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Q11:

Retailers reported moderate gains in their November sales, as much because of their sales of a year earlier being so bad as that shoppers were getting a head start on buying their holiday gifts.E

1. of their sales of a year earlier being so bad as that
2. of their sales a year earlier having been as bad as because
3. of their sales a year earlier being as bad as because
4. their sales a year earlier had been so bad as because
5. their sales of a year earlier were as bad as that

　　　答案Ｄ怎么解释啊？划线部分什么意思？哪位好心人帮忙翻译一下．

Q28:

The coyote is one of several recent ecological success stories:  along with the white-tailed deer, the moose, and other species that are enlarging their natural domains, they have established themselves as supreme adapters in an era when the capability to adjust to the environmental changes wrought by human beings has created a whole new class of dominant large mammals.C

1. they have established themselves as supreme adapters in an era when the capability
2. they have established themselves as being supreme adapters in an era when being able
3. it has established itself as a supreme adapter in an era when to be able
4. it has established itself as being a supreme adapter in an era when its ability
5. it has established itself as a supreme adapter in an era when the ability

　　　答案Ｅ后面when the ablity ~~~~~~mamals 也不明白其意思．

Q11.考点就是idiom:as much...as以及相应的平行，还有就是because和because of 的选择．because of后跟名词性成分，这里原因是一个过程，because用的更干净．

意思我觉的可以理解为：．．．既因为．．．又因为，不过不必要把中文的意思想的那么通，领会句子的逻辑意思就可以了．

Q28.它的这种可以调节自然变化（本来是人干的！）能力已经创造了一种大型的老强悍的哺乳动物．．．

这翻译的苦啊，这是语法题又不是逻辑或阅读题．．．考试的时候千万别想太多．．．

明白了! 真是太感谢啦!!