GMATPrep TEST 1 verbal-32

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

a. that creatures of the seabed were suffering form dwindling food supplies, possibly resulting from increasing

b that creatures of the seabed were suffering because food supplies were dwindling, possibly as a result of an increase in

为什么选b?

a有两个问题

1) dwindling food supplies中的dwindling到底修饰dwindling还是supplies？有歧义

2) increasing sea surface temperatures中的increasing也一样，到底修饰sea还是surface还是temperatures？

B就不存在这样的问题。

同意楼上的1意见。但对于2由一些想法，还请姐姐指正。

increasing一个现在分词在此作为一个形容词成分，sea surface名词作定语，应该没有问题吧？此处若设置考点，应该是把increasing改为increasingly。

一点想法，我们多讨论。