wide international fame.
从哪里推出是A呢？是不是最后一句话
柏林的放映电影的同时现场演奏音乐让这种电影形式有了国际影响力。(而以前是没有的？)

反衬UID: 2328867

Paragraph 2：Yet this most fundamental standard of historical periodization conceals a host of paradoxes. Nearly every movie theater, however modest, had a piano or organ to provide musical accompanim ...
dandan17 发表于 2010-8-28 16:32

关键字： premiere。理解好了这个字就行了

sourjuiceUID: 2869051

反衬老师还在吗，我前面问了TPO8的一道题，感觉刚开始看不出来，为什么是这个答案呢，脑袋转不过来了，55555......

反衬UID: 2328867

反衬老师还在吗，我前面问了TPO8的一道题，感觉刚开始看不出来，为什么是这个答案呢，脑袋转不过来了，55555......
sourjuice 发表于 2010-8-28 18:22

再贴一次吧

刀小镜UID: 2618532

399# 反衬

十分感谢反衬老师 我之前把but except in periods of military conquest和后面的too…to连在一起理解了 原来这个but except in periods of military conquest是个插入语

sourjuiceUID: 2869051

谢谢，在这里
TPO8 这道题不明白，谢谢解答
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.   
8. In paragraph 4, all the following questions are answered EXCEPT:
○Why is there a layer of clay between the rocks of the Cretaceous and Cenozoic?
○Why were scientists interested in determining how long it took to deposit the layer of clay at
the end of the Cretaceous?
○What was the effect of the surprising observation scientists made?
○Why did scientists want more  information about  the dinosaur extinctions at  the end of the
Cretaceous?
答案为什么是A？

zhaohanUID: 2595904

你看看第四个选项中的religious function有没有在最后一句话的for instance之后提过？ 完全没有。所以立马排除。
反衬 发表于 2010-8-28 11:07

可是老师为什么只看最后一句呢？ 她这段的大意就是想说status的religious function 啊。。。纠结。。还请老师赐教。。。

反衬UID: 2328867

可是老师为什么只看最后一句呢？ 她这段的大意就是想说status的religious function 啊。。。纠结。。还请老师赐教。。。
zhaohan 发表于 2010-8-28 21:46

首先要搞清楚题目问的是哪一个字眼。搞清楚他的位置了，你就知道为什么看最后一句了。

zhaohanUID: 2595904

TPO10 的一个问题~~十七世纪欧洲经济增长那篇的~~

The rapid expansion in international trade also benefitted from an infusion of capital, stemming largely from gold and silver brought by Spanish vessels from the Americas. This capital financed（v. 提供资金） the production of goods, storage, trade, and even credit across Europe and overseas.（14） Moreover an increased credit supply was generated by investments and loans by bankers and wealthy merchants to states（12） and by joint-stock partnerships - an English innovation （11）(the first major company began in 1600). Unlike short-term financial cooperation between investors for a single commercial undertaking, （12）joint-stock companies provided permanent funding of capital（12） by drawing on the investments of merchants and other investors who purchased shares in the company.

In late sixteenth-and early seventeenth-century Europe, increased agricultural production and the expansion of trade were important in economic growth
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Answer choices
○ Bringing more land under cultivation produced enough food to create surpluses for trade and investment as well as for supporting the larger populations that led to the growth of rural industry.
○ Most rural villages established an arrangement with a nearby urban center that enabled villagers to take advantage of urban markets to sell any handicrafts they produced.
○ Increases in population and the expansion of trade led to increased manufacturing, much of it small-scale in character but some requiring significant capital investment.
○ Increased capital was required for the production of goods, for storage, for trade, and for the provision of credit throughout of Europe as well as distant markets overseas.？？？？
○ Bills of exchange were invented in medieval Italy but became less important as banks began to provide loans for merchants.
○ The expansion of trade was facilitated by developments in banking and financial services and benefitted from the huge influx of capital in the form of gold silver from the Americas？？？？
我个人认为应该选134， 但是刘文勇老师的答案是136 我觉得6的金银的阐述是错误的。。。摆脱大家帮帮忙啦O(∩_∩)O

反衬UID: 2328867

TPO10 的一个问题~~十七世纪欧洲经济增长那篇的~~

The rapid expansion in international trade also benefitted from an infusion of capital, stemming largely from gold and silver brought by Spanish vesse ...
zhaohan 发表于 2010-8-29 10:25

4错，6没错。 Gold在那段话的首句已经提到了。4不是本文要说的主要问题。4直说了需要大量Capital，但是文章说的是什么东西提供了这些capital

dandan17UID: 2812933

TPO11(1)
Paragraph 1：Inorder to understand ancient Egyptian art, it is vital to know asmuch as possible of the elite Egyptians' view of the world and the functionsand contexts of the art produced for them. Without this knowledge we can appreciate only the formal content of Egyptian art,and we will fail tounderstand why it was produced or the concepts that shaped it and caused it to adopt its distinctive forms. Infact, a lack of understandingconcerning the purposes of Egyptian art has often led it to be comparedunfavorably with the art of othercultures: Why did theEgyptians not develop sculpture in which the body turned and twistedthrough space like classical Greek statuary? Why do the artists seem to getleft and right confused? And why did they not discover the geometricperspective as European artists did in the Renaissance? The answer to such questions has nothing to dowith a lack of skill or imagination on the part of Egyptian artists andeverything to do with the purposes for which they were producing their art.

