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703The British sociologist and activist Barbara Wootton once noted as a humorous example of income maldistribution that the elephant that gave rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo was earning annually exactly what she then earned as director of adult education for London.

(A) that the elephant that gave rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo was earning

(B) that the elephant, giving rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo, had been earning

(C) that there was an elephant giving rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo, and it earned

(D) the elephant that gave rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo and was earning（A）

(E) the elephant giving rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo and that it earned

有两种情况可在名词前使用定冠词ＴＨＥ：1) 前面提到过这个名词; 2) 名词后使用限定性定语言从句-如本题

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Choice A, the best answer, uses the idiomatic construction noted... that and clearly focuses on the salient information—a comparison of annual earnings. In B, the structure of noted... that the elephant, giving rides..., had been earning falsely implies that the reader already knows about the elephant—that is, that the existence of this particular elephant is not new information. Also, the past perfect had been improperly places the elephant’s earning in the past, prior to Wootton’s; consistent verb tense is needed to show that the actions are simultaneous. Choice C may be faulted for distortion of meaning and diminished clarity because it suggests that the point of Wootton’s example was the elephant’s very existence; comparative earnings are presented (after and) as incidental detail. Choice D is awkward and inexact; the whole circumstance that Wootton “noted” is best expressed in a clause that begins with that. Choice E does not use the idiomatic construction noted that x; therefore, and that it earned has no parallel construction to which it can be joined.

我想知道：og对于C的解释是什么意思？C为什么错？

我觉得 用一般过去式比过去进行时好，大家认为呢？

C 扭曲了愿意，错误说wood's example 是指这个大象的存在，而差不多的工资只不过是一个巧合的例子。而原文是说大象挣的工资和她作为成人教育主任挣的差不多。希望说清楚了。而且我觉得ets 严重不喜欢there be 举行。 时态的问题我说不好，每次都是凭感觉。

谢谢，美美！

我就是不是很明白这句话comparative earnings are presented (after and) as incidental detail.，答案A里面的大象不也是一个特指的范围吗？

可以继续帮我分析分析吗？

直译就是：差不多的工资被作为一个附带的细节来提出，错误说明wootton例子是指大象的存在而不是她本来要说明的她的工资和大象的差不多。 所以C 错了。

我不懂你说的 “不也是一个特指的范围吗”是什么意思。

A-那只让孩子们骑的大象（大象是新信息）

B－那只大象，正让孩子们骑呢，已经在挣者和wootton 差不多的工资 （好象读者早已知道那只大象）

我明白啦，有点那个意思！

我说的是我用黄色标出来的部分，og的解释。我想还是两句的谓语不同，导致他们的强调的发生了变化吧

我的理解是

题目强调那头可以give rides to children的大象才能赚到和那个sociologist一样多的东西。

但是如果用had been的话，意思是说在大象能够give rides to children以前，它就能够赚到和sociologist一样多的东西。这样的话就会产生逻辑错误。所以b答案是错误的。

不知道理解对不对，请nn指教。

我觉得there be 就有问题

there be 是不以人意志而改变的东西，大象不是自然存在的东西（在公园里，可以不在那里的）所以我觉得不能用there be

请教这题题目原句是不是有倒装? 谢谢指教

noted as a... that the elephant...

这句不算倒装.

noted as a humorous example (of income maldistribution) that the elephant