GWD31-Q15 我還是有問題?

15. GWD31-Q15

Reptiles, by drawing their body heat directly from the Sun rather than burning calories to generate it, can survive on ten percent of the nourishment that a mammal of similar size would normally require

A.      rather than burning calories to generate it

B.      rather than the generation of body heat by burning calories

C.      and not from generating it by burning calories

D.      instead of by burning calories for generating it

E.       instead of body heat generated by burning calories

今天在寫的時候做了這題,也查到了很多解釋, 如google查到的劉易斯的博客 http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4edde3060100bmux.html

還有GWD 討論串  http://forum.chasedream.com/dispbbs.asp?BoardID=23&ID=131595&replyID=&skin=0

      http://forum.chasedream.com/dispbbs.asp?BoardID=23&ID=133553&replyID=&skin=0

      http://forum.chasedream.com/dispbbs.asp?BoardID=23&ID=133553&replyID=&skin=0

 每個解釋都說答案應該是A

但我有個疑問? A選項的it不是典型的指代錯誤嗎?

他沒有辦法指代到前面的calories(因為是複數), 反而會指代到sun

我一開始就把A選項刪了...因為it指代感覺上是個大考點完全不可違背..

後來選了E

我是這樣想的,如果把E選項放進去看

Reptiles, by drawing their body heat
                directly from the Sun 
                instead of body heat
                    generated by burning calories, can survive on ten percent of the nourishment that a mammal of similar size would normally require

把劃線部分視為定語修飾heat , 那麼instead of就對稱地連接了兩個body heat 這樣感覺上也不錯哩

不知道有沒有人跟我一樣作到這題的? 一起來討論吧!!

"it" refers to "body heat", not "sun". E is wrong because what goes after instead of should be parallel to "drawing...". you can't skip "drawing their" and start from "body heat".

Thank u pinklover!

But I still wonder if "it" could refer to body heat explicitly since "sun" is apparently closer to "it".

在指代原則中

有一條就近指代原則:當一個句子中出現兩個以上的複數名詞時,複數代詞優先指代離它近的複數

名詞,這條原則同樣適用於單數名詞.

Also, I guess "instead of "could be used between two nouns cause I found a sentence in prep:

Earlier , the Babylonians had attempted to map the world , but they presented it in the form of a

flattened disc rather than a sphere , which was the form adopted by Ptolemy .

Earlier , the Babylonians had attempted to map the world , but they presented it in the form of a

flattened disc rather than a sphere , which was the form adopted by Ptolemy .

Honestly, I know the answer should be A, but I just don't find it compelling....

Tks for reply^^

You are right that "it" can also refer to the "sun", so it's potentially ambiguous. But in the question, all the other choices are grammatically wrong. So it's the only choice that's correct (at least grammatically)

Earlier , the Babylonians had attempted to map the world , but they presented it in the form of a

flattened disc rather than a sphere , which was the form adopted by Ptolemy.

means

flattened disc rather than [presented it in the form of] a sphere , which was the form adopted by Ptolemy.

but in the titled sentence, you will have to rewrite it as follows, which is not the intended meaning.

I see what's wrong with me.....always ignored the understood part....

Thank u for ur patient reply!!