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作者: chil 时间: 2008-8-10 08:42
标题: [求助]讨教一道OG题

With only 5 percent of the world's population, United States citizens consume 28 percent of its nonrenewable resources, drive more than one-third of its automobiles, and use 21 times more water per capita than Europeans do.

A. With

B. As

C. Being

D. Despite having

E. Although accounting for

答案是E。其他4个确实都不行，但我不明白的是E里的accounting是不是错的。我觉得应该是account 吧，因为Although引导从句，如果是accounting，那岂不是从句没有动词啦？请大家指教。

作者: georgetseng 时间: 2008-8-10 12:49
though they account for和though accounting for都是一样的，though在后者中当副词。

作者: chil 时间: 2008-8-11 02:45
多谢抽空回答。不过我刚才查了一下，“though可用作副词，意为"然而"，常用逗号与句子分开。although则不能这样使用，它只作连词。例如：It was a quiet party, I had a good time, though.” 难道是GMAC出题不严谨，应该用THOUGH？

作者: AlienX 时间: 2008-8-11 05:03
如果although/even though/while從句的主語跟主句主語是一樣**and**時態一致, 從句的主語可省and從句的main verb改成現在分詞...

作者: georgetseng 时间: 2008-8-11 05:11
上回说是副词说错了，应该是介词（或者是连词）：一般语法书里好像都没有特别指出是什么词。
Wikipedia上是这样说的： Some subordinating conjunctions (although, before, until, while), when used to introduce a phrase instead of a full clause, become prepositions with identical meanings.
所以，though doing xxx = though he does xxx； while doing xxx = while he does xxx； before doing xxx = before he does xxx, ...这在GMAT里都是很常见的，记下来这种结构就行。

作者: chil 时间: 2008-8-11 22:37

多谢高人们指点，这下清楚了

作者: ada3063 时间: 2008-8-11 23:02
为什么with是错的呢？

作者: AlienX 时间: 2008-8-12 01:30
意思上E比A好

作者: nemo11 时间: 2008-8-12 04:06

以下是引用ada3063在2008-8-11 23:02:00的发言：
为什么with是错的呢？

with有拥有的含义，逻辑意思不同

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