[討論]og passage48-socience

[Grace]

Passage 48
(The following is based on material written in 1996.)
The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete(耗盡) the Ozone Layer, signed in 1987 by more than 150 nations, has attained its short-term goals (1996年達成): it(指Protocol) has decreased the rate of increase in amounts of most ozone-depleting chemicals reaching the atmosphere and has even(甚至) reduced the atmospheric levels of some of them (指chemicals). The projection (計劃) that the ozone layer will substantially recover from ozone depletion by 2050 (2050年之前) is based on the assumption that the protocol’s regulations will be strictly followed. Yet (轉折) there is considerable evidence of violations (指protocol’s regulations), particularly in the form of the release of ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFC’s), which are commonly used in the refrigeration, heating, and air conditioning industries. These violation reflect industry attitudes; for example, in
the United States, 48 percents of respondents in a recent survey of subscribers to Air Conditioning,
Heating, and Refrigeration News, and industry trade journal, said that they did not believe that
CFC’s damage the ozone layer. Moreover, some in the industry apparently do not want to pay for
CFC substitutes, which can run five times the cost of CFC’s. Consequently, a black market in
imported illicit(不法的) CFC’s has grown. Estimates of the contraband (違禁品) CFC trade range from 10,000 to 22,000 tons a year, with most of the CFC’s originating in India and China, whose agreements under the Protocol still allow them to produce CFC’s. In fact, the United States Customs Service reports that CFC-12 is a contraband problem second only to illicit drugs.
總結: The Montreal Protocol的short-term goals (by 2050)所遇到的困難--舉例 CFC

考點預測
*作者態度用詞 Still=>must not allow but alow
Even=>stress on the effect of protocol
轉折 Yet=>violation ex:CFC
因果關係 Consequently, a black market in
imported illicit(不法的) CFC’s has grown.



283. According to the passage, which of the following best describes most ozone-depleting
chemicals in 1996 as compared to those in 1987?
(A) The levels of such chemcials in the atmosphere had decreased. (only some of them)
(B) The number of such chemcials that reached the atmosphere had declined.
(C) The amounts of such chemcials released had increased but the amounts that reached the
atmosphere had decreased.
(D) The rate of increase in amounts of such chemicals reaching the atmosphere had
decreased.
(E) The rate at which such chemicals were being reduced in the atmoshphere had slowed.


284. The author of the passage compares the smuggling of CFC’s to the illicit drug trade most
likely for which of the following reasons?
(A) To qualify a previous claim (irrelevant to drugs)
(B) To emphasize the extent (=range) of a problem
(C) To provide an explanation for an earlier assertion
(D) To suggest that the illicit CFC trade, likely the illicit drug trade, will continue to increase
(E) To suggest that the consequences of a relatively little-knows problem are as serious as
those of a well-known one

285. The passage suggests which of the following about the illicit trade in CFC’s?
(A) It would cease if manufacturers in India and China stopped producing CFC’s.
(B) Most people who participate in such trade do not believe that CFC’s deplete the ozone
layer.
(C) It will probably surpass illicit drugs as the largest contraband problem faced by the United
States Custom Services.
(D) It is fostered by people who do not want to pay the price of CFC substitutes.
(E) It has grown primarily because of the expansion of the refrigenration, heating, and
air-conditioning industries in foreign countries.

考點:
* 注意量詞 (most, some) 283
* 作者比喻(目的) 284
*因果 285(consequently……)

[agk99]

請問大家

284.C選項是過度解釋，同意，但B選項好在哪裡，也很難解釋
285.要好好解題，光是回去定位都不容易，更何況是比較哪一個好，不知大家是怎麼解的

[Grace]

[/quote]請問大家

284.C選項是過度解釋，同意，但B選項好在哪裡，也很難解釋
285.要好好解題，光是回去定位都不容易，更何況是比較哪一個好，不知大家是怎麼解的

284. 作者提及illicit drug 主要用意在於突顯CFC問題的重要性及嚴重性.將CFC跟illicit drug 做比較, 如文中寫到: In fact, the United States Customs Service reports that CFC-12 is a contraband problem second only to illicit drugs.

[bear]

285.要好好解題，光是回去定位都不容易，更何況是比較哪一個好，不知大家是怎麼解的

285.我是這樣解的.... 不過因為這篇文章算短,所以看完腦袋還滿清晰的^^
(A) cease 錯, 過度推理, 文章只說大部分的CFC是從印度和中國來的
ps.自己不要太聰明,當傻子好,....
(B) 對象錯誤, 不是參加黑市交易的人不相信CFC會造成破壞, 因為那是訪問某雜誌的訂戶的結果
(C)也是過度推理
(D)關鍵字在文中的consequently ,這個字有因果的味道! 所以要看前一句話! Bingo!
(E) expansion 錯, not mention!

一些關鍵字在看文章的時候,就應該要先有警覺了,
至於其他選項 , 因為比較細節...一般就是考你記憶力,要不然就是要抓選項中的關鍵字回文章定位....

不過說實在的,我作第一遍的時候也是錯 :-$

[James]

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[Andrea1127]

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