ability to adapt to ?
to adapt 起修饰作用啊，不影响ability 的名词性质。
比如i have a plan to study hard
to study hard是修饰这个plan的，不是目的状语，我感觉这是你要表达的意思吧
Though subject to the same wild-animal control efforts that killed off almost all the wolves in North America over the past century, the coyote's amazing ability of adapting to the presence of humans has enabled it to expand its range into Alaska and Central America
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A.coyote's amazing ability of adapting to the presence of humans has enabled it to expand its
B.coyote, because of its amazing ability of adapting to the presence of humans, have been able to expand their
C.coyote, because of its amazing ability to adapt to the presence of humans, has been able to expand its
D.amazing ability of the coyote to adapt to the presence of humans have enabled it to expand the(C)
E.amazing ability of the coyote to adapt to the presence of humans has enabled it to expand the
大概的对错都明白了，想请教大家关于答案C中because of 后面接的 ability to adapt to ，然而because of 后面应该接名词或名词短语，这里的不定式应怎么解释呢~~~ 这也确实是固定搭配
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-- by 会员 houhaibo528 (2011/9/15 16:44:18)