SC大全606，S19-7之解答

7. Research during the past several decades on the nature of language and the processes that produce and make it understandable has revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity.
(A) that produce and make it understandable has revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity
(B) of producing and understanding it have revealed not underlying simplicity but great complexity
(C) by which it is produced and understood has revealed not underlying simplicity but great complexity
(D) by which it is produced and understood have revealed great complexity rather than underlying simplicity
(E) by which one produces and understands it have revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity

问了一个老外，他对GMAT没什么了解，仅仅从语感和考题的目的出发。他选择了A.原因如下：
1、A是更加common的回答,while C是一个更formal的回答
2、A是北美英语更加倾向的回答，主动，有力而且直接，而C是一个有些太正式而显得wordy的回答，比较British英语化
3、
A的弱点是instead of，他说老美确实不喜欢instead of，更宁愿用rather than，因为前者有点太随便。这里it就是要省略，念起来顺；C的弱点除了by
which（下面讲)，还有就是not...but结构，这个结构给他的感觉好像上来是reveal的是自己不要的然后才是要的，感觉很差，就这点，配合
it is produced and understood，给他的感觉很weak。看来ETS所说的主动优先有道理，比较美国化
4、by which和that。他说美国人更喜欢that，因为更直接更有力：that produce and make it understandable用that一个词替换了by which it is四个词，效率高，而且念起来更加顺口。
5、
C和A各有微小差异。A只有一个弱点即instead
of，而C的弱点更明显，但更清晰（就像中文说：我吃的比你多，和“我吃的饭比你吃的饭多”）。就看谁是受众，如果是英国人，是对一个律师文件，C好点，但
如果是面向北美人，用于商业文件，建议A就可，足够清楚但又不会像C那样清晰的过份.