首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Global warming could make humans shorter, warn scientists who claim to have found evidence that itcaused the world’s first horse
Global warming could make humans shorter, warn scientists who claim to have found evidence that itcaused the world’s first horse
admin
2015-09-13
78
问题
Global warming could make humans shorter, warn scientists who claim to have found evidence that itcaused the world’s first horses to【B1】______ nearly 50 million years ago. In fact, a team from theuniversities of Florida and Nebraska says it has found a【B2】______ between the Earth heating up and thesize of mammals—horses, in this case, the last time the world heated up. The scientists used【B3】______tofollow the evolution of horses from their earliest appearance 56 million years ago. As temperatures went up,their size【B4】______, and vice versa: at one point they were as small as a house cat, said Dr. Jonathan Bloch,curator(管理者)of the Florida Museum of Natural History,【B5】______by the Daily Mail as saying. Thescientists say that the【B6】______warming could have the same effect on mammals—and could even makehumans smaller. "Horses【B7】______small, about the size of a small dog like a【B8】______schnauzer(髯狗). What’s surprising is that after they first appeared, they then became even smaller and then dramaticallyincreased in size, and that exactly【B9】______ the global warming event, followed by cooling. "It had beenknown that mammals were small during that time and that it was warm, but we hadn’t understood that temperature specifically was【B10】______the evolution of body size," Dr. Bloch said in the Science journal.
【B5】
选项
答案
quoted
解析
空格后为被动语态的标志by,由此可知,空格处应填入一个动词的过去分词。结合录音可知,答案为quoted,意为“引用”。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/Wpl7777K
0
大学英语四级
相关试题推荐
Tosomeit’sadreamjob—eatingdeliciousmealsforfreeandthenwritingaboutthem.Butforsomefoodcritics,theireyesar
Ifyouareayoungcollegestudent,mostofyourconcernsaboutyourhealthandhappinessinlifeareprobably【B1】______onthe
Accomplishedteachersofworldlanguagesarekeenlyawarethatyoungpeoplelearninvariousways.Theyusetheirknowledgeofc
A、Becausetheyadvocatemorecigarettetaxes.B、Becausetheydonotdoanythingforthesmokers.C、Becausetheyarguewhatthey
A、Theyweretotallyunwillingtoquit.B、Theyweretemptedtosmokebypeoplearound.C、Theyweresoaddictedtosmokingforrel
A、Waituntiltheweathergetsbetter.B、Gotovisittheparktomorrow.C、Walkaroundthecityrightnow.D、Enjoythesnowscene
A、Totakeatouraroundtheworld.B、Toseesomenewsceneries.C、Tolearnmorenewthings.D、Togetagoodjobwithouthardwor
Thirtyyearsago,anyoneblaminglonelinessforphysicalillnesswouldhavebeenlaughedat.Butasscientistsstudieddifferent
Thirtyyearsago,anyoneblaminglonelinessforphysicalillnesswouldhavebeenlaughedat.Butasscientistsstudieddifferent
Thirtyyearsago,anyoneblaminglonelinessforphysicalillnesswouldhavebeenlaughedat.Butasscientistsstudieddifferent
随机试题
患者,女,26岁,停经50天,因骑车不慎摔倒,阴道少量出血,伴右下腹撕裂样疼痛,恶心呕吐,肛门坠胀。查尿HCG(+),后穹窿穿刺抽出不凝血。首选哪项治疗方案
下列各项,属痰湿内阻头晕临床表现的是()
钢结构构件防腐涂料涂装的常用施工方法有()。
对通过中国基金业协会资质考核并获得基金销售资格的基金销售人员,基金销售机构不需要为其统一办理()。[2015年9月真题]
下列关于企业为取得合同发生的增量成本的表述中,不正确的是()。
与产品的保障性有关的因素是()。[2007年真题]
继美国的GPS、俄罗斯的CLONASS之后,我国也有了自己导航卫星“北斗导航卫星定位系统”,这是世界上第三个成熟的卫星导航系统。我国第一颗“北斗二号”导航卫星是在哪一年发射上天的?()
设随机变量X和Y相互独立,都在(一a,a)上服从均匀分布,求Z=XY的概率密度。
在项目风险识别中使用信息收集技术,依据系统的程序,专家之间采用匿名发表意见的方式,不发生横向联系,只与调查人员发生关系,通过多轮次调查专家对问卷所提问题的看法,经过反复征询、归纳、修改,最后汇总成专家们都认可的、基本一致的看法作为预测的结果。此种风险识别的
Thescientistshaveabsolutefreedomastowhatresearchtheythinkitbestto_________.
最新回复
(
0
)