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Due to poaching and increased cultivation in their native habitats, researchers have determined that there are fewer than 100 Arabian leopards left in the wild, and that these leopards are thus many times as rare as
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(A) Due to poaching and increased cultivation in their native habitats, researchers have determined that there are fewer than 100 Arabian leopards left in the wild, and that these leopards are thus many times as rare as （因为their离得近的是researchers）

(B) Due to poaching and increased cultivation in their native habitats, there are fewer than 100 Arabian leopards left in the wild, researchers have determined, making them many times more rare than

(C) There are fewer than 100 Arabian leopards left in the wild due to poaching and increased cultivation in their native habitats, researchers have determined, which makes the leopards many times more rare compared to

(D) Researchers have determined that, because of being poached and increased cultivation in their native habitats, there are fewer than 100 Arabian leopards left in the wild, thus making them many more times as rare as

(E) Researchers have determined that, because of poaching and increased cultivation in their native habitats, there are fewer than 100 Arabian leopards left in the wild, and that these leopards are thus many times more rare than

a small question on the Official answer E

Why dont use "being poached" as D does?

It is obvious that the leopard is poached.

Many thanks

poaching 是动名词和 increased cultivation 并列，表示这个行为。

being poached 是分词结构， 这里没有对应的修饰词。

yes. see.

I misunderstood the original meaning.

Thanks

問一下...because of doing不是錯誤用法嗎?? 為什麼這裡就可以了

我也有楼上的问题。顶

agree with tonyakira

here poaching is noun

(A) Due to poaching and increased cultivation in their native habitats, researchers have determined that there are fewer than 100 Arabian leopards left in the wild, and that these leopards are thus many times as rare as

(E) Researchers have determined that, because of poaching and increased cultivation in their native habitats, there are fewer than 100 Arabian leopards left in the wild, and that these leopards are thus many times more rare than

问一下E的问题，because of是优于due to

但是关于many times more rare than，以前好像在OG看见过表示倍数的之后不能再用more than，哪位NN能对这种用法的正确性给予确认吗

可以用more than 跟X times as many as ... 意思有差别。

关于due to，一种说法是due to 不能放于句首，另一种说法是只有在可以用caused by替换due to的情况下才能用due to

测试一下，caused by ...., researchers have determined... 不对