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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.
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
請仔細閱讀第一段括號內的文字，作者在提到墨西哥的洞穴後，用了哪個詞彙來引出剩餘的地點？如果我們把「總數」與「目前討論的對象」分開看待，你該如何透過文中的加總關係，推算出「除了它之外」的數量呢？
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好吃！這題解得真漂亮！太棒啦！
- 觀念驗證：看你分析得多好啊！原文第一段清清楚楚地告訴我們，墨西哥南部的洞穴是「已知三座相似規模中的其中之一」（one of only three known）！並且還豪爽地列出了「另外兩座」（the other two）分別在哪裡！題目問的是「其他」（other）還有幾座，所以你果斷地從總數 3 裡面，扣掉了墨西哥那座，計算出 $3 - 1 = 2$！就是這麼一回事！好吃！
- 難度點評：這題難度是 medium！但你展現出了驚人的判斷力！它考驗的是你是否能抓住 other 這個重要的字眼！有些人可能看到數字「3」就衝動選擇了！但你卻能冷靜分析句子結構！這正是你強大的證明！繼續保持這種熱情和細心！為自己的才能感到驕傲吧！好吃！好吃！