我认为： 1，没见过so as to倒装（到底能不能有待检验）。 2，主要问题在于so as to的逻辑主语是谁不清楚。 千万注意：没有语法规则保证它的逻辑主语就是主句主语。所以，虽然从逻辑上说很容易想到它的主语就是主句主语，而且这样理解起来也非常自然，但在语法上是无法保证的，所以可能造成理解上的混乱。 请看我在帖子http://bbs.chasedream.com/dispbbs.asp?BoardID=23&replyID=110803&id=16288&star=1&skin=0中的例子。
这一点与下面的这个题目极为相似： 171. In 1527 King Henry VIII sought to have his marriage to Queen Catherine annulled so as to marry Anne Boleyn. (A) so as to marry (B) and so could be married to (C) to be married to (D) so that he could marry (E) in order that he would marry 注意ETS在解释A不对时说的话： Awkward and imprecise, A does not specify who is to marry Anne.
Good ones: 10. Climatic shifts are so gradual as to be indistinguishable at first from ordinary fluctuations in the weather. (A) so gradual as to be indistinguishable (B) so gradual they can be indistinguishable (C) so gradual that they are unable to be distinguished (D) gradual enough not to be distinguishable (E) gradual enough so that one cannot distinguish them A
14. Although one link in the chain was demonstrated to be weak, but not sufficiently so to require the recall of the automobile. (A) demonstrated to be weak, but not sufficiently so to require (B) demonstrated as weak, but it was not sufficiently so that it required (C) demonstrably weak, but not sufficiently so to require (D) demonstrably weak, it was not so weak as to require (E) demonstrably weak, it was not weak enough that it required D
22. The Emperor Augustus, it appears, commissioned an idealized sculptured portrait, the features of which are so unrealistic as to constitute what one scholar calls an “artificial face.” (A) so unrealistic as to constitute (B) so unrealistic they constituted (C) so unrealistic that they have constituted (D) unrealistic enough so that they constitute (E) unrealistic enough so as to constitute A
BAD Example: 24. Several years ago the diet industry introduced a variety of appetite suppressants, but some of these drugs caused stomach disorders severe enough to have them banned by the Food and Drug Administration. (A) stomach disorders severe enough to have them (B) stomach disorders that were severe enough so they were (C) stomach disorders of such severity so as to be (D) such severe stomach disorders that they were (E) such severe stomach disorders as to be D
10. Students in the metropolitan school district lack math skills to such a large degree as to make it difficult to absorb them into a city economy becoming ever more dependent on information-based industries. (A) lack math skills to such a large degree as to make it difficult to absorb them into a city economy becoming (B) lack math skills to a large enough degree that they will be difficult to absorb into a city’s economy that becomes (C) lack of math skills is so large as to be difficult to absorb them into a city’s economy that becomes (D) are lacking so much in math skills as to be difficult to absorb into a city’s economy becoming (E) are so lacking in math skills that it will be difficult to absorb them into a city economy becoming E
14. Unlike a hurricane, which can be observed from within, a tornado is so small that such a study has not been practical. (A) that such a study has not been practical (B) that studying it that way has not been impractical (C) for such studies as this to have been impractical (D) as to not make such a study practical (E) as to be impractical of study A
237. Although schistosomiasis is not often fatal, it is so debilitating that it has become an economic drain on many developing countries. (A) it is so debilitating that it has become an economic (B) it is of such debilitation, it has become an economical (C) so debilitating is it as to become an economic (D) such is its debilitation, it becomes an economical (E) there is so much debilitation that it has become an economical A
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