一道所谓真题（3）

3. Rock samples taken from the remains of an asteroid about twice the size of the 6-nuke-wide asteroid that eradicated the dinosaurs has been dated to be 3.47 billion years old and thus is evidence of the earliest known asteroid impact on Earth.

B. has been dated at 3.47 billion years old and thus

C. have been dated to be 3.47billion years old and thus are

D. have been dated as being 3.47 billion years old and thus

E. have been dated at 3.47billion years old and thus are

C和E哪个对？

Given an infinite amount of time, even a probability of ten to the forty thousandth would be possible. We do not, however, have an infinite amount of time. The earth has been dated to be 4.6 billion years old. But until 3.98 billion years ago, the earth was too hot to produce life. The oldest fossils on record date back 3.85 billion years ago. Understanding that there could be older fossils that have not yet been found, but not calculating that possibility into this equation, we are left with a 130 million year time frame for an "accident" to occur. This indeed is impossible. Therefore since life could not have, mathematically, been accidentally formed, there must have been a creator. This creator is God.

Living snails were C14 dated at 2,300 and 27,000 years old

above are from google......no answer...

晕了，居然想到 Rock samples are evidence ---，可能不行？

OG中常出现考点，“主语＋be＋宾语（名词）”其中主语、宾语应单复数对应？

想起了OG14:

Paleontologists believe that fragments of a primate jawbone unearthed in Burma and estimated at 40 to 44 million years old provide evidence of a crucial step along the evolutionary path that led to human beings.

(A) at 40 to 44 million years old provide evidence of

(B) as being 40 to 44 million years old provides evidence of

(C) that it is 40 to 44 million years old provides evidence of what was

(D) to be 40 to 44 million years old provide evidence of（D）

(E) as 40 to 44 million years old provides evidence of what was

版主这个例子好啊，确实可以解决真题3中C选项的前半部分，但上例谓语动词　为provide，与evidence搭配没问题

真题3中C选项　后半部分用　are　作谓语，能接不可数名词evidence（意为"证据”）么？

gemj后来告诉我，没有这样的对应，只能先记住了

嘿, 我查了一个非常老版的字典--朗文词典的第一版. 里面有:

The unusual shape of this pot dates it at about AD 400.

我觉得这应该是正确的例句,所以E应该是争取答案.

再加上我们的heartstring,以及现代的简单语法,可能大家都会觉得date..to be顺口, 更有肯能那是ETS设下的陷阱了.

希望还有人翻查字典提供权威依据.

补充250 有一题涉及date 用法

218. The domesticated camel, which some scholars date around the twelfth century B.C., was the key to the development of the spice trade in the ancient world.

(A) The domesticated camel, which some scholars date

(B) The domesticated camel, which some scholars having thought to occur

(C) Domesticating the camel, dated by some scholars at

(D) The domestication of the camel, thought by some scholars to have occurred（D）

(E) The camel’s domestication, dated by some scholars to have been

jnlvo 的语法大全简注里对date  地解释：