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For years, the leading theory for what caused the Younger Dryas (a dramatic reversal,

about 12,900 years ago, in a global warming trend) was a release of water from Glacial Lake

Agassiz. The theory posited that this meltwater flooded into the North Atlantic, lowering the

salinity and intensity of surface waters enough to prevent them from sinking. Ocean currents

were changed in such a way that northward transport of heat in the ocean diminished, and the

North Atlantic regions plunged back into near-glacial conditions. However, evidence has

emerged that the Younger Dryas began long before freshwater flooded the North Atlantic.

Additionally, the temperature changes included by a shutdown in the North Atlantic heat

conveyor system are too small to explain the Younger Dryas.

文章解析：

有一个理论讲主要

A

湖放出来的水导致

YD

现象

(

温度降

)

。展开湖水出来后进入

NA

，降低表

面水的盐度和强度，然后表面水 下沉不了，洋流这么改变后，向北传热就不行了，然后

NA

地区

进入接近冰川的

condition(YD).

但是证据表明

YD

出现得要比湖水放出来要早

(

因此

YD

不可能由放

水带来

)

而且向北传热停止带来的温度 变化太小了，无法带来

YD.

1. The author of the passage implies which of the following about the release of water from

glacial Lake Agassiz?

D

A. The notion that the release occurred has been challenged by more recent findings.

B. The release probably occurred much earlier than scientists have generally assumed.

C. The release would not have been sufficient to cause any temperature change in the

North Atlantic.

D. The timing of the release is such that it probably did not trigger the onset of the Younger

Dryas.

E. The release was probably unrelated to the global warming trend that was taking place.

答案：选

D.

解析：问下面哪个是作者暗示的和放水相关的

.D

说放水时机是这样的因此不可能带来

YD

的

开始，完美符合选文中转折后面放水

YD

之后的描述。

A

选项质疑放水这件事的发生 时原文没提

及的。

B

说放水比科学家所 普遍假设的要早，如果把科学家普遍假设和

leading theory

放在一个

队伍的话，他们之前认为放水带来

YD

，那他们肯定认为放水要早咯，而实际

YD

要更早，那实际

放水时间肯定比科学家假设的要晚。

C

选项错在

any,

太绝对了，没说放水一点温度 变化也不能带

来。

E

选项文章没说放水 和全球变暖的关系。

2. The passage is primarily concerned with

A

A. presenting evidence that undermines an explanation

B. explaining the nature of a climatological phenomenon

C. questioning the timing of a particular event

D. discussing a new explanation for a phenomenon

E. suggesting revisions to a popular theory

答案：

A

解析：

这是一道主旨题。

读完文章抓住 主干，

文章作者核心目的就是引用事实去质疑

leading

都不是文章核心目的，

而且还有细节性 错误，

比如文章没有给出任何解释去解释现象，

而且没有质疑任 何事件的时机。

E

选项要注意

revi sion

这个词，这个选项要对，文章必须给出修

正过得观点， 在此文中即是什么带来了

YD.

然而并没有。

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A critical consensus has emerged that Mary McCarthy will be remembered primarily as an

essayist rather than as a novelist. But despite her formidable gifts as a polemical and discursive

writer, and for all her reputation as an intellectual who sacrificed feeling to intelligence, what

powers McCarthy’s best essays are her

fictional rather than strictly intellectual gifts. She makes

her points by telling stories or by way of vivid description, arresting images and subtle

characterization. And for all her exacting sense of fact, McCarthy’s greatest contribution was to