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答案與解析:
1.D。語意推測題。根據(jù)文章第一段“the remains of bacteria...they offer evidence that life here got off to a very early start.”可以知道D正確。
2.C。主旨大意題。第二段的第一句話就是本段的中心句,故C正確。
3.A。詞義推測題。根據(jù)劃線詞上一句的邏輯關(guān)系可以知道A正確。
4.B。觀點(diǎn)態(tài)度題。文章四五兩段是作者舉例說明新發(fā)現(xiàn)的可靠性,故B正確。
5.B。段意理解題。文章的最后一段最后一句“could have big implications”表明結(jié)論的不確定性,故B正確。
長難句分析:
1.On Wednesday,researchers reported that these may be the oldest fossils ever discovered,the remains of bacteria thriving on Earth not long,geologically speaking,after the very birth of the planet.周三,研究人員宣布,這些可能是人類所發(fā)現(xiàn)的最為古老的化石,是地球誕生后不久——從地質(zhì)學(xué)角度來說——生活在地球上的細(xì)菌的殘骸。
這是個(gè)復(fù)合句。句子雖長但只有一個(gè)that引導(dǎo)的賓語從句,其中ever discovered作后置定語,thriving和其前面的名詞構(gòu)成獨(dú)立主格結(jié)構(gòu)作狀語。如:
It being Sunday,we went to church.因?yàn)槭切瞧谔?,我們?nèi)プ隽硕Y拜。
Miss Smith entered the classroom,book in hand.史密斯小姐走進(jìn)了課室,手里拿著一本書。
2.But additional specimens from other sites came to light over the past two decades,and many of them have withstood scrutiny.但來自其他地點(diǎn)的其他標(biāo)本在過去20年間不斷出現(xiàn),其中很多都經(jīng)受住了審視。
這是個(gè)并列句。并列連詞and前后都是個(gè)簡單句,前句謂語came to light“為人所知”很常見。??嫉膌ight短語有:cast/shed/throw light on sth.“使……容易理解”,in the light of sth.“考慮到,鑒于”,set light to sth.“點(diǎn)燃,引火”。如:
Recent research has thrown new light on the causes of the disease.最近的研究可以使人進(jìn)一步了解導(dǎo)致這種疾病的原因。
3.In the new study,published in the journal Nature,Mattew S.Dodd,Dominic Papineau and their colleagues at University College London studied rocks that were either slightly older or much older than those containing the Greenland fossils.在成果已被《自然》期刊發(fā)表的新研究中,馬修·S·多德、多米尼克·帕皮諾及其倫敦大學(xué)學(xué)院的同事對一些巖石做了研究,比起蘊(yùn)含格陵蘭化石的那些巖石,它們的年代或是稍稍久遠(yuǎn)一點(diǎn),或是久遠(yuǎn)得多。
這是個(gè)復(fù)合句。句中只有一個(gè)that引導(dǎo)的定語從句。兩個(gè)分詞published和containing都作定語修飾前面的名詞或代詞。如:
Tom,wearing beautiful clothes,followed me down the hill.穿著漂亮衣服的湯姆跟著我下了山。
In autumn,fallen leaves can be seen everywhere.在秋天,落葉隨處可見。endprint