U.S. astronauts will return to the moon in 2024. They will go to Mars in the 2030s. What do we know about Mars?
(Pick the best answer.)
Mars is a more hostile world, because it experienced catastrophic climate-__.
a. changed
b. change
c. crisis
日本語訳
Twitterより。記事では、米国の宇宙飛行士が2024年に月へ戻り、2030年代に火星へ行くという当時の計画に触れています。火星は壊滅的な気候の変化を経験したため、より過酷な世界です。climate-__ の空欄に changed / change / crisis のどれが入るでしょう。
The answer is b, change, because 'climate' is a hyphenated
(It has a hyphen: - ) noun acting as a modifier, an adjective, so the attached, next word--after the hyphen--must be the noun showing what Mars experienced.
C would work, too, but a crisis is experienced by people or other beings and as far as we know, no one lived on Mars when it lost its ocean and magnetosphere! But I guess the clues are in the sands of that frozen desert word! We shall find out when men and women go there in ten years!
(It has a hyphen: - ) noun acting as a modifier, an adjective, so the attached, next word--after the hyphen--must be the noun showing what Mars experienced.
C would work, too, but a crisis is experienced by people or other beings and as far as we know, no one lived on Mars when it lost its ocean and magnetosphere! But I guess the clues are in the sands of that frozen desert word! We shall find out when men and women go there in ten years!
解答・解説の日本語訳
原文の答えは b. change。「climate-change」のように、climate が後ろの名詞 change を修飾すると説明しています。crisis も語の組み合わせとしては考えられますが、本文は危機を「経験する」主体が火星上にいたかどうかを論じています。火星の海や磁場、将来の探査についての記述は執筆当時の見通しであり、現在の予定として訳し替えていません。