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Rhetorical Question;Question Identification;type1:例证目的:都是为了证明总括句，因此一定要找准总括句。总括句常见位置：1.例句前一句；2.该段落的首句和第二句；3.例句的下一句。（多为一段开头的一二两句中包含：some, many, a few、diverse, different, 等一些词汇的句子。即接下来文段会对其进行展开）note:;type2:比喻目的——按照字面意思解释多为错误，一定要往作者的写作目的方向答题。这时候就需要关注每段的首句，第二句以及所考察的句子的前一句话。;Para 1 The story of the westward movement of population in the United States is, in the main, the story of the expansion of American agriculture-of the development of new areas for the raising of livestock and the cultivation of wheat, corn, tobacco, and cotton. After 1815 improved transportation enabled more and more western farmers to escape a self-sufficient way of life and enter a national market economy during periods when commodity prices were high, the rate of westward migration increased spectacularly. “Old America seemed to be breaking up and moving westward,” observed an English visitor in 1817, during the first great wave of migration.Emigration to the west reached a peak in the 1830’s. whereas in 1810 only a seventy of the American people lived west of the Appalachian mountains, by 1840 more than a third lived there. 3. What is the purpose of the statement,“whereas in 1810 only a seventy of the American people lived west of Appalachian Mountains, by 1840 more than a third lived there”? ○To illustrate that generally population shifts occur rapidly ○To correct a mistaken impression of American agriculture from 1810 to 1840 ○To emphasize the range and speed with which the westward migration occurred ○To demonstrate how attractive the Appalachian Mountains were to Americans;When one considers the many ways by which organisms are completely destroyed after death, it is remarkable that fossils are as common as they are. Attack by scavengers and bacteria, chemical decay, and destruction by erosion and other geologic agencies make the odds against preservation very high. However, the chances of escaping complete destruction are vastly improved if the organism happens to have a mineralized