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Dax · 发表于 2020-8-29 10:24:31

1. LESS AN THAN IT IS According to some anthropologists, the long-standing Western obsession with cultivating lawns is less an aesthetic choice than a genetically coded preference, inherited from early humans who lived in the savannas of East Africa, grassy areas in which inhabitants could not only forage freely but also spot approaching enemies from a great distance.

A. lawns is less an aesthetic choice than a genetically coded preference,
B. lawns is less an aesthetic choice than it is a genetically coded preference that had been
C. lawns is less of an aesthetic choice than it is a genetically coded preference, and it was
D. lawns, less of an aesthetic choice than a genetically coded preference that had been
E. lawns, less of an aesthetic choice than a genetically coded preference,

[size=14.6667px]正确答案是b，句意上也说得过去，但是感觉that had been结构不太对啊？求大神讲解

Alaska17 · 发表于 2020-8-29 10:51:07

哪位能分析下最后在ab里选的时候，怎么个思路。
还有就是, 如果take A literally, 按语法，inherited修饰preference还是obsession?

小小豆豆酱 · 发表于 2020-8-29 12:50:10

人类学家认为obsession 是一种preference，而不是一种choice
that 从句是修饰a genetically coded preference
用had been 是因为是在人类居住在Afirica之前就inherited了所以这里用had been

为啥than后面的it is不能省略呢？感觉省略了也没有歧义啊？

ST5 · 发表于 2020-9-2 23:01:16

Alaska17 发表于 2020-8-29 10:51
哪位能分析下最后在ab里选的时候，怎么个思路。
还有就是, 如果take A literally, 按语法，inherited修饰pr ...

这题确实很迷。。。SVO + V-ed不管有没有逗号都是修饰最近的noun或者noun phrase
https://gmatclub.com/forum/verb-ed-modifiers-vs-verb-ing-modifiers-125611.html
所以我不觉得A里面的inheritedxxx是在修饰obession。

ST5 · 发表于 2020-9-2 23:05:42

小小豆豆酱发表于 2020-8-29 12:50
人类学家认为obsession 是一种preference，而不是一种choice
that 从句是修饰a genetically coded preferen ...

it is 是可以省略的。
sub is less noun than noun
OR
sub is less noun than sub is noun
这题我觉得A好像也是可以的。。。

https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/35211/using-the-pattern-less-noun-phrase-than-noun-phrase

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