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别挣了~ 这是官方题,出现在Prep2012_Pack1_SC里面
Prep2012-Pack1-SC-073 VSC004703 hard
Although improved efficiency in converting harvested trees into wood products may reduce harvest rates, it will stimulate demand by increasing supply and lowering prices, thereby boosting consumption.
A. in converting harvested trees into wood products may reduce harvest rates, it will stimulate demand by increasing supply and lowering prices, thereby boosting B. in converting harvested trees into wood products may reduce harvest rates, demand will be stimulated because of increasing supply and lowering prices, which boost C. of converting harvested trees into wood products may reduce harvest rates, it stimulate demand by increasing supply and lowering prices, which boosts D. of harvested trees being converted into wood products may reduce harvest rates, it will stimulate demand, because it will increase supply and lower prices, thereby boosting E. when harvested trees are converted into wood products may reduce harvest rates, demand will be stimulated because of increasing supply and lowering prices, which boost
Verb form; Grammatical construction; Idiom
The correct version of the sentence must clarify the sequence of two effects of improved efficiency in converting harvested trees into wood products: first, stimulating demand and second boosting consumption. The first of these effects is itself caused by increasing supply and lowering prices.
A. Correct. The subject of the independent clause it clearly restates the subject of the dependent clause efficiency, and the use of active voice in both clauses clarifies the although relationship announced at the beginning of the sentence. B. The passive voice in the independent clause obscures the sentence's meaning, making the cause of increasing supply and lowering prices unclear; the relationship between efficiency and demand is similarly unclear. C. The preposition of is not idiomatic in the context of this sentence; the referent of the relative pronoun which is ambiguous. D. The passive phrase of harvested trees being converted is wordy and unclear. E. This sentence obscures the identity of the efficiency that may reduce harvest rates; the passive construction in the independent clause causes further ambiguity. (What will stimulate demand? How are increasing supply and lowering prices causally connected to demand?)
The correct answer is A. |
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