进军美利坚tpo阅读疑难解答帖

反衬UID: 2328867

又是一道词汇题！ 我栽到它手上了。。。 Paragraph 4: The differences in feeding preferences lead, in turn, to differences in migratory habits. The wildebeests follow, in their migration, the pattern of local rainfall. The other species do likewise. But when a new area is fueled by rain, the mammals migrate toward it in a set order to exploit it. The larger, less fastidious feeders, the zebras, move in first; the choosier, smaller wildebeests come later; and the smallest species of all, Thomson’s gazelle, arrives last. The later species all depend on the preparations of the earlier one, for the actions of the zebra alter the vegetation to suit the stomachs of the wildebeest, topi, and gazelle.  $ v% V0 @; P5 ?7 f" [9 @& ? + a2 ]! u5 }, f 10. The word fastidious in the passage is closest in meaning to; j; C5 l% j$ ]& M5 W ○rapid+ J4 d" s9 Z0 Y4 O4 o; y7 m ○determined. Q: o4 f, o+ ^' v5 Y" E9 b ○flexible demanding; P* p+ h8 j6 n 0 H/ b4 W1 r) I& T2 X$ v+ A 做题的思路： fast－-看起来象个词根，所以是1，而且带进去含义还不错；还考虑过是不是3。( D: y6 t$ b" f 但是都是错的，正确的只有4。( O4 Z4 R# Q- |+ d0 }  E! [ 啊！！！！ 抓狂了。。。 这个要是词汇就是不认识，词根词缀帮不上忙，怎么上下文理解啊

xqsissy 发表于 2010-9-22 07:29

首先，fast就根本不是个词根。
其次，这道题是为数不多的可以通过上下文理解的词汇题，The larger, less fastidious feeders, the zebras, move in first; the choosier, smaller wildebeests come later; 这里明显有个对比关系。你看看 larger对smaller，所以 less fastidious就对 choosier。所以 less fastdious和 choosier是相反的，把less去掉， fastidious就=choosier了。 choosy什么意思？来自choose，肯定和选择挑剔有关。选择挑剔就只有最后一个了。

反衬UID: 2328867

As her technological expertise grew more sophisticated, so did the other aspects of her dances. ■ Although she gave little thought to music in her earliest dances, she later used scores by Gluck, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, and Wagner, eventually graduating to Stravinsky, Fauré, Debussy, and Mussorgsky, composers who were then considered progressive. ■ She began to address more ambitious themes in her dances such as The Sea, in which her dancers invisibly agitated a huge expanse of silk, played upon by colored lights. ■ Always open to scientific and technological innovations, she befriended the scientists Marie and Pierre Curie upon their discovery of radium and created a Radium Dance, which simulated the phosphorescence of that element. ■ She both appeared in films—then in an early stage of development—and made them herself; the hero of her fairy-tale film Le Lys de la Vie (1919) was played by René Clair, later a leading French film director.

13. Look at the four squares [■] that indicate where the following sentence could be added to the passage.
For all her originality in dance, her interests expanded beyond it into newly emerging artistic media.
Where would the sentence best fit?
我选择是1，答案是4。 大家给点建议，我研究半天也没有出来。。。。

xqsissy 发表于 2010-9-22 09:12

关键还是找到上下文的线索。说白了就是概念的重复。你找一找这句话里面有什么概念是会在文章里面重复的，找到了再找先后关系就可以了。你先找找看。回头不行再说

反衬UID: 2328867

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 limi ...
dandan17 发表于 2010-9-22 10:40

转折就在 but except那里啊。

看选项看关键字就可以了。

xqsissyUID: 2812149

542# 反衬

谢谢老师，我明白了。

interest exand 就是指前面她用音乐，服装，还有镭等新元素；然后后面的电影就是她进入的新的media领域。

dandan17UID: 2812933

请教反衬老师！

这种选择正确位置的题时间短暂，1分钟内，怎么准确判断？！

Paragraph 6: ■Because they are always swimming, tunas simply have to open their mouths and water is forced in and over the ...
xqsissy 发表于 2010-9-22 06:43

我做的时候也选成第三个框框了。看看OG怎么说的
The sentence provided, "Consequently, tunas do not need to suck in water," is best inserted at square 2. The sentence provides an explanation for the muscle loss described in the sentence that follows square 2 and is a result of the fact described in the preceding sentence, which says that because the fish are always swimming, they only have to open their mouths to suck in water. Thus if the provided sentence is inserted at square 2, it provides a logical bridge between cause and effect. The sentence makes no logical sense anywhere else.

