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PREP一道CR 急求牛人解答
Lyme disease is caused by a bacterium transmitted to humans by deer ticks.Generally, deer ticks pick up the bacterium while in the larval stage by feeding on infected white-footed mice.However, certain other species on which the larvae feed do not harbor the bacterium.If the population of these other species were increased, more of the larvae would be feeding on uninfected hosts, so the number of ticks acquiring the bacterium would likely decline.
Which of the following would it be most important to ascertain in evaluating the argument?
A. Whether populations of the other species on which deer tick larvae feed are found only in areas also inhabited by white-footed mice
B. Whether the size of the deer tick population is currently limited by the availability of animals for the tick's larval stage to feed on
C. Whether the infected deer tick population could be controlled by increasing the number of animals that prey on white-footed mice
D. Whether deer ticks that were not infected as larvae can become infected as adults by feeding on deer on which infected deer ticks have fed无关
E. Whether the other species on which deer tick larvae feed harbor any other bacteria that ticks transmit to humans无关
这题正确选项是B。为什么我觉得是C呢?
原文翻译:L是一种通过鹿的虱子传播给人的一种疾病。一般来看,鹿虱子一般是在幼虫阶段吃了感染的白脚鼠。但是幼虫吃的其它物种就不会感染病菌。如果别的物种增多,那么幼虫吃其他物种变多,所以虱子吃到细菌的机会就会降低。
B鹿虱子的数量是否受到鹿虱子的幼虫能够吃到的食物数量的限制
C受感染的鹿虱子的数量能否通过增加捕食白脚鼠的其他动物的数量而受到限制
我觉得C对,如果能够通过增加其他捕食白鼠的动物的数量,来控制鹿虱子的数量,说明鹿虱子吃到的白鼠少了,受感染少了。这不正印证原文吗?
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