专升本考试

【单选题】"Defied" in the fifth paragraph probably means" ______ ".
A．doubled
B．gave proof to
C．challenged
D．agreed to
网考网参考答案：C
网考网解析：
词汇释义题。根据第五段中“At the early attempts，the cable failed and when it was taken out for repairs it was found to be covered in living growths，a fact which defied contemporary scientific opinion that there was no life in the deeper parts of the sea”可得出正确答案为C。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>