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 More selective than most chemical pesticides in that they ordinarily destroy only unwanted species, biocontrol agents (such as insects, fungi, and viruses) eat, infect, or parasitize targeted plant or animal pests. However, biocontrol agents can negatively affect nontarget species by, for example, competing with them for resources: a biocontrol agent might reduce the benefits conferred by a desirable animal species by consuming a plant on which the animal prefers to lay its eggs. Another example of indirect negative consequences occurred in England when a virus introduced to control rabbits reduced the amount of open ground (because large rabbit populations reduce the ground cover), in turn reducing underground ant nests and triggering the extinction of a blue butterfly that had depended on the nests to shelter its offspring. The paucity of known extinctions or disruptions resulting from indirect interactions may reflect not the infrequency of such mishaps but rather the failure to look for or to detect them: most organisms likely to be adversely affected by indirect interactions are of little or no known commercial value and the events linking a biocontrol agent with an adverse effect are often unclear. Moreover, determining the potential risks of biocontrol agents before they are used is difficult, especially when a nonnative agent is introduced, because, unlike a chemical pesticide, a biocontrol agent may adapt in unpredictable ways so that it can feed on or otherwise harm new hosts.

Question #7. 091-06 (21560-!-item-!-188;#058&000091-06)

The passage suggests which of the following about the blue butterfly mentioned in the highlighted text?

(A) The blue butterfly's survival was indirectly dependent on sustaining a rabbit population of a particular size.

(B) The blue butterfly's survival was indirectly dependent on sustaining large amounts of vegetation in its habitat.

(C) The blue butterfly's survival was threatened when the ants began preying on its offspring.

 (D) The blue butterfly was infected by the virus that had been intended to control rabbit populations.

(E) The blue butterfly was adversely affected by a biocontrol agent that competed with it for resources.

答案为A.我选E

知道是从原文绿色部分找答案,但不知道答案A 的 indirectly dependent on sustaining a rabbit population of a particular size是怎么推出来的

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英格兰引进一种病毒来消灭破坏草皮的一大批兔子,结果同时消灭了蚂蚁窝,而

蓝蝴蝶的卵通常产在蚂蚁窝里,这样控制兔子数量就间接影响到蓝蝴蝶的生存。A对。

E是文章没提到的,蓝蝴蝶和生物控制技术并不存在资源竞争的问题。蓝蝴蝶的资源

是蚂蚁窝,生物控制技术的资源是草皮。

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明白了,谢谢!

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