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各位大侠好, 小弟刚开始做大全, 下面我做错的3道题,似乎以前没有讨论过, 希望大家能给点意见!!

万分感谢

2.   Modern critics are amused by early scholars’ categorizing Tacitus’s Germania as an ethnographic treatise.

(A) scholars’ categorizing Tacitus’s Germania as

(B) scholars’ categorizing Tacitus’s Germania as if

(C) scholars, categorizing of Tacitus’s Germania as

(D) scholars who categorize Tacitus’s Germania as (A)

(E) scholars who categorize Tacitus’s Germania if

此题为什么不能选D?

5.    In presenting his modus vivendi proposal, Lansing implied that the American government accepted the German view that armed merchant vessels were warships: however, when the proposal was dropped by the Wilson administration, it seemed to be reverting to the British view on this question.

(A) when the proposal was dropped by the Wilson administration, it

(B) after it was dropped, the Wilson administration

(C) by dropping the proposal, the Wilson administration

(D) the Wilson administration dropped the proposal when it（C）

(E) when they dropped the proposal, the Wilson administration

此题为什么要选C...我选了A..不太清楚哪里错了...

6.   The 19th-century proponents of the school of thought known as mechanism held that life process are not the products of some mysterious life force, but are the same chemical and physical processes that operate in inorganic systems, which is still a subject of debate between biologists today.

(A) systems, which is still a subject of debate between

(B) systems, which are still debated between

(C) systems still debated among

(D) systems, a theory still debated by（D）

(E) systems, a theory still debated between

debate做动词时只有debated by这种用法吗? 当做名词时可以说a debate between...我说的对吗?

1.  第一，D 的时态不对。early scholars 不可能现在来做这些事情。第二，D 的语言不符合逻辑。Morden critics 只是对 early scholoars把Tacitus’s Germania "规类“为 as an ethnographic treatise 这个事情或者做法感到amusing, 而不是对 categorize Tacitus’s Germania as an ethnographic treatise 这些 early scholars 感到amused.  所以，选D是错误的。

5.  A 中的it 指代不清楚。从题原来句子看，it 应指代 proposal。但是， propsal 又怎么能够 be reverting to the British...?  解释不同。  it 也不可能是后边 to be reverting to the British view on this question 的形式主语，因为，如果是形式主语，那么动词不定式的动作revert由谁来执行就不知道了。所以，单从语法上讲 A 肯定错了。

E 中的They 指代不清楚，因为Wilson administration 强调的更是单体，而不是中间包含的成员，因此，E 错。

这道题事实上考句意的逻辑关联。B 的意思是，after 否决 proposal 后，好像渐渐reverting to the British.....  并且， B中的it 指代不是清楚，好像也可以指 Wilson administration。  D 的意思是当Wilson administration 好像渐渐地 reverting to the British ..... 。这强调的是 droped 这个动作，改变原来句子要表达的重心-- be reverting..... 所以 B、D 都不对。

而 C 在这几个中间最好地表达了意思。by 指“通过.....的方式”，通过否决the proposal, Wilson administration 好像将要转向........    drop 和revert 动作连接紧密，通过seemed 更加使这些动作意思连贯，一气呵成；并且动作的喻意相互包含，很有文采。

6.  我认为答案为 D。 你对debate 的理解太机械化了。debated among people.  debate between A and B.  debate over a buzz word.  语言使非常灵活的。要放到具体的context 中间理解。

非常感谢kevin的帮助, 解答很精彩...看来CD上好人真多呀!! 感动ing~~~

那么第6题既然也可以debated among people..这里为什么要用debated by biologists ?

出题者也可以将这句写成debated among biologists。 对句子的意思没有任何影响。但是，among 和 by 的细微区分还是有的：在这儿 among 强调的是一种客观事实，指biologists 中间有讨论这个theory的事实存在；而 by 则更加强调施动者，就是动作由谁来执行和完成。对theory 的debate 是由biologists 来执行的。

这句话中的debated 是过去分词，它和前边的theory联合起来做独立主格结构，对整个主句做进一步的说明。

非常同意你说的，只是这句话我还是看不太出为什么要强调动作，而不是事实的存在。