同意6楼。E选项由Despite开头那么后面就应该有转折，感觉如果改成这样就对了：Despite being called a sea, the landlocked Caspian is actually the largest lake on Earth, covering 这里sea和lake是转折（你要么是sea要么是lake，不可能两者同时）。E原句是Despite being called a sea, the largest lake on Earth is actually the landlocked Caspian, covering 这里sea和the landlocked Capian没有逻辑互斥关系，所以读者会expect后半部分是否定句。
我的理解跟你们不太一样:
landlocked Caspian is actually the largest lake on Earth, COVERING more than four times the surface area of its closest rival in size, North America’s Lake Superior.
这里面covering是前半句的结果。如果把前半句改成一个名词，上面这句话可以改为：
the largest lake on Earth LC COVERS more than ......
而并不是covering修饰LC，只不过前半句是主系表结构，抽象成名词短语后仍然是LC.
Manhattan上的原话是“as long as the entire clause converted into a noun phrase could function as the subject of the verb that is now in -ing form.”
参考下面的例句：
原句：Crime has recently decreased in our neighborhood, leading to a rise in property values.
改为：decrease in crime in our neighborhood leads to a rise......
语法上是可以跳跃修饰 the largest lake,但是有几个问题。
1. 这里which covers ,其实真正应该修饰的是 Caspian，而不是the largest lake .
2. 由于which 前面是 the largest lake on Earth, lake 和 earth 都是单数，所以导致which covers 既可以修饰 lake 又可以修饰 earth, 相比而言，会稍微有些模棱两可。
所以综合来看，选择C更好。
如何理解， 正确选项C种的比较?
landlocked Caspian (is actually the largest lake on Earth, ) covering more than four times the surface area of its closest rival in size, North America's Lake Superior.
landlocked Caspian 和the surface area 这个也能比较呀？
另外North America's Lake Superior，同位语要修饰最近的NOUN吧，那最近的就是Size了。
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发表于 2015-4-23 09:19:08
