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For centuries, explorers have risked their lives venturing into the unknown for reasons that were to varying degrees economic an
For centuries, explorers have risked their lives venturing into the unknown for reasons that were to varying degrees economic an
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For centuries, explorers have risked their lives venturing into the unknown for reasons that were to varying degrees economic and nationalistic. Columbus went west to look for better trade routes to the Orient and to promote the greater glory of Spain. Lewis and Clark journeyed into the American wilderness to find out what the U.S. had acquired when it purchased Louisiana, and the Apollo astronauts rocketed to the moon in a dramatic show off technological muscle during the cold war.
Although their missions blended commercial and political-military imperatives, the explorers involved all accomplished some significant science simply by going where no scientists had gone before.
Today Mars looms (隐约出现) as humanity’s next great terra incognita (未探明之地). And with doubtful prospects for a short-term financial return, with the cold war a rapidly fading memory and amid a growing emphasis on international cooperation in large space ventures, it is clear that imperatives other than profits or nationalism will have to compel human beings to leave their tracks on the planet’s reddish surface. Could it be that science, which has long played a minor role in exploration, is at last destined to take a leading role? The question naturally invites a couple of others: are there experiments that only humans could do on Mars? Could those experiments provide insights profound enough to justify the expense of sending people across interplanetary space?
With Mars the scientific stakes are arguably higher than they have ever been. The issue of whether life ever existed on the planet, and whether it persists to this day, has been highlighted by mounting evidence that the Red Planet once had abundant stable, liquid water and by the continuing controversy over suggestions that bacterial fossils rode to Earth on a meteorite (陨石) from Mars. A more conclusive answer about life on Mars, past or present, would give researchers invaluable data about the range of conditions under which a planet can generate the complex chemistry that leads to life. If it could be established that life arose independently on Mars and Earth, the finding would provide the first concrete clues in one of the deepest mysteries in all of science: the prevalence of life in the universe.
The passage tells us that proof of life on Mars would
选项
A、make clear the complex chemistry in the development of life
B、confirm the suggestion that bacterial fossils traveled to Earth on a meteor
C、reveal the kind of conditions under which life originates
D、provide an explanation why life is common in the universe
答案
D
解析
本题为细节题。选择依据为文章最后—句话。文章中找不到A项的意思;B项的出题依据为第4段第2句话后半部分内容,但仔细阅读该句便可知B项内容与其不符;C项具有一定迷惑}生,其出题依据是倒数第2句话,该句谓语部分(包括宾语)与C项意思类似,但主语的含义与题干中宾语从句的主语(proof of live on Mars)含义不同。
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