进军美利坚tpo阅读疑难解答帖

fsi206914UID: 2684106

忘了说啦，这是TPO11 的第二篇

luolnUID: 2689004

楼主可不可以在前面给个索引，哪一楼问了哪道题，这样便于避免重复性提问呢？

joyce0216UID: 2835630

TPO7第一篇
Paragraph 3 With question such as these clearly before them, the scientists aboard the Glomar Challenger processed to the Mediterranean to search for the answers. On August 23, 1970, they recovered a sample. The sample consisted of pebbles of gypsum and fragments of volcanic rock. Not a single pebble was found that might have indicated that the pebbles came from the nearby continent. In the days following, samples of solid gypsum were repeatedly brought on deck as drilling operations penetrated the seafloor. Furthermore, the gypsum was found to possess peculiarities of composition and structure that suggested it had formed on desert flats. Sediment above and below the gypsum layer contained tiny marine fossils, indicating open-ocean conditions. As they drilled into the central and deepest part of the Mediterranean basin, the scientists took solid, shiny, crystalline salt from the core barrel. Interbedded with the salt were thin layers of what appeared to be windblown silt.
4．Which of the following can be inferred from paragraph 3 about the solid gypsum layer?
○It did not contain any marine fossil.
○It had formed in open-ocean conditions.
○It had once been soft, deep-sea mud.
○It contained sediment from nearby deserts
为什么选A？谢谢。。

hycqyUID: 2819662

438# joyce0216
因为是推断题 答案不会直接出现在文中 但是从这句话：Sediment above and below the gypsum layer contained tiny marine fossils 可以推断出gypsum中是没有fossils的 只有它的上面和下面有

joyce0216UID: 2835630

439# hycqy 非常感谢~

开若兰UID: 2561957

关键字： premiere。理解好了这个字就行了
反衬 发表于 2010-8-28 16:37

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.

定位句
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.

从上句，我们可以得到三点信息：
1、Berlin 是 Eisenstein’s film The Battleship Potemkirf 在 Soviet Union 之外的首场放映；
2、在 Berlin，the film was accompanied by sound；
3、很可能在 Soviet Union 的放映时间比在 Berlin 的早，要不然，就不用强调 "the premiere performance outside the Soviet Union"。

然而，我认为以上前两点信息并不足以支持 A 选项的正确性。因为有一种可能性，在 Soviet Union，the film 也是 accompanied by sound，可是由于种种原因，比如说，政治原因或受众数量等原因，并没有 bring the film its wide international fame.

wuqian0801UID: 2637709

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 accomp ...
开若兰 发表于 2010-9-4 15:52

逆向思维来不就可以了。。。 不管足不足够支撑哪个选项。 排除掉必错的就够了。
做出来正确就好——

不过。赞下你的较劲—— 呵呵

开若兰UID: 2561957

逆向思维来不就可以了。。。 不管足不足够支撑哪个选项。 排除掉必错的就够了。
做出来正确就好——

不过。赞下你的较劲—— 呵呵
wuqian0801 发表于 2010-9-4 17:34

我发这个帖子的原因是，这道题的参考答案就是 A。而我就是要质疑这个参考答案的正确性。

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 accomp ...
然而，我认为以上前两点信息并不足以支持 A 选项的正确性。因为有一种可能性，在 Soviet Union，the film 也是 accompanied by sound，可是由于种种原因，比如说，政治原因或受众数量等原因，并没有 bring the film its wide international fame.
开若兰 发表于 2010-9-4 15:52

原句 开头还有个for。表明 work on a musical score的目的就是为了这次苏联外的首映。分号后的文字很明显想强调music对于international fame的重要性。所以答案必定与music有关。另外三个选项都出现了原文没有提过的逻辑关系或者对象。而原文取反就得出A选项了。

托福不是GMAT，也不是GRE，不需要这样复杂的逻辑推理。答案是否正确，只能用原文给出的信息来判断，而不能加入文章以外的信息（包括阅读者自己的背景知识和脱离原文的主观判断）。答案就是与文章讲过信息最接近的选项。用这个标准既可以排除错项，也可以找到正确选项。“因为有一种可能性，在 Soviet Union，the film 也是 accompanied by sound，”“可是由于种种原因，比如说，政治原因或受众数量等原因并没有 bring the film its wide international fame” 这显然是同学自己的臆想。

