Reading Comprehension
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文章：
| Line | In 1994, a team of scientists led by David McKay |
| began studying the meteorite ALH84001, which had | |
| been discovered in Antarctica in 1984. Two years | |
| later, the McKay team announced that ALH84001, | |
| (5) | which scientists generally agree originated on Mars, |
| contained compelling evidence that life once | |
| existed on Mars. This evidence includes the | |
| discovery of organic molecules in ALH84001, the | |
| first ever found in Martian rock. Organic | |
| (10) | molecules—complex, carbon-based compounds— |
| form the basis for terrestrial life. The organic | |
| molecules found in ALH84001 are polycyclic | |
| aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs. When microbes | |
| die, their organic material often decays into PAHs. | |
| (15) | Skepticism about the McKay team’s claim |
| remains, however. For example, ALH84001 has | |
| been on Earth for 13,000 years, suggesting to | |
| some scientists that its PAHs might have resulted | |
| from terrestrial contamination. However, McKay’s | |
| (20) | team has demonstrated that the concentration of |
| PAHs increases as one looks deeper into | |
| ALH84001, contrary to what one would expect from | |
| terrestrial contamination. The skeptics’ strongest | |
| argument, however, is that processes unrelated to | |
| (25) | organic life can easily produce all the evidence |
| found by McKay’s team, including PAHs. For | |
| example, star formation produces PAHs. Moreover, | |
| PAHs frequently appear in other meteorites, and no | |
| one attributes their presence to life processes. Yet | |
| (30) | McKay’s team notes that the particular combination |
| of PAHs in ALH84001 is more similar to the | |
| combinations produced by decaying organisms than | |
| to those originating from nonbiological processes. |
题目：
The passage asserts which of the following about the claim that ALH84001 originated on Mars?
选项:
A、It was initially proposed by the McKay team of scientists.
B、It is not a matter of widespread scientific dispute.
C、It has been questioned by some skeptics of the McKay team’s work.
D、It has been undermined by recent work on PAHs.
E、It is incompatible with the fact that ALH84001 has been on Earth for 13,000 years.
答案:
B
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