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103.     Yellow jackets number among the 900 or so species of the world's social wasps, wasps living in a highly cooperative and organized society where thev consist almost entirely of females—the queen and her sterile female workers.

(A)          wasps living in a highly cooperative and organized society where they consist almost entirely of

(B)          wasps that live in a highly cooperative and organized society consisting almost entirely of

(C)          which means they live in a highly cooperative and organized society, almost all

(D)          which means that their society is highly cooperative, organized, and it is almost entirely

(E)          living in a society that is highly cooperative, organized, and it consists of almost all

Idiom; Logical predication; Rhetorical construction

This sentence identifies yellow jackets as one of 900 types of social wasps and provides an explanation of the term social wasps. In this explanation, the
society or population—not the individual wasps themselves—consists almost entirely of females. The three descriptors of social wasps (cooperative,
organized, and consisting almost entirely of females) are most effectively expressed in parallel structures.

A    They, referring to wasps, is an incorrect subject for consist.

B    Correct. The three descriptors of the wasp society are in parallel form, and consisting properly modifies society.

C    The sentence structure makes it unclear what almost all females describes.

D    And it is ...
                    violates the parallelism of the three descriptors of social wasps.

E    And it consists ... violates the parallelism of the three descriptors.

The correct answer is B.

不知道有没有人可以帮我解释一下这个句子的结构，还有他说的平行，b里没有平行啊

yj number among ....wasps,wasps...

后面那个wasps....是前面一个分句的wasps的同位语，

答案里面说的平行，是指highly coporative 和organized平行（three descriptors of society)

这个题主要注意 是socity 来consist of而不是they(指代wasps)就行了。

谢谢了啊 明白了

The three descriptors of social wasps (cooperative,
organized, and consisting almost entirely of females) are most effectively expressed in parallel structures.

不好意思我还没有弄明白，解释里说的平行是指功能上的平行吧，即都是修饰SOCIETY，是这个意思吗？