XDF补充教材/SC/SECTION1-22

22. Although films about the American West depict coyotes as solitary animals howling mournfully on the tops of distant hills, in reality these gregarious creatures live in stable groups that occupy the same territory for long periods.
(A) films about the American West depict coyotes as solitary animals howling mournfully on the tops of distant hills
(B) in films about the American West coyotes are depicted to be solitary animals that howl mournfully on the tops of distant hills
(C) coyotes are depicted as solitary animals howling mournfully on the tops of distant hills in films about the American West
(D) films about the American West depict coyotes as if they were solitary, mournfully howling animals on the tops of distant hills.
(E) films about the American West depict coyotes to be solitary and mournfully howling animals on the tops of distant hills

我的答案是C.

理由:

B/D/E都很容易排除.A.C的唯一区别在于主动和被动的区别.可能有人会解释主动>被动,所以选择A.可是我不这么看.我觉得C好.因为未画线部分有these gregarious creatures,如果画线部分以coyotes作为主语,指代更明确.

C有歧义，所以不行，

Choice A is best. In choice B, depicted to be is unidiomatic. The phrase in films about the American West is misplaced in choice C so that one cannot tell whether it indicates where the distant hills are, where the animals howl, or where coyotes are depicted as solitary creatures; the phrase should appear next to the word it is meant to modify. Choice D is wordy and awkward, and choice E contains the fault depict…to be. This question is a little more difficult than the average.

这道题目我看懂了, 谢谢!