It possesses a peculiar sweet，earthy odour not unlike isopropyl alcohol. Ambergris is a solid, waxy and flammable substance of a dull grey or blackish color, with the shades being variegated like marble. Ĭ Ambergris and amber are related by the fact that both wash up on beaches. We could not find any information relating to ambergris which states that it could be seen through => The answer must be B. amber is a hard, transparent and wholly-organic material.įrom the text, transparent could be understood as could be seen through. There, the trees and their resins became covered with sediment, and over millions of years the resin hardened into amber. In the dense forests of the Middle Cretaceous and Tertiary periods, between 10 and 100 million years ago, these resin-bearing trees fell and were carried by rivers to coastal regions.
Although considered a gem, amber is a hard, transparent and wholly-organic material derived from the resin of extinct species of trees. Amber is the fossilized resin from trees that was quite familiar to Europeans long before the discovery of the New World, and prized for jewelry. ī Amber, however, is quite a different substance from ambergris and this discrepancy has puzzled some people. Similarly, we could not find any information relating to amber which states that it is used as a food flavor => The answer must be A: ony ambergris is used as food flavor. Q2: From the text, food flavor could be understood as very expensive. Additionally, when we look at the next paragraph, it does not contain the information showing that amber has high price => The answer must be A : very expensive is the only character belonged to ambergris. Q1: From the text, high price could be understood as very expensive. that neither amber nor ambergris has this property. + After reading the whole passage, if you could not find any synonyms of the question’s keywords, the answer must be D. + If you could not find the proper answers after reading through these two paragraphs, skip them to the next questions. that both ambergris and amber have this characteristic. + If you find any synonyms of the question’s keywords, and it turns out to be the ambergris’s characteristic, for example, you should check whether this characteristic could be found in amber since we have the option C. + While the first paragraph in this passage describes the characters of ambergris, the second one focus on amber => Most of the information related to ambergris and amber could be found in these two paragraphs. Its high price varies from $15 to $25 an ounce
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