马上考试啦。问一道让我极为困惑的题。

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The nearly circular orbits of planets in our solar system led scientists to expect that planets around other stars would also reside in circular orbits. However, most known extrasolar planets reside in highly elongated, not circular, orbits. Why? The best clue comes from comets in our solar system. Comets formed in circular orbits but were gravitationally flung into their present-day elliptical orbits when they ventured too close to planets. Astronomers suspect that pairs of planets also engage in this slingshot activity, leaving them in disturbed, elliptical orbits. If two planets form in close orbits, one will be scattered inward(toward its star), the other outward. They will likely then travel close enough to neighboring planets to disturb their orbits also.

11 consider each of the choices separately and select all that apply

The passage suggests that two planets formed in close orbits that engaged in ‘slingshot activity’ would be likely to

A deflect away from each other

B change the shape of each other’s orbit

C affect the orbits of any neighboring planets



这道题答案选ABC,但是我怎么看C都不对啊，文章最后一段只讲了可能改变临近的轨道，单选项里面是any neighboring planets 啊。。这个any好像不太对啊，做阅读的要求是一切依照原文，但是这个any我怎么就觉得文章里面没有说到啊。

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They will likely then travel close enough to neighboring planets to disturb their orbits also.
最后一句话不就是谈到影响neighboring planets吗，然后关于any我觉得题干提到would be likely to这样似乎any就不会那么绝对了
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inspire2014 发表于 2012-10-16 18:11
They will likely then travel close enough to neighboring planets to disturb their orbits also.
最后 ...

但是总感觉这种极端性词汇的选项都不怎么对啊，如果考虑题干里面的would likely to 那倒是可以勉强选上。。

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pielang 发表于 2012-10-16 20:22
但是总感觉这种极端性词汇的选项都不怎么对啊，如果考虑题干里面的would likely to 那倒是可以勉强选上。 ...

我明白了，应该是这样的。文中的意思是可能会去travel的足够近来影响其他行星的轨道，这个可能会的意思是可能会去，它修饰的是会不会去，而不是会不会影响。文中要表达的应该是只要距离近就可以影响了，所以C对。likely只是修饰它会不会去，这种情况下C的any就没错了，因为any对应的不是likely to，不知道你懂了没？

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laoma19901990 发表于 2012-10-16 20:57
我明白了，应该是这样的。文中的意思是可能会去travel的足够近来影响其他行星的轨道，这个可能会的意思是 ...

恩。只能这么想了