[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