A study of food resources in the North Pacific between 1989 and 1996 revealed that creatures of the seabed were suffering from dwindling food supplies, possibly a result from increasing sea surfacetemperatures during the same period.
A.that creatures of the seabed were suffering from dwindling food supplies, possibly a result from increasing
B.that creatures of the seabed were suffering because food supplies were dwindling, possibly as aresult of an increase in
解析:
A. The placement of the final appositive (possibly a result. . . ) causes confusion as to what is beingdescribed—dwindling food or suffering creatures; the preposition from is not idiomatic.
B.Correct. This sentence clarifies the causal relationships among suffering creatures, dwindling foodsupplies and increasing temperatures.