这是语法教程SECTION20的第1题
1.The artist Renoir's last word was"flowers," spoken as they arranged a bouquet of roses just picked from his garden in a vase on his bedroom windowsill.
A. as they arranged a bouquet of roses just picked from his garden
B. as a bouquet of roses had been just picked from his garden and was being arranged
C. as a bouquet of roses just picked from his garden was being arranged
D. during the arrangement of a bouquet of roses just picked from his garden
E. while they arranged a bouquet of roses that had just been picked from his garden
答案是C。A与E我知道是错了,可是B、C中的was being有这种语法现象么?到底为啥选C啊?
2. 语法教程SECTION19 (P190)的第17题、
Many of them chiseled from solid rock centuries ago, the mountainous regions of northern Ethiopia are dotted with hundreds of monasteries.
现在争议就在D还是E。它们只差了一个词,D是WHICH,E是THEM。小女子的意见倾向于D。不过答案写的是E。不知,各位牛人怎么看?给个指点咧。谢了!
D. The mountainous regions of northern Ethiopia are dotted with hundreds of monasteries, many of which are chiseled from solid rock centuries ago.
E. The mountainous regions of northern Ethiopia are dotted with hundreds of monasteries, many of them are chiseled from solid rock centuries ago.
语法教程Section 23(P218)的第15题
The brain is something of a stimulus-reduction system, a mean to reduce, in order to comprehend, the nearly infinite amount of stimuli that reach the senses at any given moment.
A. a mean to reduce, in order to comprehend, the nearly infinite amount
B. a mean to reduce, in order to comprehend, the nearly infinite number
此题答案是B。但为何不选A?请赐教!
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