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【Paragraph 2】Yet this most fundamental standard of historical periodization concealsa host of paradoxes. Nearly every movie theater, however modest, had a piano ororgan to provide musical accompaniment to silent pictures. In many instances,spectators in the era before recorded sound experienced elaborate auralpresentations alongside movies' visual images, from the Japanese benshi(narrators) crafting multivoiced dialogue narratives to original musicalcompositions performed by symphony-size orchestras in Europe and the UnitedStates. In Berlin, for the premiere performance outside the Soviet Union of TheBattleship Potemkin, film director Sergei Eisenstein worked with Austriancomposer Edmund Meisel (1874-1930) on a musical score matching sound to image;the Berlin screenings with live music helped to bring the film its wideinternational fame.
3. Paragraph 2 suggests which of the following about Eisenstein’s film The Battleship Potemkirf?
A.The film was not accompanied by sound before its Berlin screening.
B.The film was unpopular in the Soviet Union before it was screened in Berlin.
C.Eisenstein’s film was the first instance of collaboration between a director and a composer.
D.Eisenstein believed that the musical score in a film was as important as dialogue.
解析：
题干关键词：Eisenstein’s film The Battleship Potemkirf，大写字母很容易找
文中定位点：In Berlin, for the premiereperformance outside the Soviet Union of The Battleship Potemkin, film directorSergei Eisenstein worked with Austrian composer Edmund Meisel (1874-1930) on amusical score matching sound to image; the Berlin screenings with live musichelped to bring the film its wide international fame.
利用反义推理：在柏林首次公演→在柏林之前没有演过
所以选A
对我们来说，掌握了时间点前后不一致，可以使用反义推理这个方法，能让我们更快的得到答案：
The areas covered by this material were so vast that the ice that deposited it must have been a continental glacier larger than Greenland orAntarctica. Eventually, Agassiz and others convinced geologists and the general public that a great continental glaciation had extended the polar ice caps far into regions that now enjoy temperate climates. For the first time, peoplebegan to talk about ice ages. It was also apparent that the glaciation occurred in the relatively recent past because the drift was soft, like freshly deposited sediment. We now know the age of the glaciation accurately from radiometric dating of the carbon-14 in logs buried in the drift. The drift ofthe last glaciation was deposited during one of the most recent epochs of geologic time, the Pleistocene, which lasted from 1.8 million to 10,000 yearsago. Along the east coast of the United States, the southernmost advance ofthis ice is recorded by the enormous sand and drift deposits of the terminal moraines that form Long Island and Cape Cod.
4.It can be inferred from paragraph 2 that Agassiz and other geologistsof his time were not able to determine
A.which geographic regions had beencovered with ice sheets in the last ice age
B.the exact dates at which drifts hadbeen deposited during the last ice age
C.the exact composition of the driftslaid during the last ice age
D.how far south along the east coastof the United States the ice had advanced during the last ice age
解析：
题干关键词：Agassiz and other geologists of histimewere not able to determine
文中定位点：We now know the age of theglaciation accurately from radiometric dating of the carbon-14 in logs buriedin the drift.
利用反义推理：Wenow know ……→Agassiz and other geologists of histimewere not able to determine
所以选B
It was not until the Cambrian period, beginning about 600 million yearsago, that a great proliferation of macroscopic species occurred on Earth andproduced a fossil record that allows us to track the rise and fall ofbiodiversity. Since the Cambrian period, biodiversity has generally risen, butthere have been some notable exceptions. Biodiversity collapsed dramaticallyduring at least five periods because of mass extinctions around the globe. Thefive major mass extinctions receive most of the attention, but they are onlyone end of a spectrum of extinction events. Collectively, more species wentextinct during smaller events that were less dramatic but more frequent. Thebest known of the five major extinction events, the one that saw the demise ofthe dinosaurs, is the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction.
5. Paragraph 1 supports which of the following statements about life onEarth before the Cambrian period?
A.Biodiversity levels were steady, asindicated by the fossil record.
B.Levels of biodiversity could not betracked.
C.The most dramatic extinction episodeoccurred.