以下是引用songlovegt在2009-3-5 8:48:00的发言:再来两个大全例子放在一起讨论
386. In Japan elderly people are treated with far greater respect than most Western countries.
(A) most Western countries
(B) most Western countries do
(C) most Western countries are
(D) they do in most Western countries(E)
(E) they are in most Western countries
they 特定指代 elderly people, in japan 作状语为非限制成分修饰
这儿为什么没有使用 those, 我认为 elderly people 是泛指,并没有限定修饰如 elderly people in Japan, elderly people living in Japan. 即便是特指同一批日本老人也说的过去。
393. In one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, fought at Sharpsburg, Maryland, on September 17, 1862, four times as many Americans were killed as would later be killed on the beaches of Normandy during D-Day.
(A) Americans were killed as
(B) Americans were killed than
(C) Americans were killed than those who
(D) more Americans were killed as there(A)
(E) more Americans were killed as those who
答案中 as 后省略了主语,显然认可主语相同 Americans,
American 被认为是泛指,( In one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, fought at Sharpsburg, Maryland, on September 17, 1862, ) 是非限定修饰成分。
再回到这个题
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There are hopeful signs that we are shifting away from our heavy reliance on fossil fuels: more
than ten times as much energy is generated through wind power now than it was in 1990.
(A) generated through wind power now than it was
(B) generated through wind power now as it was
(C) generated through wind power now as was the case
(D) now generated through wind power as it was
(E) now generated through wind power than was the case
在这儿为什么energy 就一定是特指“该energy(现在generate出来的)”? 在这儿为什么 now 就一定是 限定性修饰成分呢?
对比以上题目,如何判断比较主体的修饰成分是否是限定修饰呢?特别是定语和状语成分?