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Biologists generally agree that birds and dinosaurs are somehow related to one another. The agreement ends there. Hypotheses regarding dinosaurian and avian evolution are unusually diverse—and often at odds with one another. Confusion consequently reigns over a broad spectrum of unanswered questions dealing with avian origins and the biology of dinosaurs and early birds. This confusion has been exacerbated by a paucity of serious attempts to synthesize and evaluate available data on the details of avian and dinosaurian evolution. Too often, the job of summarizing current knowledge of these subjects has fallen to well-meaning but naïve lay authors or reporters. Consequently, both the public and the scientific community have often been misled by widespread dissemination of sensational but weakly founded hypotheses.

The passage suggests that which of the following could help remedy the problem described in the highlight sentence

1. An article written by a biologist for the general public summarizing current theories about avian and dinosaurian evolution
2. A close examination of available data on avian and dinosaurian evolution
3. A new hypothesis regarding the connection between avian and dinosaurian evolution

In the context in which it appears, “sensational” most nearly means 

1. dramatic
2. false
3. excellent
4. eminent
5. horrifying

文章結構：現看完第一句，總結就是birds ＝ dinosaurs，然後往下看有個Hypotheses，這次出現跟第一句的generally agree的態度是不一樣的，所以可以往birds 不是 dinosaurs看，然後最後獲得確認的是at odds with one another這組字，表示確實不一樣，有矛盾。因此再往下看，沒有再看到任何轉折字眼了，往後兩句的Confusion我認為是指對於at odds with one another所做的解釋，然後看到最後一句來一個Consequently最總結，因為中間沒有再出現轉折詞的關係，所以整個文章的邏輯是birds 不是 dinosaurs

第一題：

三選一通常都有很大的一個特徵就是，答案對應回原文中，會發現往往對應的點是在文章句子出現『並列』的情況，就是有個and, another之類的邏輯詞彙。highlight sentence的句子要如何做才能不會產生問題，這剛好就是把文章的描述『取反』即可，他說這個困惑加劇的原因是第一：a paucity of serious attempts to synthesize，中間and做並列，第二：evaluate available data on the details of avian and dinosaurian evolution.這兩個原因使得困惑加劇，那最簡單的解決方式就是不要有這兩的因素啊，所以取反找答案，選到（Ａ）（Ｂ），跟剛剛預判只會有兩個答案吻合，synthesize＝(A)general public summarizing眾人的意見總結不就是合成嗎。details＝(B)close examination，如果不放心我們往(C）看，看到new就不選了，這題選了表示推理過度，我們同意在文章第三句的Hypotheses are unusually diverse，這句話的假設完畢之後才會出現confuse，但是你如果要銷除這樣的困惑最應該的方式就是他媽的就別提假設了，若鳥兒不是恐龍，這件事情怪怪的，他的逆否命題應該是，若事情不要怪怪的，就不要有鳥兒不是恐龍的假設，這樣才能是一個邏輯鍊，P→Q = ~Q → ~P但是選項(C)提出一個跟原本假設立場的新假設，這就等於說，鳥兒不是恐龍，這件事情怪怪的，反推回去，鳥兒是恐龍的話事情就不會怪怪了，這邏輯太跳tone了，一般來說邏輯戀上應該要先說出是的鳥兒不是恐龍這件事情不對，然後接著才能說出那既然不對，是不對在哪，所以可以知道(C)跳一層邏輯。

第二題：字面上翻譯是引起轟動的，比較接近的就是劇烈強烈的意思。選（Ａ）

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