Yellow jackets number among the 900 or so species of the world's social wasps, wasps living in a highly cooperative and organized society where they consist almost entirely of females—the queen and her sterile female workers.
Yellow jackets number among the 900 or so species of the world’s social wasps, wasps living in a highly cooperative and organized society where they consist almost entirely of females—the queen and her sterile female workers.
(A) wasps living in a highly cooperative and organized society where they consist almost entirely of
(B) wasps that live in a highly cooperative and organized society consisting almost entirely of
(C) which means they live in a highly cooperative and organized society, almost all
(D) which means that their society is highly cooperative, organized, and it is almost entirely
(E) living in a society that is highly cooperative, organized, and it consists of almost all
如果你的问题是为什么
A.wasps living in a highly cooperative and organized society where they consist almost entirely of
中living是修饰wasps,那么在这里wasps是重复了逗号前的wasps,说明它是作为同位语来补充说明wasps,所以living一定就近修饰它,来表达social wasps是怎么样生活的。
E.living in a society that is highly cooperative, organized, and it consists of almost all
如果你问的是这个living判断是就近修饰wasps还是修饰主句的主语的话,那么这个是没有绝对的,因为现在分词紧跟在主句之后有两种情况:
一种它是做前面整个句子的结果状语,即”因为yellow jackets是900多种wasps之一,所以...“,但是显然这个逻辑并不合适。
第二种就是就近修饰前面的名词,语法上是可以的。
但是E有几个问题:1.that is highly cooperative, organized是非常wordy的用法;2.and it consists...在这里引入了一个独立的句子,使得it consists和yellow jackets number...两句句子平行了,这两句话之间没有任何关系,平行是没有必要的,而且可以用that consists...直接定语从句来修饰society更好。所以E的问题还是很多的。