【单选题】{{B}}第三篇{{/B}}
The puzzle had to do with waves. Though it might seem intuitive that waves carry water to shore, and sand along with it, it’s not that simple. The crest(浪尖)of a passing wave lifts a given hit of water upward and landward, but the ensuing trough(波谷) pushes the water back down and Out to seA、Near the bottom, there the sand is, the water was always assumed to just slide back and forth—and the sand with it. "If you take a very aloof look at a beach," says Inman, "you’ll realize that if the two motions move sand back and forth the same amount, then all the sand should end up in deep water.’
So for beaches to exist, the crest’s onshore flow must somehow move enough sand up the beach to counter the seaward tug of both the trough and gravity . The pressure changes in the sand bed, Inman andConley think, are the key to beach creation. They found that sand doesn’t just slide back and forth with each passing wave. Under a trough, it does slide seaward, in a thin layer just above the bottom.But under a crest its movement is often more elaborate. The higher pressure under a crest—higher because the water is piled higher—forces water into the porous(多孔的) sanD、This creates strong whirlpools just above the sand, which help loosen it.As the crest passes overhead, the sand first rushes across the bottom; then it abruptly turns violent lifting off the bottom in large, boiling bunches. Finally, just after the crest passes, the sand explodes up into the great water column. The boiling and rushing move more sand than the backsliding under a trough, so there’s a net movement of sand toward the shore.
B．No one has ever made any effort to ,solve the puzzle in the passage.
C．The beach is full of mysteries, but now some scientists have thrown a new light on them.
D．Scientists like to make trouble out of nothing.
网考网参考答案：C
网考网解析：
to throw a new light on sth．“帮助说明某事物”，选项C是正确的。在这篇文章中，两位海洋学家阐述了沙滩形成的原因，但没有给出公论，判定他们的解释正确与否。所以A选项不能入选。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>
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