158.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,ETS说表达转折意识,想请问C为什么不对呢?如果也加上although,是不是就对了呢?如果本句没有转折意思,C是不是也对呢?
谢谢
158.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,ETS说表达转折意识,想请问C为什么不对呢?如果也加上although,是不是就对了呢?如果本句没有转折意思,C是不是也对呢?
谢谢
3楼的能解释一下,为什么用分词不对呢?
being和accounting for不是都表达美国人口占世界人口的5%吗?
只是缺少一个转折意思吗?
MM不要急,pumpkin斑竹这两天听托福过量,以至眼花,还请谅解。
参考这个帖子,或许有用。http://forum.chasedream.com/dispbbs.asp?BoardID=23&ID=56642
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嗯,谢谢两位斑竹,看来还是有点受汉语的影响,比如说“美国人占世界人口的5%”或“美国人是世界人口的5%”,好像口语中都可以,所以选C和E犹豫了。
那请问斑竹,是不是表达这种统计数据,都用accout for啊?
I think this one is idiomatic. If you have two cakes in the room, you don't say "The cake on the left has 50% of the cakes in this room." Instead, you say "The cake on the left accounts for 50% of the cakes in this room."
為什麼我覺得不能選C的原因就只是因為being並不能夠傳達"contrast"的語感呢?也就是說需要有although字眼才能使句子通順.其實OG也只點明這個錯誤原因, 並未提到being有無問題...
不過如果是這樣,那although being only 5% of the world's population,.....算對嗎?
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In my opinion, it is the subject that decides whether to use have or account for.
China has the population of 1 bn.
The population of China is 1 bn.
But we cannot say "China citizens have/are the population of 1 bn."
同问,although是一个连词,为什么可以接分词呢,应该接一个句子才对啊,我上来首先排除的就是E。
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