Geologists therefore wondered whether the friction between the plates was being reduced by pockets of pressurized water within the fault that push the plates away from each other.目前仍然没有明确的理论可以解释那些消失的热量
Yet another explanation blames the federal budget deficit: if it were lower, interest rates would be lower too, thereby increasing investment in the development of new technologies, which would spur productivity growth in the service sector.
P1 There are recent reports of apparently drastic declines (Anecdotal reports of population decreases ) in amphibian populations and of extinctions of a number of the world's endangered amphibian species.
An endangered population is always rare(A), almost always small(B), and, by definition, under constant threat of extinction(C) even without a proximate cause in human activities(E).---->D
C,D选项用了but; but 为coordinating conjunction, 同 and和yet, 前后必须有并列结构