TPO閱讀 William Smith - 英檢

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: Paragraph 2: This was before the steam locomotive, and canal building was at
: its height. The companies building the canals to transport coal needed
: surveyors to help them find the coal deposits worth mining as well as to
: determine the best courses for the canals. This job gave Smith an opportunity
: to study the fresh rock outcrops created by the newly dug canal. He later
: worked on similar jobs across the length and breadth of England all the while
: studying the newly revealed strata and collecting all the fossils he could
: find．Smith used mail coaches to travel as much as 10000 miles per year．In
: 1815 he published the first modern geological map “A Map of the Strata of
: England and Wales with a Part of Scotland”, map so meticulously researched
: that it can still be used today．
: 4.Accordingto paragraph2，which of the following is true of the map published
: by William Smith?
: ○It indicates the locations of England's major canals
: ○It became most valuable when the steam locomotive made rail travel possible
: ○The data for the map were collected during Smith’s work on canals
: ○It is no longer regarded as a geological masterpiece
: 答案為C 我選A 請問錯在哪呢?
: 文中有提到mail coaches的事情 怎麼能斷定他的data全都在 work on canals時蒐集的?

地圖中的任何資料都是在他工作中得到
全文從沒直接提到選項A的答案！

: Paragraph 5: Not only could Smith identify rock strata by the fossils they
: contained, he could also see a pattern emerging：certain fossils always
: appear in more ancient sediments while others begin to be seen as the strata
: become more recent. By following the fossils, Smith was able to put all the
: strata of England's earth into relative temporal sequence. About the same
: time, Georges Cuvier made the same discovery while studying the rocks around
: Paris. Soon it was realized that this principle of faunal (animal) succession
: was valid not only in England or France but virtually everywhere. It was
: actually a principle of floral succession as well, because plants showed the
: same transformation through time as did fauna. Limestone may be found in the
: Cambrian or-300 million years later-in the Jurassic strata but a trilobite—
: the ubiquitous marine arthropod that had its birth in the Cambrian—will
: never be found in Jurassic strata, nor a dinosaur in the Cambrian.
: 11. Select the TWO answer choices that are true statements based upon the
: discussion of the principle of faunal succession in paragraph 5. To receive
: credit, you must select TWO answers.
: ○It was a principle that applied to fauna but not to flora．
: ○It was discovered independently by two different geologists，
: ○It describes how fossils are distributed in rock strata
: ○It explains why plants and animals undergo transformations through time．
: 答案為BC, 請問為什麼可以選C呢? 文章有提到how嗎?? 謝謝!!

Limestone may be found in the Cambrian or-300 million years later-in the
Jurassic strata but a trilobite— the ubiquitous marine arthropod that had
its birth in the Cambrian—will never be found in Jurassic strata, nor a
dinosaur in the Cambrian.

這三行就是在描述C

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