1. Scientists have recently discovered what could be the largest and oldest living organism on Earth, a giant fungus that is an interwoven filigree of mushrooms and rootlike tentacles spawned by a single fertilized spore some 10,000 years ago and extending for more than 30 acres in the soil of a Michigan forest. (A) extending (B) extends (C) extended (D) it extended(A) (E) is extending
这道题没有人问,可能是我想偏了。 CD可以根据时态排除,OG上只是说extend要和spawn平行并列,但是为什么extend一定要描述持续进行的状态,而不能像B那样描述一种客观现象,用一般现在时? 感觉spawned前面省略了that was。不用extend是为了避免和that is产生歧义,为什么呢。 |