TPO13 Biological Clocks - 英檢

對於第10題的(A)

有問題想請問各位

Like almost all daily cycles of animals deprived of environmental cues, those
measured for the horseshoe crabs in these conditions were not exactly 24
hours. Such a rhythm whose period is approximately—but not exactly—a day
is called circadian. For different individual horseshoe crabs, the circadian
period ranged from 22.2 to 25.5 hours.

如同所有被剝奪環境線索的日循環的動物，在這些條件下這些測量對horseshoe crabs
來說是沒有很精確的有24小時。一個週期大約是一天但不精確的頻率被稱做是circadian


從這段來看(A)To illustrate that an animal's internal clock seldom has a

24-hour cycle。

題目根本沒有提到其他動物的internal clock，是有說到horseshoe crabs沒有很精確的

有24小時和horseshoe crabs像所有被剝奪環境線索的日循環的動物，但這不能說明(A)所

說的動物的internal clock seldom has a 24-hour cycle

不然就是我誤會題目的意思了

麻煩各位幫忙解答了

謝謝!!

※ 引述《chingting (有回憶的人最幸福)》之銘言：
: Like almost all daily cycles of animals deprived of environmental cues, those
: measured for the horseshoe crabs in these conditions were not exactly 24
: hours. Such a rhythm whose period is approximately—but not exactly—a day is
: called circadian. For different individual horseshoe crabs, the circadian
: period ranged from 22.2 to 25.5 hours.
: 10. In paragraph 2, why does the author mention that the period for different
: horseshoe crabs ranges from 22.2 to 25.5 hours?
: A) To illustrate that an animal's internal clock seldom has a 24-hour cycle
: B) To argue that different horseshoe crabs will shift from daytime to
: nighttime vision at different times
: C) To illustrate the approximate range of the circadian rhythm of all animals
: D) To support the idea that external cues are the only factors affecting an
: animal's periodic behavior
: 答案是A!我選C
: 想請教AC兩個要怎麼區分呢?是根據上面哪一個句子?
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: Animals need natural periodic signals like sunrise to maintain a cycle whose
: period is precisely 24 hours. ■Such an external cue not only coordinates an
: animal's daily rhythms with particular features of the local solar day but
: also—because 【it 】normally does so day after day-seems to keep the
: internal clock's period close to that of Earth's rotation. ■Yet despite this
: synchronization of the period of the internal cycle, the animal's timer
: itself continues to have its own genetically built-in period close to, but
: different from, 24 hours.
: 13. Look at the four squares [■] that indicate where the following sentence
: could be added to the passage.
: Because the internal signals that regulate waking and going to sleep tend to
: align themselves with these external cues, the external clock appears to
: dominate the internal clock.
: 我一直在上面這兩格猶豫!答案是給第二格!!可是我最後還是選第一格!
: 每次都選錯的答案XD可以請大家幫忙一下有什麼根據嗎?
: 謝謝!!
: 非常謝謝大家!!!

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