[XY05]GWD-V-07new 第13题

Q13:

Like the grassy fields and old pastures that the upland sandpiper needs for feeding and nesting when it returns in May after wintering in the Argentine Pampas, the sandpipers vanishing in the northeastern United States is a result of residential and industrial development and of changes in farming practices.

1. the sandpipers vanishing in the northeastern United States is a result of residential and industrial development and of changes in

2. the bird itself is vanishing in the northeastern United States as a result of residential and industrial development and of changes in

3. that the birds themselves are vanishing in the northeastern United States is due to residential and industrial development and changes to

4. in the northeastern United States, sandpipers’ vanishing is due to residential and industrial development and to changes in

5. in the northeastern United States, the sandpipers’ vanishing, a result of residential and industrial development and changing

答案是B ,

Like the grassy fields and old pastures ......., the bird itself .......这个结构平行吗?

Yes, B is correct.

here it is comparing the disappearing of the grassy fields and old pastures to the bird.