我的思考：精辟！如果放在第3个框导致的是在一个作用后面放因此什么什么。举个例子，因为某某从小在美国长大，所以不用另外学英语，因此省去了很多别的同学用来学英语的时间。
如果按照原来的理解：那就是因为某某从小在美国长大，因此省去了很多别的同学用来学英语的时间，所以不用另外学英语。是不是逻辑很混乱，读起来很怪？
所以这题得出的共性就是：现象è解释这个现象的原因è作用

dandan17UID: 2812933

继续问问题！ 不耻下问！！！！～～～～：P

Paragraph 3: Tunas, mackerels, and billfishes have made streamlining into an art form. Their bodies are sleek and compact. The body shapes of tunas, in fact ...
xqsissy 发表于 2010-9-22 06:50

你的理解：但是，老师，我现在做题，只给每道题不超过半分钟－1分钟的时间思考，所以，这样快速做题，就会容易看到上面有engineeringe,认为理所当然，下面有engine,肯定是正确的，还兴致勃勃的认为自己聪明，选的快，抓的准。可惜却反而错了。真正只需要看原句就能分析出来，看了上下文，反而会被弄混。


我的思考：这题我没想到engineering这个问题，我觉得吧，既然是考作者意图题，那么可以先看这段话主要在讲什么，就是在讲这个鱼有哪些哪些优势，所以作者引出飞机的例子并不是要突出飞机，重点还是在讲鱼，讲飞机的这种特性只是为了和鱼的这种特性做类比，方便读者理解。


所以得出的结论就是，不要纯粹分析句子的上下对应，特别是对于作者意图题来说，要揣测他真正的意图。

xqsissyUID: 2812149

546# dandan17

dandan,这句话说的太好！！！

就是在讲这个鱼有哪些哪些优势，所以作者引出飞机的例子并不是要突出飞机，重点还是在讲鱼，讲飞机的这种特性只是为了和鱼的这种特性做类比，

我明白了，这就是掌握了真正的出题点！

lavenderelaineUID: 2689477

问两个题
TPO1  undergroud water
Paragraph 2: The necessary space is there, however, in many forms. The commonest spaces are those among the particles—sand grains and tiny pebbles—of loose, unconsolidated sand and gravel. Beds of this material, out of sight beneath the soil, are common. They are found wherever fast rivers carrying loads of coarse sediment once flowed. For example, as the great ice sheets that covered North America during the last ice age steadily melted away, huge volumes of water flowed from them. The water was always laden with pebbles, gravel, and sand, known as glacial outwash, that was deposited as the flow slowed down.


4. According to paragraph 2, where is groundwater usually found?
○Inside pieces of sand and gravel
○On top of beds of rock
○In fast rivers that are flowing beneath the soil
○In spaces between pieces of sediment

请问为什么不选A？  文中明明说“The commonest spaces are those among the particles—sand grains and tiny pebbles—of loose, unconsolidated sand and gravel.”啊？
TPO1 the origins of theater
Paragraph 1: In seeking to describe the origins of theater, one must rely primarily on speculation, since there is little concrete evidence on which to draw. The most widely accepted theory, championed by anthropologists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, envisions theater as emerging out of myth and ritual. The process perceived by these anthropologists may be summarized briefly. During the early stages of its development, a society becomes aware of forces that appear to influence or control its food supply and well-being. Having little understanding of natural causes, it attributes both desirable and undesirable occurrences to supernatural or magical forces, and it searches for means to win the favor of these forces. Perceiving an apparent connection between certain actions performed by the group and the result it desires, the group repeats, refines and formalizes those actions into fixed ceremonies, or rituals.


According to paragraph 1, why did some societies develop and repeat ceremonial actions?

