Q19:

New genetic evidence—together with recent studies of elephants’ skeletons, tusks, and other anatomical features—provide compelling support for classifying Africa’s forest elephants and its savanna elephants as separate species.

A.     provide compelling support for classifying

B.     provide compelling support for the classification of

C.     provides compelling support to the classification of

D.     provides compelling support for classifying

E.      provides compelling support to classify

答案是D 偶选的E 应该是provide ...to 才对啊?难道我记错了

1: Scientists claim that the discovery of the first authenticated mammal bones in amber could provide important clues of determining, in addition to how, when mammals colonized the islands of the West Indies.

A: of determining, in addition to how, when mammals colonized the islands of the West Indies

B: in the determination of how and when the islands of the West Indies were colonized by mammals

C: to determine how mammals colonized the islands of the West Indies and when they did

D: for determining when the islands of the West Indies were colonized by mammals and how they were

E: for determining how and when mammals colonized the islands of the West Indies

这是GWD24的题 答案是E 是不是ETS认为provide to 是错的呢

这里是不能用to的，如果用to的话，这句话在意思上将是：

New genetic evidence... to classify这显然是不正确的。

而使用for这句话的理解是“在classifying LACE>AfricaLACE>’s forest elephants and its savanna elephants as separate species.时，New genetic evidence提供了compelling support 。

在朗文中有这样的例句：

第二道题目，我觉得如果有provide to determine how and when 的选项也应该是对的，to 是表目的的，并非根provide 固定搭配有关吧？不清楚，我只是个人见解，希望有人能告知是否provide有固定搭配？

同意用for,但对WINKY的解释有不同见解:

provide evidence/explanation for sth/doing sth.  for后面的名词或动名词应该翻译成"对...,关于...",是整句话动作的一个对象

He provide no explanation for what he was doing that evening. 他对他那天晚上的所作所为没有做出任何解释.

同样的.New genetic evidence provide compelling support for classifying LACE>AfricaLACE>’s forest elephants and its savanna elephants as separate species. 应该翻译成"新的基因证据为将非洲森林象及草原象分类成不同的种类提供了有说服力的支持"