这种较劲在考试里面可是很要命的。

还有，如果这道题这位同学觉得A不对，那正确选项应该是哪一个呢？

icedotUID: 2892953

445# heycd

Only when European decorative themes were introduced did these meanings become obscured or even lost.
这一句是only+状语从句的部分倒装， 原句应该是，only when European decorative themes were introduced, these meanings became obscured or even lost. 也就是说，如果没有European decorative themes的传入，那么这些含义就不会变得如此隐晦，甚至丢失。选2，而4中的as-as-明显是比较式的，文中并没有比较的意思~

zhaohanUID: 2595904

TPO 7 求助~~
古埃及与古罗马那篇


Paragraph 5 Rome’s debt to Greece was enormous. The Romans adopted Greek religion and moral philosophy. In literature, Greek writers were consciously used as models by their Latin successors. It was absolutely accepted that an educated Roman should be fluent in Greek. In speculative philosophy and the sciences, the Romans made virtually no advance on early achievements.
Paragraph 6 Yet it would be wrong to suggest that Rome was somehow a junior partner in Greco-Roman civilization. The Roman genius was projected into new spheres—especially into those of law, military organization, administration, and engineering. Moreover, the tensions that arose within the Roman state produced literary and artistic sensibilities of the highest order. It was no accident that many leading Roman soldiers and statesmen were writers of high caliber.


1.
Which of the following statements about leading Roman soldiers and statesmen is supported by paragraphs 5 and 6?
○They could read and write the Greek language.
○They frequently wrote poetry and plays.
○They focused their writing on military matters.
○They wrote according to the philosophical laws of the Greeks.
我觉得第四个选项是第六段后半部分想表达的意思啊~~~谢谢O(∩_∩)O

viiiiiienaUID: 2716640

TPO13 第二篇 Biological Clocks
        Paragraph 2：When crayfish are kept continuously in the dark, even for four to five months, their compound eyes continue to adjust on a daily schedule for daytime and nighttime vision. Horseshoe crabs kept in the dark continuously for a year were found to maintain a persistent rhythm of brain activity that similarly adapts their eyes on a daily schedule for bright or for weak light. Like almost all daily cycles of animals deprived of environmental cues, those measured for the horseshoe crabs in these conditions were not exactly 24 hours. Such a rhythm whose period is approximately—but not exactly—a day is called circadian. For different individual horseshoe crabs, the circadian period ranged from 22.2 to 25.5 hours. A particular animal typically maintains its own characteristic cycle duration with great precision for many days. Indeed, stability of the biological clock's period is one of its major features, even when the organism's environment is subjected to considerable changes in factors, such as temperature, that would be expected to affect biological activity strongly. Further evidence for persistent internal rhythms appears when the usual external cycles are shifted—either experimentally or by rapid east-west travel over great distances. Typically, the animal's daily internally generated cycle of activity continues without change. As a result, its activities are shifted relative to the external cycle of the new environment. The disorienting effects of this mismatch between external time cues and internal schedules may persist, like our jet lag, for several days or weeks until certain cues such as the daylight/darkness cycle reset the organism's clock to synchronize with the daily rhythm of the new environment.
        10. In paragraph 2, why does the author mention that the period for different horseshoe crabs ranges from 22.2 to 25.5 hours?
        ○ To illustrate that an animal's internal clock seldom has a 24-hour cycle
        ○ To argue that different horseshoe crabs will shift from daytime to nighttime vision at different times
        ○ To illustrate the approximate range of the circadian rhythm of all animals
        ○ To support the idea that external cues are the only factors affecting an animal's periodic behavior
为什么选4？我选3~

反衬UID: 2328867

TPO 7 求助~~
古埃及与古罗马那篇


Paragraph 5 Rome’s debt to Greece was enormous. The Romans adopted Greek religion and moral philosophy. In literature, Greek writers were consciously used as mod ...
○They wrote according to the philosophical laws of the Greeks.0 q0 Z8 F- s& E1 q8 Z2 e/ U9 y
我觉得第四个选项是第六段后半部分想表达的意思啊~~~谢谢O(∩_∩)O
zhaohan 发表于 2010-9-5 11:31

laws of the Greeks文章都没有提过。

反衬UID: 2328867

TPO13 第二篇 Biological Clocks
        Paragraph 2：When crayfish are kept continuously in the dark, even for four to five months, their compound eyes continue to adjust on a daily schedule for daytime and  ...

为什么选4？我选3~
viiiiiiena 发表于 2010-9-5 12:23

这道题答案是第一个。