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托福阅读修辞目的题:Fossil Preservation

2015-08-13 16:12:22来源:网络

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  托福阅读修辞目的题:Fossil Preservation

  【Paragraph 2】The term "fossil" often implies petrifaction, literally a transformation into stone. After the death of an organism, the soft tissue is ordinarily consumed by scavengers and bacteria. The empty shell of a snail or clam may be left behind, and if it is sufficiently durable and resistant to dissolution, it may remain basically unchanged for a long period of time. Indeed, unaltered shells of marine invertebrates are known from deposits over 100 million years old. In manymarine creatures, however, the skeleton is composed of a mineral variety of calcium carbonate called aragonite.

  Although aragonite has the same composition as the more familiar mineral known as calcite, it has a different crystal form, is relatively unstable, and in time changes to the more stable calcite.(Fossil Preservation)

  Why does the author mention "aragonite" in the passage?

  ○ To emphasize that some fossils remain unaltered for millions of years

  ○ To contrast fossil formation in organisms with soft tissue and in organisms with hard shells

  ○ To explain that some marine organisms must undergo chemical changes in order to fossilize

  ○ To explain why fossil shells are more likely to survive than are fossil skeletons

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