○To establish a positive connection between the members of the society
○To help society members better understand the forces controlling their food supply
○To distinguish their beliefs from those of other societies
○To increase the society’s prosperity
我选的是B 我好象两次都选的B。请问答案为什么是D谢谢

xqsissyUID: 2812149

问问题：tpo 17 阅读

The chief problem was technological: How were the Europeansto reach the East? Europe's maritime tradition had developed in thecontext of easily navigable seas—the Mediterranean, the Baltic, and.to a lesser extent, the North Sea between England and theContinent—not of vast oceans. New types of ships were needed,new methods of finding one's way, new techniques for financing sovast a scheme. The sheer scale of the investment it took to begincommercial expansion at sea reflects the immensity of the profitsthat such East-West trade could create. Spices were the mostsought-after commodities. Spices not only dramatically improved thetaste of the European diet but also were used to manufactureperfumes and certain medicines. But even high-priced commoditieslike spices had to be transported in large bulk in order to justify theexpense and trouble of sailing around the African continent all theway to India and China.

it can be inferred from paragraph 2 that spices from asia were desirable in europe in the middle ages because they:

1, were easily transported in large quantities
2. could not produced in european coutries
3. could be traded for products such as perfumes and medicins
4.were expected to increase in value over time

我选了4， 首先，我可以马上判断1，3错。 2我就很犹豫，因为2是常识，但是2又没有在文中提过，4却可以从文中推断出来。

我想问的是，如果2是正确的，那就说明了，读这个文章是很笨的事情，因为整个文章都是无用信息，只用常识就可以判断。

请问老师，是不是这样？

那以后我首先就看选项，然后就用大众常识判断，行不？

真要这样，我还省时间了。

swtshipUID: 2695136

Paragraph 2 How did this tremendous development take place, and why did it happen in the Teotihuacán Valley? Among the main factors are Teotihuacán’s geographic location on a natural trade route to the south and east of the Valley of Mexico, the obsidian resources in the Teotihuacán Valley itself, and the valley’s potential for extensive irrigation. The exact role of other factors is much more difficult to pinpoint―for instance, Teotihuacán’s religious significance as a shrine, the historical situation in and around the Valley of Mexico toward the end of the first millennium B.C., the ingenuity and foresightedness of Teotihuacán’s elite, and, finally, the impact of natural disasters, such as the volcanic eruptions of the late first millennium B.C.

5. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in paragraph 2 as a main factor in The development of Teotihuacán?
○The presence of obsidian in the Teotihuacán Valley
○The potential for extensive irrigation of Teotihuacán Valley lands

○A long period of volcanic inactivity in the Teotihuacán Valley

○Teotihuacán’s location on a natural trade route

我觉得应该选D ，段落开头就说了
但答案却为C  
不明白，
大家帮忙解释下啊！！！！

zhaohanUID: 2595904

TPO 17


Europe's Early Sea Trade with Asia

In the fourteenth century, a number of political developments cut Europe's overland trade routes to southern and eastern Asia, with which Europe had had important and highly profitable commercial ties since the twelfth century. This development, coming as it did when the bottom had fallen out of the European economy, provided an impetus to a long-held desire to secure direct relations with the East by establishing a sea trade. Widely reported, if somewhat distrusted, accounts by figures like the famous traveler from Venice. Marco Polo, of the willingness of people in China to trade with Europeans and of the immensity of the wealth to be gained by such contact made the idea irresistible Possibilities for trade seemed promising, but no hope existed for maintaining the traditional routes over land A new way had to be found.

◆ The chief problem was technological: How were the Europeans to reach the East? Europe's maritime tradition had developed in the context of easily navigable seas—the Mediterranean, the Baltic, and. to a lesser extent, the North Sea between England and the Continent—not of vast oceans. New types of ships were needed, new methods of finding one's way, new techniques for financing so vast a scheme. The sheer scale of the investment it took to begin commercial expansion at sea reflects the immensity of the profits that such East-West trade could create Spices were the most sought-after commodities. Spices not only dramatically improved the taste of the European diet but also were used to manufacture perfumes and certain medicines. But even high-priced commodities like spices had to be transported in large bulk in order to justify the expense and trouble of sailing around the African continent all the way to India and China.

