句子改写题(有答案版)

句子改写题

1. The West had plenty of attractions: the alluvial river bottoms, the fecund soils of the rolling forest lands, the black loams of the prairies were tempting to New England farmers working their rocky, sterile land and to southeastern farmers plagued with soil depletion and erosion.

Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence in the passage? Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.

A) Because the West had more rivers and forests than the East, its soil was more productive.

B) The fertile soils of the West drew farmers from regions with barren soils.

C) Farmers living in western areas of the United States were more affected by soil erosion than farmers living in eastern areas.

D) The soil in western areas of the United States was richer than soil in eastern areas.

2 Many complex factors led to the adoption of the new economies, not only at Abu Hureyra, but at many other locations such as Ain Ghazal, also in Syria, where goat toe bones showing the telltale marks of abrasion caused by foot tethering (binding) testify to early herding of domestic stock.

Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence in the passage? Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.

A）In many areas besides Abu Hureyra, complex factors led to new economies including the herding of domestic stock.

B) In Ain Ghazal and Syria, domestic stock was more important than it was at Abu Hureyra

C) Once early methods of herding animals improved, new economies were adopted.

D) Many complex theories attempt to explain the early domestication of animals.

3.The empty shell of a snail or clam may be left behind, and if it is sufficiently durable and resistant to dissolution, it may remain basically unchanged for a long period of time.

Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence in the passage? Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.

A) When snail or clam shells are left behind, they must be empty in order to remain durable and resist dissolution.

B) Although snail and clam shells are durable and resist dissolving, over time they slowly begin to change.

C) Although the soft parts of snails or clams dissolve quickly, their hard shells resist dissolution for a long time.

D) Empty snail or clam shells that are strong enough not to dissolve may stay in their original state for a long time.

4. Geothermal energy is in a sense not renewable, because in most cases the heat would be drawn out of a reservoir much more rapidly than it would be replaced by the very slow geological processes by which heat flows through solid rock into a heat reservoir.

Which of the following sentences below best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence in the passage? Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.

A) Heat flows through solid rock very slowly, so it takes a very long time for geological processes to produce a reservoir of geothermal energy.

B) Geothermal energy is not renewable because heat flows very slowly through solid rock into or out of a heat reservoir.

C) The heat quickly removed from a heat reservoir is replaced so slowly by geological processes that geothermal energy is no, practically speaking, renewable. D) In most cases, heat travels into a heat reservoir so slowly that it is a much quicker process to remove the heat from a reservoir than to replace it.

5. The temperature increased dramatically in a short period of time (years rather than centuries) allowing for a growth of the hunting-gathering population due to the abundance of resources.

Which of the following sentences below best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence in the passage? Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.

A) The resources needed by the growing hunting and gathering population increased rapidly once temperature rose.

B) Dramatic temperature increases and the simultaneous growth of the hunting and gathering population led to the need for more resources.

C) Higher temperatures led to the existence of increased resources, thus enabling the hunting and gathering population to grow.

D)The dramatic temperature increase occurred during the few years when abundant resources allowed the hunting and gathering population to grow.

6. Numerous insects occupy the marsh, feeding on living or dead cordgrass tissue, and redwing blackbirds, sparrows, rodents, rabbits, and deer feed directly on the cordgrass.

Which of the following sentences below best expresses the essential information inthe highlighted sentence in the passage? Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.

A) Insects feed only on dead cordgrass, while most other marsh inhabitants feed on live cordgrass.

B) The marsh is a good habitat for insects, but a relatively poor one for birds and animals.

C) Although cordgrass provides food for birds and animals, it gives insects both food and a place to live.

D) Cordgrass provides food for numerous insects, birds, and other animals.

7. Because the medium was so prolific, in the sense that it was possible to produce a multitude of images very cheaply, it was soon treated as the poor relation of the fine art, rather than its destined successor.

Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence in the passage? Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.

A) Photography did not replace other fine arts because people felt the image looked cheap in relation to the other arts.

B) Photography was not considered a true art because people could use it to create many images cheaply.

C) Photography was so cheap and readily available that it could be purchased by people who were too poor to purchase fine art.

D) Photography not only spread quickly but also was a cheap art form and so became the successor of fine arts rather than its poor relation.

8. When broken open, Allende stones are revealed to contain an assortment of small, distinctive objects, spherical or irregular in shape and embedded in a dark gray matrix (binding material), which were once constituents of the solar nebula – the interstellar cloud of gas and dust out of which our solar system was formed.

Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence in the passage? Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.

A) Allende meteorites were formed when constituents of the interstellar cloud of gas and dust got trapped inside small, roughly spherical objects and these objects became bound together in a dark gray matrix.

B) Inside Allende meteorites is a dark gray matrix that binds together small, spherical or irregular objects formed from the interstellar could of gas and dust out of which the solar system was made.

C) By breaking open Allende meteorites, scientists were able to find out what the solar nebular was made of.

D) Allende meteorites were filled with material formed almost entirely from interstellar gas and dust.

9. Importing the grain, which would have been expensive and time consuming for the Dutch to have produced themselves, kept the price of grain low and thus stimulated individual demand for other foodstuffs and consumer goods.

Which of the following sentences below best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence in the passage? Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.

A) Buying imported grain led to the Dutch demanding that other foodstuffs and consumer goods be imported.

B) Because the Dutch were able to import inexpensive grain, they had money available to create a demand for other food products and consumer goods.

C) Keeping the price of grain low was a primary goal of the Dutch at a time when they could not produce enough grain to provide for all their needs.

D) The demand for other foodstuffs and consumer goods forced the Dutch to import grain and other products at a time when maintaining low prices was especially important.

10.The frequency with which certain simple motifs appear in these oldest sites has led rock-art researchers to adopt a descriptive term –the Panaramitee style –a label which takes its name from the extensive rock pavements at Panaramitee North in desert South Australia, which are covered with motifs pecked into the surfaces. Which of the following sentences below best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence in the passage? Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.

A) The oldest rock art sites have simpler motifs than the best known sites of Panaramitee North.

B) Because motifs primarily associated with the Panaramitee region are common in the oldest sites, the term Panaramitee style has become the general term for rock art of this type.

C) Because the Panaramitee style is so common in the older sites, researchers have described it most extensively.

D) The motifs carved in the rocky surface of the Panaramitee region make up the oldest form of rock art discovered in Australia.

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