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Where the Galapagos Islands lie today, there was once an unbroken expanse of
Where the Galapagos Islands lie today, there was once an unbroken expanse of
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Where the Galapagos Islands lie today, there was once an unbroken expanse of Pacific. Then the sea began to seethe and simmer, the earth’s crust was pierced, and matter gushed forth continuously. Lava and scoriae (loose, cinderlike lava) piled up until one day spewing volcanoes raised peaks above the brawling sea.
Many thousands of years passed before life could settle upon the cooled land. Then wind and waves brought the first hardy seed of primitive plants. After these came others, then insects, lizards , and birds. The chance that any animal would survive the trip from the South American continent more than six hundred miles away was slight; only a few hardy species came through alive. This is why there are many gaps in the animal life of the islands.
Those that did reach the out-of-the-way islands developed over the ages into a number of quite peculiar forms. Because conditions in the Galapagos differed from those in their original homes, the animals had to change or perish. Only in the Galapagos are there seaweed-eating marine lizards, giant tortoises, and flightless cormorants. In fact, most of the species found in the Galapagos Islands are endemics: they exist only in the archipelago. [br] The birth of the archipelago is described in order to______.
选项
A、show what is unique
B、explain why all life had to come from somewhere else
C、point out the location of the islands
D、explain volcanic activity
答案
B
解析
本题是一道推断题。本文重点讲的是加拉帕戈斯群岛上动物的独特性。之所以在文中第一段交代该群岛的由来,就是要在后面说明岛上生物的来源及特殊性的原因。由以上可以得知,选项B符合文章的内容。
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