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求问一道平行题 from 700-800 club

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发表于 2019-3-13 20:52:03 | 只看该作者 回帖奖励 |倒序浏览 |阅读模式
Rather than accept the conventional wisdom that the earth was flat, Christopher Columbus was sent by the king and queen of Spain to see if he could reach India by traveling west.

• Rather than accept the conventional wisdom that the earth was flat, Christopher Columbus was sent by the king and queen of Spain to see if he could reach India by traveling west.
• Rather than accepting the conventional wisdom that the earth was flat, Christopher Columbus was sent by the king and queen of Spain to see if he could reach India by sailing west.
• Instead of accepting the conventional wisdom that the earth was flat, Christopher Columbus sailed west to see whether he could reach India, having been sent by the king and queen of Spain.
• Rather than accept the conventional wisdom that the earth was flat, Christopher Columbus sailed west to see whether he could reach India, having been sent by the king and queen of Spain.
• Instead of accepting the conventional wisdom that the earth was flat, Christopher Columbus was sent by the king and queen of Spain to sail west to see if he could reach India.
这个题目。。其实按照优选rather than 和 if 不表示是否来做是没有啥问题的。。。
然而。。。我在做题的时候D rather than 后面跟了个accept 这个我当时一下子就给排除了。。。扫了一眼发现后面还有诡异的,having done。。然后就选成B了
我有三个问题,
(1)为什么是accept??至少也应该是过去时或者三单之类的吧
(2)rather than 的平行是怎么用的? 比如 B 的rather 后面跟ing 这种,我搜了一下发现prep中一道也是这么用的。。。
(3)instead of 和 rather than中优选rather than这个规则是正确的吗?有反例吗?
万分感谢!!!!!
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发表于 2019-3-14 09:06:09 | 只看该作者
我发现你提问的题目都是好题啊,是非常好的可以用来演示出题人思路的题目,替大家先谢谢你。

这道题首先应该通过语义把选项限制在C和D中,因为rather than accept that earth is flat或者instead of accepting that earth is flat作为modifier,应该修饰一个主动认为earth is not flat的人。

看A选项,这句话说哥伦布认为地球不是平的,所以他被国王和王后send去探索,你不觉得这么表达不太合乎逻辑吗?我们应该说“哥伦布不信地球是平的,所以他去探索”或者说“国王和王后不信地球是平的,所以他们派哥伦布去探索”。所以A和D比较的话,D更好。C和E比较的话,C更好。A和B比较的话,A更好,因为rather than是一个连词,后面可以接任何东西,能直接用动词原形的时候就没必要用accepting,并且accepting和主句的动词不平行。所以D>A>B,C>E。

C和D比较的话,我们还是看句意。原题的句意是要表达“哥伦布没accept,而是去sail了”,我们要比较accept和sail这两个动词,如果选C的话虽然也没什么歧义,但是它比较的是accepting和sail,instead of虽然不是那么严格的比较提示词,但是相比之下D还是更贴近原句想表达的意思。

回答lz的三个问题:
(1)manhattan prep上的讲师解答过这个问题,rather than后面如果直接跟动词的话得用原型,没啥原因,就是英语习惯。
(2)rather than后面跟verbing肯定是可以的啊,但是这道题用accept更好。
(3)是有这个说法,如果instead of的选项没有在其他方面完胜rather than的选项,实在选不出来的话选rather than的胜算高一些。
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