Research during the past several decades on the nature of language and the processes that produce and make it understandable has revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity.
Research during the past several decades on the nature of language and the processes that produce and make it understandable has revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity.
(A) that produce and make it understandable has revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity
(B) of producing and understanding it have revealed not underlying simplicity but great complexity
(C) by which it is produced and understood has revealed not underlying simplicity but great complexity
(D) by which it is produced and understood have revealed great complexity rather than underlying simplicity
(E) by which one produces and understands it have revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity
给的答案是A 我就是觉得C好像也没错,而且A里面那个produce 和 make 可以公用一个it吗 ?特别是在后面还有一个understandable的情况下?
C is wrong for two reasons:
(1) The subject is research, which is singular, so the verb must be also singular, that is, "has"
(2) Active is better than passive: produce and make it understandable better than is produced and understood
1. SC中從未出現過instead of的正確答案搭配。反而not...but rather than常常是正確答案的慣用結構。
instead出現在正確選項中的,只有單獨作為副詞的用法。
2. C選項子句還原後的「it is produced and understood by processes」個人認為合理。
因為被動句 by + N時,by+N的N也可以傳達「管道」的含意。
比如此正確句子:
「...chimpanzees exhibit the kind of curiosity by which new patterns of behavior and expression can be passed on from one to another by imitation and practice」句意上應該是行為與表達模式被猩猩傳遞,by後面接的應該是管道。如同中文的「透過」