标题: 名词短语的独立结构:a/the [打印本页] 作者: lilyhuang 时间: 2003-12-3 17:17 标题: 名词短语的独立结构:a/the 补充题中的两题: 212.Following the destruction of the space shuttle Challenger, investigators concluded that many key people employed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and its contractors work an excessive amount of overtime, a practice that can, potentially, cause errors in judgment.
215. Ralph Eilison and Amiri Baraka both argued that music was perhaps the ultimate expression of Afro-American culture, that it was the one vector of African culture that there was no possibility to eradicate. (B) the one vector of African culture that could not be eradicated (correct answer) (D) a vector of African culture that there was no possibility to eradicate 在很多地方发现名词短语的独立结构中一般都用a而不是the，但在215题中用了the,我觉得不定冠词a更顺, 谁能解释一下谢谢先. 作者: lilyhuang 时间: 2003-12-4 10:40
再贴一个例子：PP2句子 After 26 sessions the seal was able to correctly identify the air-filled ring 75 to 80 percent of the time," a " reasonable indication that it could distinguish between the two rings.
谁能说一下215选B。Thanks a lot! 作者: smartj 时间: 2003-12-4 10:52
(D) ... that there was ... 的用法是很滑稽的，所以选(B)作者: bluestone1 时间: 2003-12-4 10:54
the one 与 the ultimate expression 对应
the ultimate expression 已表示是特指，只有一个作者: lilyhuang 时间: 2003-12-4 11:33
many thanks to bluestonel, i carefully compare the three sentences, it seems to be so: 名词短语修饰前面的整个句子时,用a; 修饰前面的名词短语时, 用the.
I know the description about "there be" in the book of LZM, but i'm not sure whether it can apply to every place. anyway, thanks a lot!作者: lilyhuang 时间: 2003-12-9 14:53
87。The debate over bilingual education centers on the issue of whether the United States should foster the idea of single common language, “an idea”, some believe, that has in the past been crucial in binding diverse constituencies together.
有点犯晕了，在这个句子中，后面的an idea是用来修饰前面的the idea of single common language. 为什么不用 the idea, some believe, that has in the past been crucial...... ??? 崩溃ing.