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第  PAGE 6 页 共  NUMPAGES 6 页 高分提能训练(六) 阅读理解 A A 2-billion-year old Martian rock from the surface of the Red Planet appears to have at one time been full of water.“Here we have a piece of Mars that I can hold in my hands.That’s really exciting，” Carl Agee，director of the Institute of Meteoritics and professor at the University of New Mexico，told the Associated Press. Agee led a team of scientists who published their report on the newly discovered meteorite(陨石)，nicknamed Black Beauty，in the journal Science.The rock is estimated to have contained 6,000 parts per million water，and scientists believe it possibly interacted with water at a time when most of the planet’s surface was believed to have been arid，which means there was little water at that time. The baseball-size rock was discovered in the Sahara desert，and scientists say it contains more evidence of water than any of the other known Martian rock samples.“It’s fairly fresh.It hasn’t been changed to a whole lot of weathering because the weather in the Sahara was not as changeable as other places，”University of Alberta meteorite expert Chris Herd told the AP.[来源:学科网] Billions of years ago，an eruption on the surface of Mars，possibly caused by a volcano，sent the rock into space.And it eventually made the journey to Earth.Agee and his team said the sample is“surprisingly similar to the volcanic rocks examined by the NASA rovers Spirit and Opportunity on the Martian surface”．[来源:Z。xx。k.Com] Over the years，scientists have collected more than 60 Martian rock samples，with most being discovered in the Sahara and Antarctica.The new sample is much older than most of the other ones，which are about 600 million years old or younger.The oldest known sample is estimated to be 4.5 billion years old. A private owner donated the Black Beauty finding to the University of New Mexico. 语篇解读：一颗在撒哈拉沙漠发现的火星陨石以前富含丰富的水分，这颗陨石是数十亿年前因为火星上的火山爆发而降落到地球上来的。[来源:学科网ZXXK] 1．From Paragraph 1 we know that the Martian