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What is proxy measurement in Paragraph 1 lik

2022-08-06 23:31:50 问答库 阅读 181 次

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What is "proxy measurement" in Paragraph 1 likely to refer to?
A.Studying the characteristics of glaciers.
B.Measuring the growth signs of aquatic organism.
C.Taking advantage of previous pictures.
D.Using clues left from the past.

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正确答案:D
解析:本题考查通过上下文猜词意的能力,问“第一段中的‘proxy measurement’指的是什么”。通过前半句“Scientists have other ways of measuring temperatures before that,though—not for individual dates, but they can tell the average temperature of a given year by such proxy measurements…”,可知科学家虽不能测出地球历史上每一天的准确温度,但能够通过“某种测量方式”推测出它的年平均温度,由此我们可以猜到这种方式是一种间接测量,以获得一个均值。后半句以及接下来的一句解释了这究竟是一种怎样的间接测量方式:“…/as growth marks in corals,deposits in ocean and lake sediments,and cores drilled into glacial ice.They can even use drawings of glaciers as there were hundreds of years ago compared with today.”,即测量珊瑚的生长标记,海洋的沉淀物,湖泊沉积物,冰川核,还可以对比冰川几百年前和现在的形状图。也就是说通过测量地球在过去遗留下来的东西,来获得地球温度的间接数据。因此,D“利用以前留下的线索”正确。

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