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Scattered around the globe are more than 100 small regions of isolated volcanic activity known to geologists as hot spots. Unlik
Scattered around the globe are more than 100 small regions of isolated volcanic activity known to geologists as hot spots. Unlik
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2010-02-22
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问题
Scattered around the globe are more than 100 small regions of isolated volcanic activity known to geologists as hot spots. Unlike most of the world’s volcanoes, they are not always found at the boundaries of the great drifting plates that make up the earth’s surface; on the contrary, many of them lie deep in the interior of a plate. Most of the hot spots move only slowly, and in some cases the movement of the plates past them has left trails of dead volcanoes. The hot spots and their volcanic trails are milestones that mark the passage of the plates.
That the plates are moving is not beyond dispute. Africa and South America, for example, are moving away from earth other as new material is injected into the sea floor between them. The complementary coastlines and certain geological features that seem to span the ocean are reminders of where the two continents were once joined. The relative motion of the plates carrying these continents has been constructed in detail, but the motion of one plate with respect to another cannot readily be translated into motion with respect to the earth’s interior. It is not possible to determine whether both continents are moving in opposite directions or whether one continent is stationary and the other is drifting away from it. Hot spots, anchored in the deeper layers of the earth, provide the measuring instruments needed to resolve the question. From an analysis of the hot spot population it appears that the African plate is stationary and that it has not moved during the past 30 million years.
The significance of hot spots is not confined to their role as a frame of reference. It now appears that they also have an important influence on the geophysical processes that propel the plates across the globe. When a continental plate comes to rest over a hot spot, the material rising from deeper layer creates a broad dome. As the dome grows, it develops seed fissures(cracks); in at least a few cases the continent may break entirely along some of these fissures, so that the hot spot initiates the formation of a new ocean. Thus just as earlier theories have explained the mobility of the continents, so hot spots may explain their mutability(inconstancy).
选项
A、the motion of the plates corresponds to that of the earth’s interior ’
B、the geological theory about drifting plates has been proved to be true
C、the hot spots and the plates move slowly in opposite directions
D、the movement of hot spots proves the continents are moving apart
答案
B
解析
这是一道事实辨析题。根据第二段段首句:对于板块漂移这一理论现已无人质疑,及随后列举的有关非洲及南美洲板块的实例,不难判断答案选项是正确的。选项"板块的运动与地球内部运动相一致"与本段第四句:"不能把一个板块与另一个板块之间的运动简单地解释为板块与地球内部之间的运动"意思相悖,选项"热点运动证明大陆是向不同方向漂移的"与第二段最后一句所陈述的事实不符。剩余选项在文中无据可依。
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考研英语一
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