Since 1953, many experimental attempts to synthesize the chemical constituents of life under "primitive Earth conditions" have demonstrated that a variety of the complex molecules currently making up living organisms could have been present in the early ocean and atmosphere, with only one limitation: such molecules are synthesized far less readily when oxygen-containing compounds dominate the atmosphere. Therefore some scientists postulate that the Earth's earliest atmosphere, unlike that of today, was dominated by hydrogen, methane, and ammonia. From these studies, scientists have concluded that the surface of the primitive Earth was covered with oceans containing the molecules fundamental to life. Although, at present, scientists cannot explain how these relatively small molecules combined to produce larger, more complex molecules, some scientists have precipitously ventured hypotheses that attempt to explain the development, from larger molecules, of the earliest self-duplicating organisms.
2.It can be inferred from the passage that "some scien-
tists" assume which of the following concerning "
larger, more complex molecules"
(A) The earliest atmosphere was forward primarily
of these molecules.
(B) Chemical processes involving these molecules
proceeded much more slowly under primitive
Earth conditions.
(C) The presence of these molecules would necessarily
precede the existence of simple organisms.
(D) Experimental techniques will never be sufficiently
sophisticated to produce in the laboratory simple
organisms from these chemical constituents.
(E) Explanations could easily be developed to
explain how simple molecules combined to
form these more complex ones.
我好像明白了,题干是说some scientist关于larger more complex molecules假设了什么,既然之前的问题scientist还没有解决,这些some scientists就要去解决下一个更深层次的问题了,那么他们肯定是以为现有技术解决不了之前的问题了(也就是how these relatively small molecules combined to produced...)