tailieunhanh - The official guide to the toefl ibt third edition part 25

Tham khảo tài liệu 'the official guide to the toefl ibt third edition part 25', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | TOEFL iBT Listening were getting better. So people went to work on finding objects that would be at that missing distance from the Sun and then in 1801 the object Ceres was discovered. And Ceres was in the right place the missing spot. Uh but it was way too faint to be a planet. It looked like a little star. Uh and because of its starlike appearance um it was called an asteroid. OK Aster is Greek for star as in astronomy. Um and so Ceres was the first and is the largest of what became many objects discovered at that same distance. Not just one thing but all the objects found at that distance form the asteroid belt. So the asteroid belt is the most famous success of this Bode s Law. That s how the asteroid belt was discovered. Answers and Explanations 1. O This is a Detail question. Although the entire passage is concerned with answering What is Bode s Law the professor specifically answers the question when he says . . . it s attempting a pattern in the spacing of the planets. . . . The best answer to this question is choice 4. 2. 0 This is a Gist-Purpose question. Gist questions are not usually answered very explicitly in the passage but in this case the professor addresses the purpose of the discussion twice. At one point he says I m going to talk about how the asteroid belt was discovered and later he states That s how the asteroid belt was discovered. The best answer to this question is choice 2. 3. O This is an Understanding Organization question. The professor first demonstrates the pattern of numbers before explaining Bode s Law and what the pattern means. The best answer to this question is choice 1. 4. O This is an Understanding the Function of What Is Said replay question. The pattern the professor describes is called Bode s Law. The professor is pointing out how Bode s Law differs from other scientific laws. The best answer to this question is choice 4. 5. O O This is a Detail question. Note that for this question there are two correct answers. The .