3. In paragraph 1, the authormentions all of the following as necessary in appreciating Egyptian art EXCEPT anunderstanding of

○ the reasons why the artwas made

○ the nature of aristocraticEgyptian beliefs

○ the influences of Egyptian art on later art such asclassical Greek art

○ how the art was used ？

A选项来自we will fail to understand why it was produced
C（错）定位句：Why did the Egyptians not develop sculpture in which the body turned and twisted through space like classical Greek statuary?（没有提到influence的关系）
BD的定位感觉都不是很明确
B选项是综合了why的结果？这些why都是nature本质?
D选项 why里面好像都没提到，难道是段落首句里的the functions？

反衬UID: 2328867

TPO11(1)
Paragraph 1：Inorder to understand ancient Egyptian art, it is vital to know asmuch as possible of the elite Egyptians' view of the world and the functionsand contexts of the art produced fo ...
dandan17 发表于 2010-8-29 14:31

第一句里面： the elite Egyptians' view of the world

zhaohanUID: 2595904

问一个TPO9 的问题~~~教学中的反思那篇的~~

Helping this group of teachers to revise their thinking about classroom events became central. （8）This process took time and patience and effective trainers. The researchers estimate that the initial training of the same teachers to view events objectively took between 20 and 30 hours, with the same number of hours again being required to practice the skills of reflection.
13. 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 answer choices 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.  

Wildman and Niles have conducted research on reflection in teaching
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Answer Choices
1.        Through their work with Virginia teachers, Wildman and Niles proved conclusively that reflection, though difficult, benefits both teachers and students.
2.        Wildman and Niles found that considerable training and practice are required to understand classroom events and develop the skills involved in reflection.
3.        Wildman and Niles identified three principles that teachers can use to help themselves cope with problems that may arise as a result of reflection.
4.        Wildman and Niles concluded that teachers need sufficient resources as well as the cooperation and encouragement of others to practice reflection.
5.        There are numerous obstacles to implementing reflection in schools and insufficient understanding of why teachers might want to reflect.
6.        Whether teachers can overcome the difficulties involved in reflection may depend on the nature and intensity of their motivation to reflect.
我在 2 和 3 指尖犹豫不定~~最后答案是3 但是我觉得2 也对的啊~~~是上面摘录的那段的主旨~~谢谢~~~O(∩_∩)O

mich1220UID: 2712526

同样是TPO6， Infantile Amnesia那一篇4
Paragraph 3: Three other explanations seem more promising．0ne involves physiological changes relevant to memory. Maturation of the frontal lobes of the brain continues throughout early childhood．And this part of the brain may be critical for remembering particular episodes in ways that can be retrieved later. Demonstrations of infants’ and toddlers' long-term memory have involved their repeating motor activities that they had seen or done earlier，such as reaching in the dark for objects, putting a bottle in a doll’s mouth, or pulling apart two pieces of a toy. The brain’s level of physiological maturation may support these types of memories，but not ones requiring explicit verbal descriptions.
What does paragraph 3 suggest about long-term memory in children?
1 ○Maturation of the frontal lobes of the brain is important for the long-term memory of motor activities but not verbal descriptions．
○Young children may form long-term memories of actions they see earlier than of things they hear or are told．
○Young children have better long-term recall of short verbal exchanges than of long ones．
○Children’s long-term recall of motor activities increases when such activities are accompanied by explicit verbal descriptions
有人问过了，但我想知道为什么A不对？？？？？谢谢各位啦

domUID: 2893278

谢谢楼主解答！！

TPO14   Pastoralism in Ancient Inner Eurasia

Paragraph 4: Nomadism also subjects pastoralist communities to strict rules of portability. If you are constantly on the move, you cannot afford to accumulate large material surpluses. Such rules limit variations in accumulated material goods between pastoralist households (though they may also encourage a taste for portable goods of high value such as silks or jewelry). So, by and large, nomadism implies a high degree of self-sufficiency and inhibits the appearance of an extensive division of labor. Inequalities of wealth and rank certainly exist, and have probably existed in most pastoralist societies, but except in periods of military conquest, they are normally too slight to generate the stable, hereditary hierarchies that are usually implied by the use of the term class. lnequalities of gender have also existed in pastoralist societies, but they seem to have been softened by the absence of steep hierarchies of wealth in most communities, and also by the requirement that women acquire most of the skills of men, including, often, their military skills.

10 According to paragraph 4, all of the following are true of social inequality in pastoralist societies EXCEPT:
○ It exists and has existed to some degree in most pastoral societies.
○ It is most marked during periods of military conquest.
○ It is expressed in the form of a rigid hierarchy based largely on heredity.
○ It is usually too insignificant to be discussed in terms of class differences.

非常不明白，为什么B：It is most marked during periods of military conquest 不选。
都说 but except in periods of military conquest，为什么还是It is most marked during periods ...呢？

非常感谢！！！！！！！！