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What accounts for the low-lying, flat surface of Mars’s north? On Earth’s surface, higher- and lower-lying areas have different

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问题     What accounts for the low-lying, flat surface of Mars’s north? On Earth’s surface, higher- and lower-lying areas have different types of crust: one, thin and dense, is pulled toward Earth’s center more strongly by gravity, and the planet’s water naturally comes to sit over it, creating oceans. The processes that generate this oceanic crust drive plate tectonics.
    Is Mars’s north similarly characterized by a sort of crust different from other areas of the planet? Some researchers do see signs of tectonic activity surrounding the northern basin that suggest that it was created through the formation of new crust, like ocean basins on Earth. However, McGill points to northern bedrock structures that predate the features said to mark the start of the tectonic process. McGill instead believes that through some novel mechanism the ancient surface sank to its current depth as a single unit. This would explain why features around the basin’s edge, which would have formed as the surface dropped, seem to be younger than structures at its floor.
    The third possibility is that the northern lowlands result from impacts. Some researchers suggest they formed as a series of big overlapping impact craters. Others arguing that the odds against such a pattern of impacts are large, postulate a single event—the impact of an object bigger than any asteroid the solar system now contains.
As presented in the passage, McGill’s account of the formation of Mars’s northern basin differs from the others mentioned in that it alone
选项 A、explains the formation of certain northern bedrock features.
B、does not specify the force that caused the northern basin to be lower than its surroundings.
C、takes the northern basin to be a landform that is not analogous to any found on Earth.
D、denies that features around the northern basin are the result of tectonic activity.
E、attributes the creation of the northern lowlands to processes occurring within the planet.
答案B
解析 观点一的力量是引力，观点三的力量是撞击力，只有麦吉尔提出了“新颖的方式”，但没有明确指出产生盆地的力量是什么，因此选项B正确。A项所有的观点都在解释北部基岩特征的行程。C项观点三也没有和地球相类比。D项观点三也否认了板块活动。E项尚不清楚麦吉尔的观点是否是内部力量。
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