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Research during the past several decades on the nature of language and the processes that produce and make it understandable has revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity.

(A) that produce and make it understandable has revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity

(B) of producing and understanding it have revealed not underlying simplicity but great complexity

(D) by which it is produced and understood have revealed great complexity rather than underlying simplicity

(E) by which one produces and understands it have revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity

个人觉得这题读下来没看选项就觉得A是没错的。仔细分析一下，觉得难点还是在that produce……这个从句还有理解it的指代关系上。

1.首先分析句子结构：主干是research(主语）＋has revealed(谓语）＋complesity(宾语），该句子复杂在“during the past several decades on the nature of language and the processes that produce and make it understandable ”这个部分。这一部分都是修饰主语的，包括during the past several decades ＋on the nature of language and the processes that…… 是两个介词短语做定语修饰主语research. 而第二个介词短语on the nature of language and the processes that……中又包括一个并列的成份，即由and连接的the nature 和 the processes并列作on的宾语。其中，that引导的定语从句是修饰 processes的。因为从句中的谓语动词produce and make 都是复数形式，是与processes一致的。因此从语法结构上来讲，这个句子肯定是很通顺，没问题的啦

2.关于it的指代问题：俺觉得在nature 和 language这两个对象间有点迷惑。但是我更倾向于it是指代nature的。这样句子意思应该就是：在过去的几十年中对语言的本质，以及对产生和使该本质更明确的过程的研究显示出很大的复杂性，而不是基本的简单性。

3.C (oops~~~Why can't I type Chinese now?) , since LZ mentioned this option, I can't figure out any problem with it. Maybe there's something wrong with the"not````but". Who can explain this a little bit further~~~~HELP

个人认为c答案很工整，not...but的形式也符合ETS的最爱，请哪位NN指点一下！

1.关于 not...but.. 参见OG11-104 not is an awkward way to establish a contrast;instead of,rather than,or unlike are more appropriate idioms to express a contrast.

2 关于 by which,Research during the past several decades on the nature of language and the processes by which it is produced and understood ......

句子的主语是research+时间状语+介短，这个by which it is的it指代的是research而不是原文本来想指代的nature。

举个例子：Study on Mechanisms by Which GABA Transmitter and Recepter Terminate the Critical Period of Rat Visual Development

以下是引用shuishui_xp在2008-8-2 21:22:00的发言：

1.关于 not...but.. 参见OG11-104 not is an awkward way to establish a contrast;instead of,rather than,or unlike are more appropriate idioms to express a contrast.

原来的解释是说"And not"用于引导一个对比不如后面的好刚才翻了翻XDF的笔记，not but > rather than > instead of ，当然"一切皆有可能"，呵呵。

2 关于 by which,Research during the past several decades on the nature of language and the processes by which it is produced and understood ......

句子的主语是research+时间状语+介短，这个by which it is的it指代的是research而不是原文本来想指代的nature。

如果这里it是指research那么A中的it又是指代research吗？A也不对了。这个题可恶，我那稍纵即逝的青春被它吃掉了若干小时。最后，我还是倾向A的，原因是读了A和C数十遍，读出了一点understood和understandable的感觉。understandable这里比understood更贴切。

举个例子：Study on Mechanisms by Which GABA Transmitter and Recepter Terminate the Critical Period of Rat Visual Development

在別處看到別人貼的連結, 建議可以去看看前人精彩的討論喔.

1，make it understandable的被动应该是it is made understandable，it is understood改变了原文的意思

2，produce and make it understandable看似少了一个it，produce and make共用一个it。这样产生了effectiveness的错误，但不是correctiveness的错误。

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