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作者: vianna 时间: 2008-4-24 13:25
标题: GWD21-34

A Harvard anthropologist has proposed that using
fire to cook
            food could be dated back
to almost two million years and that
            it could explain hominid features like having a large brain and
        small teeth.

A.
using fire to cook food could be dated back to almost two
million years and that it could explain hominid features
like having

B.
the use of fire to cook food could date back almost two
million years and could explain such hominid features as

C.
cooking food with fire could date back to almost two
million years, explaining hominid features like

D.
fire used to cook food could date back almost two million
years ,explaining hominid features such as having.

E.
fire used for cooking food could be dated back to almost
two million years and explain hominid features like.

答案是B,我的答案是C

我查过字典，date back 后面加to/from，虽然举例用like不是ets提倡的，但是这道题目用like也没有问题啊，请NN指点

作者: st_narcissus 时间: 2008-4-24 13:58

C. cooking food with fire could date back to almost two million years, explaining hominid features like

explaining hominid features like这个伴随状语的主语是cooking food，而句子所要表达的是the use of fire to cook could explain 先要理解句子的含义是什么

作者: cppiod 时间: 2013-9-11 07:50

st_narcissus 发表于 2008-4-24 13:58
C.      cooking food with fire could date back to almost two million years, ...

但这个伴随状语是可以修饰前面半个句子的，不光是主语。这样的话，也就修饰的是cooking food with fire，意思上没有问题啊

作者: llmmlemon 时间: 2013-9-11 10:58

vianna 发表于 2008-4-24 13:25
    A Harvard anthropologist has proposed that usingfire to cook  &nbs ...

Like不只是不提倡，like在GMAT语法中只能作为parallelism中连接名词形式的被比较对象，而不能用于表“例如”。所以几个有LIKE的选项都可以排除了。

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