About one million years ago, the Ice Age began. The Ice Age was a long period of time in which four great glaciers pushed southw

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问题     About one million years ago, the Ice Age began. The Ice Age was a long period of time in which four great glaciers pushed southward to cover almost all the upper half of North America, and then melted away. Each glacier was a thick sheet of ice and snow that spread out from a centre near what is now Hudson Bay in Canada. The winters were long, and the cool summers were too short to melt much of the ice and snow. The ever-growing sheet built up to a thickness of two miles at its centre.
    As all glaciers do, these great glaciers slid. They pushed down giant trees in their paths and scraped the earth bare of soil. Many animals moved farther south to escape. Others stayed and were destroyed.
    When winters of little snow came, the summer sun cut into the edges of the ice sheets. As the glaciers melted, rocks, soil and other things that had mixed with the ice and snow were left. New hills, lakes and rivers were formed.
    The last of the great glaciers began its melting about 11,000 years ago. Its melting formed the Great Lakes, These lakes are today little changed from their early sizes and shapes. The largest of the North American river systems was also influenced by the glaciers. This is the Mississippi-Missouri Ohio system. These rivers were miles wide at first. Through the years they settled into their present channels.
From the information in this passage we know that ______.

选项 A、glaciers are destructive
B、all glaciers in the world move southward
C、the Mississippi-Missouri-Ohio system is larger than it was before the Ice Age
D、the Great Lakes are now smaller than they were before the Ice Age

答案A

解析 本题属推理分析题。由文章第二段可知:巨大冰川冲倒了大片森林,刮走了土壤,动物也被迫逃走等,因而它们有破坏性。
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