[Critical Reasoning]
试题详情
题目:
Which of the following, if true, most helps to explain the decline in the population of the fish species?
Archaeologist: There were several porcelain-production centers in 18th-century Britain, among them Bristol, Plymouth, and New Hall. Each center developed a unique recipe for its porcelain that might include flint glass, soapstone, bone ash, clay, quartz, and so on. We will therefore be able to determine, on the basis of compositional analysis, where the next cup we recover from this archaeological site was made.
Indicate two different statements as follows: one statement identifies an assumption required by the archaeologist's argument and the other identifies a possible fact that, if true, would, provide significant logical support for the required assumption.
| Line | While the most abundant and dominant species |
| within a particular ecosystem is often crucial in | |
| perpetuating the ecosystem, a keystone species, | |
| here defined as one whose effects are much larger | |
| (5) | than would be predicted from its abundance, can |
| also play a vital role. But because complex species | |
| interactions may be involved, identifying a keystone | |
| species by removing the species and observing | |
| changes in the ecosystem is problematic. It might | |
| (10) | seem that certain traits would clearly define a species |
| as a keystone species; for example, | |
| Pisaster ochraceus is often a keystone predator | |
| because it consumes and suppresses mussel | |
| populations, which in the absence of this starfish | |
| (15) | can be a dominant species. But such predation on a |
| dominant or potentially dominant species occurs in | |
| systems that do as well as in systems that do not | |
| have species that play keystone roles. Moreover, | |
| whereas P. ochraceus occupies an unambiguous | |
| (20) | keystone role on wave-exposed rocky headlands, |
| in more wave-sheltered habitats the impact of | |
| P. ochraceus predation is weak or nonexistent, | |
| and at certain sites sand burial is responsible for | |
| eliminating mussels. Keystone status appears to | |
| (25) | depend on context, whether of particular |
| geography or of such factors as community | |
| diversity (for example, a reduction in species | |
| diversity may thrust more of the remaining species | |
| into keystone roles) and length of species | |
| (30) | interaction (since newly arrived species in particular |
| may dramatically affect ecosystems). |
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