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A Harvard anthropologist has proposed that using fire to cook food could be dated back to almost two million years and that it could explain hominid features like having a large brain and small teeth.

A  using fire to cook food could be dated back to almost two million years and that it could explain hominid features like having

B  the use of fire to cook food could date back almost two million years and could explain such hominid features as

C  cooking food with fire could date back to almost two million Years, explaining hominid features like

D  fire used to cook food could date back almost two million years ,explaining hominid features such as having.

E  fire used for cooking food could be dated back to almost two million years and explain hominid features like.

答案是B，请问C为什么 不对？谢谢！

我感觉是因为explaining所修饰的部分不清晰，到底是讲Harvard anthropologist所发现的情况能够去explain还是Harvard anthropologist发现情况的这个事件本身能够去explain。

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句子的原意应该是前者，即Harvard anthropologist所发现的情况能够去explain，而不是发现这个动作本身explain了什么。不过因为explaining跟在整个句子后面，造成指代不清。cooking food with fire这个短语看我看来也是正确的讲法，所以错不在这个短语，而在explaining

原句重心是use fire...C 的重心cook food...改变重心

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你帮过我~呵呵~

XDF语法老师讲过动名词在GMAT中很少选，因为会有歧义（作为中国人我一直没感到，但觉得此理论还比较管用，而且在OG中也有过类似排除DOING的官方解释）而且Like在GMAT中不做举例使用，like像...为口语，

SO，相比B肯定不能选C

C中的like不能用作举例的

我選了B，但是對date back以及時間狀語的的用法很疑惑，這裡難道不用be dated back to xxx years ago麽？

Yeah, totally agree.

from Webster:

date
    

date2
                                                    S3
                                                    W3

1write date [transitive]TMC
                                                    to write or print the date on something:

a newspaper dated November 23, 1963

Make sure you sign and date it at the bottom.

2find age [transitive]
                                                    to find out when something old was made or formed:

The rocks are dated by examining the fossils found in the same layer.

radiocarbon dating

3old-fashioned [intransitive]
                                                            if clothing, art etc dates, it begins to look
                                                        old-fashioned: (totally confused me)

His designs are so classic, they've hardly dated at all.

➔
                                                                dated

4relationship [transitive]
                                                    American English
                                                    to have a romantic relationship with someone [= go out with]:

Is he still dating Sarah?

5show somebody's age [transitive]
                                                    if something that you say, do, or wear dates you, it shows that you are fairly old:

Yes, I remember the moon landings - that dates me, doesn't it?

NN please helps !