Reading Comprehension
试题详情
文章：
| Line | When asteroids collide, some collisions cause |
| an asteroid to spin faster; others slow it down. If | |
| asteroids are all monoliths—single rocks—undergoing | |
| random collisions, a graph of their rotation rates | |
| (5) | should show a bell-shaped distribution with statistical |
| “tails” of very fast and very slow rotators. If asteroids | |
| are rubble piles, however, the tail representing the | |
| very fast rotators would be missing, because any | |
| loose aggregate spinning faster than once every few | |
| (10) | hours (depending on the asteroid’s bulk density) |
| would fly apart. Researchers have discovered that | |
| all but five observed asteroids obey a strict limit on | |
| rate of rotation. The exceptions are all smaller than | |
| 200 meters in diameter, with an abrupt cutoff for | |
| (15) | asteroids larger than that. |
| The evident conclusion—that asteroids larger than | |
| 200 meters across are multicomponent structures or | |
| rubble piles—agrees with recent computer modeling | |
| of collisions, which also finds a transition at that | |
| (20) | diameter. A collision can blast a large asteroid to bits, |
| but after the collision those bits will usually move | |
| slower than their mutual escape velocity. Over several | |
| hours, gravity will reassemble all but the fastest | |
| pieces into a rubble pile. Because collisions among | |
| (25) | asteroids are relatively frequent, most large bodies |
| have already suffered this fate. Conversely, most | |
| small asteroids should be monolithic, because impact | |
| fragments easily escape their feeble gravity. |
题目：
The discovery of which of the following would call into question the conclusion mentioned in line 16?
选项:
A、An asteroid 100 meters in diameter rotating at a rate of once per week
B、An asteroid 150 meters in diameter rotating at a rate of 20 times per hour
C、An asteroid 250 meters in diameter rotating at a rate of once per week
D、An asteroid 500 meters in diameter rotating at a rate of once per hour
E、An asteroid 1,000 meters in diameter rotating at a rate of once every 24 hours
答案:
D
提问：
本题请王文静老师回答—我理解的原文的意思是：Rate of rotation有五个例外，他们的直径比200米小。另外由line16,直径大于200米的，是M或者rubble piles.结合第七行，rubble piles转一次用几小时。我读的大概就这么多。然后看选项，我就不会选了，我觉得ACDE都不符合原文。希望老师解答。
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