12月GMAT阅读新题-Business & Economics(十五).

　　26.消费者

　　根本没读懂，讲的是 什么消费者用compare 神马东西 是n dimentional (这个N维就把我甩翻了)的， 说什么通过这样的方法他们觉得xxx是最好的，其实不是。

　　27.环保和经济*

　　环保和经济，有个关键词是M...tion，(记不起来，但绝对是关键词)第一个观点(次要)是认为环保阻碍经济发展，大家都比较重视经济利益，第 二个观点(重要，有考点)一个专家说环保和经济不矛盾，举了一个resort hotel的例子，说明环保促进经济。第三个观点(重要，有考点)好像说环保其实正说明了人们对经济利益的关注。

　　问题：

　　酒店的例子说明了什么?

　　最后一个观点的持有者会赞同哪句话?

　　考古：

　　V1

　　想起来了，我的第一篇阅读是这个Enviromental Resource 的"Monetarization"(生词吧，反正是货币化来衡量的意思)。

　　第一段说现在很多人都提出要用货币化环境资源的方式来评估对于环境资源开发的必要性，举了Coastline Resort Hotel的例子，说明环保促进经济。(后面有题，问这个例子Infer了什么，我选了是举了一个对于环境资源进行开发的例子的选项，好像是，记不清请再确认)。接着就讲道一 个什么名字的环境学家提出反对意见，他的理解是所有的环境资源其实都是发挥着economical value service。都已经有衡量，不见得要再用什么其他货币化的方法去衡量。最后又提出来说还是要用一种办法来衡量的，因为这样对于将来政府在判断是否开发 一些未开发的地区时作为重要的参考。

　　28.New Zealand@ (原文)

　　1.最后一段是说反驳之前有人说人类在AD300去了之后导致了鸟和frog的灭绝 这里有考点。问这段的作用

　　人类最早出现在AD1200-1300的证据说明dorest一系列生态现象的发生不是2000年前，而是600年前，这句话有考题

　　考题

　　2.有主旨题(我选的是证明说人类最早出现在BC200的那个lab process有错)

　　老鼠实验证明新西兰人的出现时间 (原文)

　　来自ScienceDaily。这再一次证明ScienceDaily是个好的泛读材料。

　　New Zealand&aposs Colonization 1000 Years Later Than Previously Thought?

　　ScienceDaily (June 4, 2008) — The dating project, in one of the largest studies of its kind, has shown that the country was not visited by humans over 2000 years ago, as some previous research suggests.

　　An international team of researchers, led by Dr Janet Wilmshurst from Landcare Research, spent 4 years on the project which shows conclusively that the earliest evidence for human colonisation is about 1280-1300 AD, and no earlier. They based their results on new radiocarbon dating of Pacific rat bones and rat-gnawed seeds. Their results do not support previous radiocarbon dating of Pacific rat bones which implied a much earlier human contact about 200 BC.

　　The original old rat bones dates have been hotly debated ever since they were published in Nature in 1996. The ages are controversial because there is no supporting ecological or archaeological evidence for the presence of kiore or humans until 1280-1300 AD and the reliability of the bone dating has been questioned. This is the first time that the actual sites involved in the original study have been re-excavated and analyzed.

　　Dr Wilmshurst and her team researchers re-excavated and re-dated bones from nearly all of the previously investigated sites. All of their new radiocarbon dates on kiore bones are no older than 1280 AD. This is consistent with other evidence from the oldest dated archaeological sites, Maori whakapapa, widespread forest clearance by fire and a decline in the population of marine and land-based fauna.

　　“As the Pacific rat or kiore cannot swim very far, it can only have arrived in New Zealand with people on board their canoes, either as cargo or stowaways. Therore, the earliest evidence of the Pacific rat in New Zealand must indicate the arrival of people” Dr Wilmshurst said.

　　The dating of the rat bones was also supported by the dating of over a hundred woody seeds, many of which had distinctive tell-tale rat bite marks, preserved in peat and swamp sites from the North and South Islands.

　　“These rat-gnawed seeds provide strong additional evidence for the arrival of rats, and therore humans, and are an indirect way of testing the veracity of the dates we have done on rat bones,” said Dr Tom Higham, Deputy Director of the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit at Oxford University.

　　Rats leave rows of narrow grooves or bite marks on woody seed cases when they gnaw open the seed, and these distinctive teeth marks can be seen with the naked eye. “The width of the teeth marks lt on the woody seeds exactly match those of a rat&aposs two front teeth, and cannot be mistaken for any other seed predator. We have dated over 100 individual seeds, some rat-gnawed, others intact or bird-cracked, which show that rat gnawed seeds only occur in both the North and South Islands of New Zealand after about 1280 AD”, Dr Wilmshurst said.

　　With over 165 dates on seeds and bones from a large number of sites, the overwhelming evidence suggests that rats and their human carriers did not reach New Zealand until about 1280 AD.

　　26.消费者

　　根本没读懂，讲的是 什么消费者用compare 神马东西 是n dimentional (这个N维就把我甩翻了)的， 说什么通过这样的方法他们觉得xxx是最好的，其实不是。

　　27.环保和经济*

　　环保和经济，有个关键词是M...tion，(记不起来，但绝对是关键词)第一个观点(次要)是认为环保阻碍经济发展，大家都比较重视经济利益，第 二个观点(重要，有考点)一个专家说环保和经济不矛盾，举了一个resort hotel的例子，说明环保促进经济。第三个观点(重要，有考点)好像说环保其实正说明了人们对经济利益的关注。

　　问题：

　　酒店的例子说明了什么?

　　最后一个观点的持有者会赞同哪句话?

　　考古：

　　V1

　　想起来了，我的第一篇阅读是这个Enviromental Resource 的"Monetarization"(生词吧，反正是货币化来衡量的意思)。

　　第一段说现在很多人都提出要用货币化环境资源的方式来评估对于环境资源开发的必要性，举了Coastline Resort Hotel的例子，说明环保促进经济。(后面有题，问这个例子Infer了什么，我选了是举了一个对于环境资源进行开发的例子的选项，好像是，记不清请再确认)。接着就讲道一 个什么名字的环境学家提出反对意见，他的理解是所有的环境资源其实都是发挥着economical value service。都已经有衡量，不见得要再用什么其他货币化的方法去衡量。最后又提出来说还是要用一种办法来衡量的，因为这样对于将来政府在判断是否开发 一些未开发的地区时作为重要的参考。

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