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Yellow jackets number among the 900 or so species of the world’s social wasps, wasps living in a highly cooperative and organized society where they consist almost entirely of females—the queen and her sterile female workers.

1. wasps living in a highly cooperative and organized society where they consist almost entirely of


2. wasps that live in a highly cooperative and organized society consisting almost entirely of


3. which means they live in a highly cooperative and organized society, almost all


4. which means that their society is highly cooperative, organized, and it is almost entirely


5. living in a society that is highly cooperative, organized, and it consists of almost all

答案是b

小声得问：为什么a不对啊，请教大家，先谢过了

Yellow jackets - 主语；

number - 谓语，解释为：共计；

A的错误在于定从的where不合适；定从they指代不清

Choice A: They refers to wasps. so, that wasps consist of female is not logical.

Choice B: That society consist of female makes sense.

强，这点是这题最tricky的地方！

谢谢大家～～非常明白了

为什么where在这里不合适呢？

大全506：

1.        Minnesota is the only one of the contiguous forty-eight states that still has a sizable wolf population, and where this predator remains the archenemy of cattle and sheep.

(A) that still has a sizable wolf population, and where

(B) that still has a sizable wolf population, where

(C) that still has a sizable population of wolves, and where

(D) where the population of wolves is still sizable;（E）

(E) where there is still a sizable population of wolves and where

大全783：

1.        The most favorable locations for the growth of glaciers, rather than being the cold, dry polar regions, would be instead the cool, moist middle latitudes, where there is abundant precipitation and where it is cold enough to allow some snow to accumulate year by year.

(A) glaciers, rather than being the cold, dry polar regions, would be instead the cool, moist middle latitudes

(B) glaciers are not the cold, dry polar regions but the cool, moist middle latitudes

(C) glaciers are the cool, moist middle latitudes rather than the cold, dry polar regions

(D) glaciers, instead of being the cold, dry polar regions, would be the cool, moist middle latitudes（B）

(E) glaciers are, instead of the cold, dry polar regions, rather the cool, moist middle latitudes

那請問E錯在?

there is a big error not discussed:

in this question, noun + doing  is absolutely different from noun + that + clause!    that is the point!

A中的they应该是it.