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※ 引述《laidon (賴董)》之銘言: : The fossil record shows at least five mass extinctions in which many families : of marine organisms died out. The rates of extinction happening today are as : great as the rates during these mass extinctions. Many scientists have : therefore concluded that a sixth great mass extinction is currently in : progress. : 2. According to paragraph 2, scientists base their belief that a mass : extinction is going on at present on which of the following? : (A)The speed with which mass extinctions are happening today is similar to the : speed of past extinctions. : ○Mass extinctions occur with regularity and it is time for another one. : 答案是A,但不知為什麼C是錯?? 這是一個很好的例子 各位戰友可能以為自己讀的不夠快 開始練習速度 但是有時讀快了 好像正確率卻下降了? 因為速度不對 還有不正確的跳讀 ---------------------------------------------- 一般自然組的同學容易誤選C 或因為你讀到後面的 出現了一個 週期性的時間 American paleontologists David Raup and John Sepkoski, who have studied extinction rates in a number of fossil groups, suggest that episodes of increased extinction have recurred periodically, approximately every 26 million years since the mid-Cretaceous period. 但是你可能沒有注意到 本題有限定 According to paragraph 2, scientists base their belief that 他根本沒有問你後面的段落 所以提醒各位戰友 有些人可能習慣先看完大意 這是可以的 但是對應這種細節的文章 一定要看清楚答案的搜尋範圍 ________________________________________________ 再來就是一個習慣 當你有問題的時候查察字典和百科吧 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event 其實這篇文章第一題就有線索 Paragraph 1 supports which of the following statements about mass extinctions? They take place over a period of 70 million years. 和 They occur every 250 million years. 都是錯的對不對 所以第一段到第二段 都沒有再談週期性 ______________________________________________ wiki 的那張圖你大約可以看出25 million years 的週期 還有big five 相對較大的五次 這個wiki的文章是很好的練習 但是有必要說明一下 wiki這篇文章真正的結構是 定義: An extinction event (also known as a mass extinction or biotic crisis) is a widespread and rapid decrease in the amount of life on earth. 這是重點 大滅絕不是看物種消失的速度而已 精確定義: It occurs when the rate of extinction increases with respect to the rate of speciation. 要考慮新種產生的速度 但是我們並無法像定義一樣的量測地球上所有的物種 因為 大多是微生物Because the majority of diversity and biomass on Earth is microbial, and thus difficult to measure 所以我們測的是easily observed, biologically complex component of the biosphere rather than the total diversity and abundance of life. 而且最常用的就是海洋生物的化石 Marine fossils are mostly used to measure extinction rates because of their superior fossil record and stratigraphic range compared to land organisms. 這就是為何第二段第一句說 The fossil record shows at least five mass extinctions in which many families of marine organisms died out. 請注意1. 這是最少有五次 2.這是由海洋生物的化石來看 當人類有了文字紀錄 物種滅絕研究不是看化石 The rates of extinction happening today are as great as the rates during these mass extinctions. 這句話正確的意思是 目前觀察到物種滅絕的速度 (並非海洋生物 而是人類有紀錄的生物) 滅絕的速度和過去用海洋生物化石顯示的滅絕速度相近 ________________________________________________________________________ 速解: 第二段只有三句 ETS哪一句出題? as great as 比較句 看對象rates 問 scientists base their belief that 定位應該是 Many scientists have therefore concluded that 的上一句 也就是therefore 之前出現的原因 ________________________________________________________________________ 當我寫到第二題 我已經了解這個作者的思路 和wiki的那篇一樣 是從大範圍 修正 限制 在討論的寫法 所意這樣的文章光是看每段的第一句 你往往沒有看到重點 但是反過來說 你只要知道重點 現在大意題就秒殺了 給你第一句 There have been "many attempts" to explain the causes of mass extinctions. 有未說明的名詞 下一句填什麼? 解釋有那些attempts A. Asteroid impacts, evolutionary developments, and changes in Earth' s climate and in the positions of the continents [ have all been proposed as possible causes of mass extinctions]. 看到這裡你就知道了 文章中到處都是 have therefore concluded There are several hypotheses suggest that has given rise to such hypotheses Of the various hypotheses attempting to account for 接下來要寫甚麼? 本文中表現作者態度的句子就是 one that has attracted the most attention in recent years is the asteroid-impact hypothesis 這個attracted the most attention 就是說接下來要深入討論得 而且你看 不就是排在A選項最前面嗎? B 選項 could all be attributed to the same cause 有未說明的抽象字 第三段 先保留 先分析一下CDE 都有出現as a result of/ caused/ cause F 沒有解釋asteroid-impact hypothesis 出局 哪個是對的? C. much of the iridium originally present on Earth was thrown into the atmosphere 明明就是天體撞擊 這裡卻說是地表的ir D. The unusual distribution of iridium on Earth and the presence of craters and heat-shocked quartz are central to the theory that an asteroid impact caused the late Cretaceous event. 有證據(包含六七兩段) 有解釋 E. 危險單字 irreversible changes in Earth' s atmosphere. 如果irreversible 現在還有生物嗎? _______________________________________________ 本文重點大多在 後方 第一個問題 What could cause such high rates of extinction? There are several hypotheses 有一個觀察 suggest that episodes of increased extinction have recurred periodically, 給一個解釋 one that has attracted the most attention in recent years is the asteroid-impact hypothesis 提供證據 This iridium anomaly offers strong support for the Alvarez hypothesis even though no asteroid itself has ever been recovered. 因為even though 所以怕你不信 補充最後一段 另一個證據 沒有隕石 但是有可能是隕石坑的遺跡 A location called Chicxulub, along the Yucatan coast, has been suggested as the primary impact site 速讀要踩對點 -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 156.111.131.169 ※ 編輯: snark 來自: 156.111.131.169 (05/04 20:51)
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