OG11紫色59题

59. Neanderthals had a vocal tract that resembled those of the apes and so were probably without language，a shortcoming that may explain why they were supplanted by our own species．

(A)  Neanderthals had a vocal tract that resembled those of the apes

(B)  Neanderthals had a vocal tract resembling an ape's

(C)  The vocal tracts of Neanderthals resembled an ape's

(D)  The Neanderthal's vocal tracts resembled the apes’

(E)  The vocal tracts of the Neanderthals resembled those of the apes

Agreement + Grammatical construction

In the underlined portion of the sentence，the plural pronoun those does not agree with its singular referent，a vocal tract．To correct this error, the clause that resembled those of the apes may be rewritten as a phrase using the singular, resembling an ape's．In this case，ape's vocal tract is understood．

A  Those does not agree with vocal tract; relative clause is wordy and unnecessary．

B  Correct．In this concise sentence，the singular an ape's(vocal tract understood)agrees with a vocal tract．

C  Neanderthals must be the subject of the second verb，were；vocal tracts…were probably without language is illogical；tracts is compared to an ape's (tract)．

D  Vocal tracts cannot logically be the subject of the second verb；Neanderthal's is singular but vocal tracts is plural

E  Making vocal tracts the subject here also makes it the illogical subject of were probably without language．

The correct answer is B．

题干中红色字体部分的意思及结构是什么，在句子中是什么作用。这个结构我见的不多，请大家帮忙告诉我一下是怎么回事.

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