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作者: 黑夜 时间: 2008-7-4 15:09
标题: 小蓝P273 （128）

As a result of the ground-breaking work of Barbara McClintock, many scientists now believe that all of the information encoded in 50,000 to 100,000 of the different genes found in a human cell are contained in merely three percent of the cell’s DNA.

(A) 50,000 to 100,000 of the different genes found in a human cell are contained in merely
(B) 50,000 to 100,000 of the human cell’s different genes are contained in a mere
(C) the 50,000 to 100,000 different genes found in human cells are contained in merely
(D) 50,000 to 100,000 of human cell’s different genes is contained in merely
(E) the 50,000 to 100,000 different genes found in a human cell is contained in a mere

我选了D，答案选E。我有2个疑问：1，为什么是the 50,000 to 100,000而不是50,000 to 100,000；2，为什么是in a mere而不是in merely 。请大家帮忙分析下，谢谢。

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作者: AlienX 时间: 2008-7-4 15:24
"50,000 to 100,000 of human cell's different genes" vs. "the 50,000 to 100,000 different genes found in a human cell"
- "50,000 to 100,000 of human cell's different genes"是說隨便的50,000到100,000不同的genes在任何human的cell
- "the 50,000 to 100,000 different genes found in a human cell"是指特定的50,000到100,000不同的genes在任何一個human的cell
in general, scientific的research都是based on一些很specific的data, 所以用特指是很正常...
umm...解不太好, 還是等NN來

merely是副詞, 修動詞
mere是形容詞, 修明詞
不看意思, 只看文法的話, merely該在contained之前, 所以A, C and D都不對.

by the way, 在OG10上有, 可看看OG's explanation.

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