og11-3 新问题

3. Diabetes, together with its serious complications, ranks as the nation's third leading cause of death, surpassed only by heart disease and cancer.
(A) ranks as the nation's third leading cause of death, surpassed only
(B) rank as the nation's third leading cause of death, only surpassed
(C) has the rank of the nation's third leading cause of death, only surpassed
(D) are the nation's third leading causes of death, surpassed only
(E) have been ranked as the nation's third leading causes of death, only surpassed

不明白结构:  S, 插入语, VO,  surpassed only by heart disease and cancer.

surpassed 应该是修饰主语diabetes的啊 不应该有and 连接吗? 我觉得 ranks ... and is surpassed...更好.

请大家指教!

S, 插入语, VO,  surpassed only by heart disease and cancer

也可以这样

surpassed only by heart disease and cancer,S, 插入语, VO

强调先是被超越，才列第三。

如果按照LZ的意思，用AND的话，是表示，位列第三并且被2种超越。感觉逻辑上没有上面的更好。有点语义重复？

欢迎NN们指正。

我个人的看法：

过去分词和现在分词的差别，一个在于时态，现在分词修饰一直持续的动作或者正在发生的动作；过去分词修饰已完成的动作。另一个是语态，即现在分词表主动，过去分词表被动。

至于从句，应该用于修饰成分复杂的句子吧。

关于这个题：Diabetes, together with its serious complications, ranks as the nation's third leading cause of death, surpassed only by heart disease and cancer.

我的看法是surpassed...句应该是表被动的，意为被列在心脏病和癌症之后，因此用被动语态修饰Diabetes，ranks句的补充说明。如果用了and，就改变了句子意思，因为逻辑上rank句与surpassed句没有并列关系。