The principal seagoing ship used throughout the Middle Ages was the galley, a long, low ship fitted with sails but driven primarily by oars. The largest galleys had as many as 50 oarsmen Since they had relatively shallow hulls, they were unstable when driven by sail or when on rough water: hence they were unsuitable for the voyage to the East. Even if they hugged the African coastline, they had little chance of surviving a crossing of the Indian Ocean Shortly after 1400. Shipbuilders began developing a new type of vessel properly designed to operate in rough, open water: the caravel. It had a wider and deeper hull than the galley and hence could carry more cargo: increased stability made it possible to add multiple masts and sails. In the largest caravels, two main masts held large square sails that provided the bulk of the thrust driving the ship forward, while a smaller forward mast held a triangular-shaped sail, called a lateen sail, which could be moved into a variety of positions to maneuver the ship.

The astrolabe had long been the primary instrument for navigation, having been introduced in the eleventh century. It operated by measuring the height of the Sun and the fixed stars: by calculating the angles created by these points, it determined the degree of latitude at which one stood (The problem of determining longitude, though, was not solved until the eighteenth century.) By the early thirteenth century. Western Europeans had also developed and put into use the magnetic compass, which helped when clouds obliterated both the Sun and the stars. Also beginning in the thirteenth century, there were new maps refined by precise calculations and the reports of sailors that made it possible to trace one's path with reasonable accuracy. Certain institutional and practical norms had become established as well. A maritime code known as the Consulate of the Sea. which originated in the western Mediterranean region in the fourteenth century, won acceptance by a majority of sea goers as the normative code for maritime conduct; it defined such matters as the authority of a ship's officers, protocols of command, pay structures, the rights of sailors, and the rules of engagement when ships met one another on the sea-lanes. Thus by about 1400 the key elements were in place to enable Europe to begin its seaward adventure.

6．It can be inferred from the paragraph 2 that spices from Asia were desirable in Europe in the Middle Ages because they:
1) could not be produces in Europe countries.
2) were expected to increase in value over time.
答案是第一个。。我选的第二个。。。求解释~~
14. choose the main idea:
1) For trade in Asian goods such as spices to be profitable, these items needed to be transported in large quantities by sea.
2) Europe wanted to import spices from Asia in order to improve the taste of food and to make perfumes and medicines.
答案是第一个。。我选的第二个。。o(╯□╰)o谢谢各位啦~

fermaighUID: 2236755

Tpo 5
MINERALS AND PLANTS 两题有疑问，望牛人解答下
This scenario(plan) begins with the planting of hyper accumulating species in the target area, such as an abandoned mine or an irrigation pond contaminated by runoff.
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.
 Before considering phytoremediation, hyper accumulating species of plants local to the target area must be identified.
 The investigation begins with an evaluation of toxic sites in the target area to determine the extent of contamination.
 The first step in phytoremediation is the planting of hyper accumulating plants in the area to be cleaned up.
 Mines and irrigation ponds can be kept from becoming contaminated by planting hyper accumulating species in targeted areas.
正确答案 C，我觉得B也没什么错的。为什么？


11. It can be inferred from Paragraph6 that compared with standard practices for remediation of contaminated soils, phytoremediation
 does not allow for the use of the removed minerals for industrial purposes.
 can be faster to implement
 is equally friendly to the environment
 is less suitable for soils that need to be used within a short period of time.
是要很长时间，所以不适合短期，那C为什么不能选？

fermaighUID: 2236755

同TPO 5第三篇THE CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION

5. According to Paragraph2, which of the following is NOT a question that paleontologists
asked about the Cambrian explosion?
 Why was the origin of life a simple step in Earth’s history?
 Why did it take so long for multicellular organisms to develop?
 Why did animal life evolve so rapidly?
 Why does the fossil record lack evidence of animal evolution during that time?
文中原句The origin of multicellular forms of life seems a relatively simple step compared to the origin of life itself.  生命起源复杂些，所以A是错的，但B为什么错？

fermaighUID: 2236755

TPO 4 Cave Art in Europe

1．The word "marked" in the passage is closest in meaning to  
○Considerable  
○Surprising  
○Limited  
○Adequate  
没明白，为什么选A不选B

tinalqcucUID: 2780943

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