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Of all the problems facing modern astronomers, perhaps the most fascinating

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问题     Of all the problems facing modern astronomers, perhaps the most fascinating is: "Can intelligent life exist elsewhere?" Since the Earth is an unimportant planet moving round an unimportant star, it would be a pride on our part to suppose that we are the only intelligent beings in the universe. But to obtain proof is difficult.
    The main trouble is that our neighbor worlds, the bodies in the Solar system appear to be unsuitable for advanced life-forms. The Moon may be ruled out at once; it has hardly any atmosphere. Venus(金星) is little better; the surface temperature is extremely high and the atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide. Mars with a very thin atmosphere and a severe shortage of water, may well support simple plant life but there seems no hope of finding animals, while the attractive Martians(火星人) of the story-tellers have long since been given up.
    Of course this has not stopped the flow of bright ideas for communicating with the supposed people on Mars.  In the early nineteenth century the great mathematician Gauss suggested planting treepatterns in Siberia(西伯利亚), so that the Martians would see them and replay suitably. Following up this idea, the Austrian scientist Karl Littrow proposed digging very wide ditches in the Sahara, triangular in patterns, and then filling them with petrol or some substance so that, when lit, the ditches would present Martian observers with a "flaming triangle" which would show the existence here of intelligent minds. Even better were the plans of Charles Cross, a French writer of the 1870’s, who wanted to build a large mirror to reflect the sun’s rays and concentrate them on the surface of Mars, thereby making a vast burning-glass. By swinging the mirror around, Cross explained it would be practicable to write words in the Martian deserts simply by burning the sand. For many years he bombared(轰击) the French government with literature about this plan and was very disappointed when no official interest was shown. [br] Gauss wanted to establish contact with the Martians by ______.
选项 A、planting trees in triangular shape
B、filling wide ditches with oil
C、building a large mirror
D、making patterns with trees
答案 D
解析 文章第三段第二句:...Gauss suggested planting tree-patterns in Siberia，so that the Martians would see them and replay suitably.(高斯建议在西伯利亚种植树木组成图案，用以与火星人联系。)故选D)。但是高斯并未特别指出要把树木种成三角形，所以A)不正确；奥地利科学家Karl Littrow proposed digging very wide ditches in the Sahara，triangular in patterns，and then filling them with petrol or some sub stance so that，when lit the ditches would present．．．(建议在撒哈拉挖出很宽的壕沟呈现三角形图案，里面放上汽油等物品这样点着的时候，壕沟就能显现…)和法国作家Charles Cross wanted to build a large mirror to reflect the sun’s rays and concentrate them on the surface of Mars…(想要做一面大镜子反射太阳光，把光聚焦在火星表面…)，B)和C)分别是他们的观点，故不正确。
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