小兰上的一道题

A study of food resources in the North Pacific between 1989 and 1996 revealed that creatures of the seabed were suffering from dwindling food suppliers, possibly resulting from increasing sea surface temperatures during the same period.

1. that creatures of the seabed were suffering from dwindling food suppliers, possibly resulting from increasing
2. that creatures of the seabed were suffering because food suppliers were dwindling, possibly as a result of an increase in
3. that creatures of the seabed were suffering because of food suppliers, which were dwindling possibly as a result of increasing
4. creatures of the seabed that were suffering because of food suppliers, which were dwindling, possibly resulting from an increase in
5. creatures of the seabed that were suffering because food suppliers were dwindling, which possibly result from increasing

答案是B. 在A和b之间犹豫，无法找出充分的理由说服自己。能否请大家解释一下1）from dwindling food suppliers为什么错了2) possibly resulting from increasing - 觉得虽然觉得不如B好，但也不是完全讲不通。。

A不对，关键在resulting from这个不idiomatic。

要么resulting in表示前者造成后者

要么resulted from表示前者因后者而致

A乍一看来真不错，因为suffer from用惯了，但仔细看看会发现suffer from什么呢？是food suppliers吗？不是的，所以suffer后面接because 的短语更合适，因为suffer 的是food suppliers were dwindling这个事实。至于resulting from虽然用的怪，但说实在的你把possibly resulting from increasing sea surface temperatures during the same period.这后半句给美国人看，多半他们也觉得没啥问题。