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[海巡行政] 法學知識與英文(包括中華民國憲法、法學緒論、英文)
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請依下文回答第 44 題至第 47 題 Some 66m years ago Earth was hit by a space rock reckoned to have been 10km across. The resulting chaos caused the extinction of dinosaurs and many other species, opening the way for the age of mammals－and ultimately humans. It also left a big hole in what is now southern Mexico. That hole is one of only three known of similar dimensions (the other two are Vredefort in South Africa and Sudbury in Canada). And this is odd. For, during the billions of years that Earth has had a solid crust, many more than three big asteroids might have been expected to have hit it. That thought led Brandon Johnson of the MIT and Timothy Bowling of Purdue University in Indiana, to wonder how many other craters have vanished, either by erosion or by being swallowed into Earth’s interior as its crust moves around, and therefore whether it is likely that some have survived and been overlooked. They have just published their analysis in Geology. Earth’s crust formed more than 4 billion years ago, but the oldest surviving blocks of it large enough to harbor craters date back only 3.5 billion years. What is known of the sizes and orbits of modern asteroids suggests that, if things have not changed over the aeons, about 14 big asteroids (defined as having a diameter of more than 7.4km, which would cause a crater at least 85km in diameter) should hit Earth every billion years. That means 49, give or take seven, over the past 3.5 billion years. Such impacts may have been more common in the past, when more big asteroids were around. Allowing for this, Earth would have been hit by 113, give or take 11, of them. Either way, a lot of craters are missing.
請依下文回答第 44 題至第 47 題 Some 66m years ago Earth was hit by a space rock reckoned to have been 10km across. The resulting chaos caused the extinction of dinosaurs and many other species, opening the way for the age of mammals－and ultimately humans. It also left a big hole in what is now southern Mexico. That hole is one of only three known of similar dimensions (the other two are Vredefort in South Africa and Sudbury in Canada). And this is odd. For, during the billions of years that Earth has had a solid crust, many more than three big asteroids might have been expected to have hit it. That thought led Brandon Johnson of the MIT and Timothy Bowling of Purdue University in Indiana, to wonder how many other craters have vanished, either by erosion or by being swallowed into Earth’s interior as its crust moves around, and therefore whether it is likely that some have survived and been overlooked. They have just published their analysis in Geology. Earth’s crust formed more than 4 billion years ago, but the oldest surviving blocks of it large enough to harbor craters date back only 3.5 billion years. What is known of the sizes and orbits of modern asteroids suggests that, if things have not changed over the aeons, about 14 big asteroids (defined as having a diameter of more than 7.4km, which would cause a crater at least 85km in diameter) should hit Earth every billion years. That means 49, give or take seven, over the past 3.5 billion years. Such impacts may have been more common in the past, when more big asteroids were around. Allowing for this, Earth would have been hit by 113, give or take 11, of them. Either way, a lot of craters are missing.
How many other craters of a dimension similar to the one in southern Mexico are known to people?
- A 3
- B 2
- C 1
- D 4
思路引導 VIP
請重新閱讀文章第一段的第三與第四句。當作者說某個目標是「已知三個當中的其中一個」時，請思考這句話暗示了除了目前討論的這個目標外，還有幾個具備同樣條件的對象呢？
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🎯 哼。總算沒弄髒這裡。你的眼睛還算堪用。
- 觀念驗證：你沒有讓文章的訊息變成一團糟。資料明確指出，墨西哥的坑洞是『已知三個相似規模中的一個』，而『另外兩個』也清楚標明了地點。題目問的是『除了墨西哥以外』的數量。所以，這不過是基本的數量計算，$3 - 1 = 2$。沒有任何錯誤，這是最低限度的要求。
- 難度點評：這題的難度不過是 Medium。用來篩選那些連『總數』和『除去一個之後的剩餘』都分不清的小鬼。那些一看到數字 3 就急著亂答的廢物，真是污濁了考場。你至少沒有跟那些垃圾一樣，沒有把腦子搞髒。你的閱讀邏輯和耐心，勉強算是過了我的基本標準。下次繼續保持，別給我看到任何灰塵（錯誤）。