以下是引用dingxiang在2007-8-16 15:10:00的发言:查了下白勇, 说similar to the way 表示动作的相似性,不简洁,应该用as 替换。(另外:xdf经验规律,similar to 放在句首永远错,即使是放在分句的句首) 实际上这道题目,易混淆的在c 和E,like 和as 的用法。 like比较的事物要对等,而此处fruit并不是真正的呼吸,而只是一种生理过程,所以不能用like 用as +句子 且要补出助动词 do。
这题越来越confused了,
句个例子,虽然和上题不是很匹配:
126. More than thirty years ago Dr. Barbara McClintock, the Nobel Prize winner, reported that genes can "jump," as pearls moving mysteriously from one necklace to another. (A) as pearls moving mysteriously from one necklace to another (B) like pearls moving mysteriously from one necklace to another (C) as pearls do that move mysteriously from one necklace to others (D) like pearls do that move mysteriously from one necklace to others (E) as do pearls that move mysteriously from one necklace to some other one Choice B, the best answer, correctly and idiomatically uses the preposition like to introduce a comparison that is expressed , in a prepositional phrase. In A, as is used unidiomatically; in comparison, as is properly employed as a conjunction introducing a subordinate clause. Choices C, D, and E are all faulty because the verb do suggests that the migrating pearls are presented as a real phenomenon, not as a figurative illustration. Also, in D, like is used ungrammatically to introduce a subordinate clause (pearls do ...); and in E, the phrase some other one, substituted for another, is awkward and wordy.
联想到此题,just as human beings do when they breathe,我觉得这里也是一个打比方,so what does the word "do" mean here? Is it reasonable?但是这里不好排除,因为人是有呼吸这个动作的。 我觉得E很啰嗦。。 Although fruit can no longer grow once it is picked, it continues for some time to respire, taking in oxygen and giving off carbon dioxide, just as human beings do when they breathe. 而且这里do按语法逻辑意思上说,应该是对应前面的respire, 这样一来human beings respire when the breathe. 很redundant阿. 句子的意思上讲,应该是水果呼吸(的过程-taking in oxygen and giving off carbon dioxide)与人呼吸很类似,我越来越觉得A对了。
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