标题: 求助大全145 [打印本页] 作者: meckychen 时间: 2010-4-29 11:05 标题: 求助大全145 Astronomers at the Palomar Observatory have discovered a distant supernova explosion, one that they believe is a type previously unknown to science. (A) that they believe is (B) that they believe it to be (C) they believe that it is of (D) they believe that is (E) they believe to be of Ans：E Why？ Thank you。作者: aeoluseros 时间: 2010-4-30 02:03 Choice E is best. The pronoun that in A and B should be deleted, since the pronoun one is sufficient to introduce the modifier and the sentence is more fluid without that. In B and C, it and that it are intrusive and ungrammatical: the idiom is “believe x to be y.” In the context of this sentence, the infinitive to be is more appropriate than the limited present-tense is in referring to an event that occurred long ago but has been discovered only recently. Finally, A, B, and D lack of and so illogically equate this particular explosion with the whole class of explosions to which it belongs: it is not a type but possibly one of a type. 作者: daier 时间: 2010-4-30 09:20
1.believe sth to be,sth believed to be,固定搭配 2。 a distant supernova explosion是一个具体的东西，a type是一个种类，一个具体的食物不可能等同于一个种类，只能从属于一个种类，be of表示从属，只能选E作者: meckychen 时间: 2010-5-5 13:59
thank you very much.