【揽瓜阁语法打卡小分队】Day82

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Day 82

1.(411)The infected people came from various social classes and parts of the city – a reminder that epidemics do not discriminate and are not just a natural result of poverty.

A: a reminder that epidemics do not discriminate and are not just a natural result of poverty.

B: a reminder that epidemics do not discriminate, resulting not just naturally from poverty.

C: reminders that epidemics do not discriminate and not resulting naturally from poverty.

D: a reminder that epidemics do not discriminate and not resulting naturally from poverty.

E: reminders that epidemics do not discriminate and are not just a result of natural poverty.

考点是同位语及平行

2.(412)A recent research study of worldwide cellular penetration finds that there are now one mobile phone for every two people, more than twice as many than there were in 2005.

(A) there are now one mobile phone for every two people, more than twice as many than there were

(B) there is now one mobile phone for every two people, more than twice as many than there were

(C) there is now one mobile phone for every two people, more than twice as many as there were

(D) every two people now have one mobile phone, more than twice as many than there were

(E) every two people now has one mobile phone, more than twice as many as there were

考点是there be主谓一致；注意区分第一个more than和第二个as many as比较修饰不同

3.(413)Consuming more Spam per capita than any U.S. state, Hawaiians refer to the ubiquitous product as “the Hawaiian steak.”

(A) Consuming more Spam per capita than any U.S. state, Hawaiians refer
(B) Because they consume more Spam per capita than any U.S. state, Hawaiians refer
(C) Hawaiians consume more Spam per capita than do residents of any U.S. state; they refer
(D) In Hawaii, which consumes more Spam per capita than any U.S. state, they refer
(E) Hawaiians, who consume more Spam per capita than do the residents of any other U.S. state, refer

注意比较对象：夏威夷人和其他州的人

4.(414)A booming population center, the Asian continent is home to over 3.5billion people, about equivalent to the residents of all the other areas of the world combined.

(a) equivalent to the residents of
(b) the equivalent of those residing in
(c) equal to those who reside in
(d) as many as the residents of
(e) as many as reside in

as many as 比较优于equal equivalent

as many as reside in 不平行

5.(415)While most graduate students find that their education has prepared them well for their future careers, some express concern over their education lacking real-world application, having, for example, been given homework that is unrepresentative of realistic scenarios or having beenassigned to group projects that do not adequately consider the skills of the individual participants.

(A) having, for example, been given homework that is unrepresentative of realistic scenarios or having been

(B) having, for example, homework that is unrepresentative of realistic scenarios or being

(C) as, for example, having too unrealistic a scenario in their homework, or being

(D) when they have, for example, been given unrealistic scenarios in their homework, or were

(E) for example, when they have homework that is unrepresentative of realistic scenarios, or been

lack as??

6.(416)The business’s headquarters was moved first from Atlanta to Macon, and then, after three more years of declining profits, from Macon to Omaha, during which the business succeeded in recapturing its dominant presence in the market.

(A) from Macon to Omaha, during which the business
(B) from Macon to Omaha, where it
(C) from Macon to Omaha, where they
(D) it was then moved from Macon to Omaha, where it
(E) from Macon to Omaha, where the business

it 没有指代对象

如果是during which的话 应该是直接在from M to O之前修饰 而不是放在其后

7.(417)The historical significance of Barack Obama's presidency will no doubt one day be described in a plethora of books with subjects that range from the role played by the first-lady, Michelle Obama, and his handling of the completion of one war and the heightening of activity in another.

A. and
B. to
C. and to
D. and from
E. in addition to

注意range from to

8.(418)Ancient volcanoes, whose lava flows cover nearly 200,000 square miles of the Deccan region of India, thought to be one of the possible causes of dinosaur extinction.

A. thought to be
B. are thought to be
C. some think them to be
D. some think they are
E. it is thought that they are

主谓被修饰成分隔开

9.(419)The library's new sorting method, which the acquisitions librarian modeled after a technique used in the British Library, reduced from a week and a half to four days the required time of processing a new book.

A. from a week and a half to four days the required time of processing a new book
B. the time being required to process a new book, from a week and a half down to four days
C. the time being required to process a new book, a week and a half to four days
D. the time required to process a new book from a week and a half to four days
E. from a week and a half to four days, the time required for the processing of a new book        

10.(420)Pluto, along with the solar bodies Ceres, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris, are properly classified as dwarf planets, which differ from planets in that dwarf planets are not sufficiently large to clear all planetesimals from the areas around their orbits.

A. are properly classified as dwarf planets, which differ from planets in that dwarf planets are not sufficiently large to clear all planetesimals from the areas around their orbits

B. is properly classified as a dwarf planet, which differs from a planet in that a dwarf planet is not sufficiently large to clear all planetesimals from the area around its orbit

C. constitute the dwarf planets, which, unlike planets themselves, are not sufficiently large to clear all planetesimals from their surrounding areas

D. is properly classified as a dwarf planet, which differs from a planet through it being insufficiently large to clear all planetesimals from the area around its orbit

E. are properly classified as dwarf planets, which differ from planets in their inability to be sufficiently large to clear all planetesimals from the areas around their orbits