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The collapse of the Earth’s magnetic field-which guards the planet and guides many of its creatures-appears to have started abou
The collapse of the Earth’s magnetic field-which guards the planet and guides many of its creatures-appears to have started abou
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2012-05-18
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The collapse of the Earth’s magnetic field-which guards the planet and guides many of its creatures-appears to have started about 150 years ago, the New York Times reported last week.
The field’s strength has decreased by 10 or 15 percent so far and this has increased the debate over whether it signals a reversal of the planet’s lines of magnetic force.
During a reversal,the main field weakens,almost vanishes,and reappears with opposite polarity (极). The transition would take thousands of years. Once completed,compass needles that had pointed north would point south. Areversal could cause problems for both man and animals. Birds,fish,animals that rely on the magnetic field for navigation would find migration confusing. But experts said the effects would not be a big disaster,despite claims of doom and vague evidence of links between past field reversals and species extinctions.
Although a total transition may be hundreds or thousands of years away,the rapid decline in magnetic strength is already affecting satellites. Last month,the European Space Agency approved the world’s largest effort at tracking the field’s shifts. A group of how satellites called Swarm are to monitor the collapsing field with far greater precision. "We want to get some idea of how this would evolve in the near future,just like people trying to predict the weather,"said Gauthier Hulot ,a French geophyslcist working on the satellite plan. "I’m personally quite convinced we shbutd be able to work out the first predictions by the end of the mission."
No matter what the new findings,the public has no reason to panic, Even if a transition is coming on its way, it might take 2,000 years to mature. The last one took place 780,000 years ago,when early humans were learning how to make stone tools. Deep inside the Earth flow hot currents of melted iron. This mechanical energy creates electromagnetism. This process is known as the geophysical generator. In a car’s generator,the same principle turns mechanical energy into electricity.
No one knows precisely why the field periodically reverses. But scientists say the responsibility probably lies with changes in the with changes in the disorderly flows of melted iron,which they see as similar to the gases that make up the clouds of Jupiter.
The author says "...the public has no reason to panic " because __.
选项
A、the transition is still thousands of years from now
B、the transition can be precisely predicted by scientists
C、the process of the transition will take a very long time to finish
D、the new transition will come 780,000 years later
答案
C
解析
本题考查考生推断问题的能力,根据文中内容“No matter what the new findings,the public has noreason to panic,Even if a transition is coming on its way,it might take 2,000 years to mature.”不论新的发现是什么,公众都不必感到恐慌。就算正在发生转变,也要2000年才能实现。我们很容易推断出C符合题意。
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