GWD-31-Q15

Reptiles, by drawing their body heat directly from the Sun rather than burning calories to generate it, can survive on ten percent of the nourishment that a mammal of similar size would normally require

A: rather than burning calories to generate it

B: rather than the generation of body heat by burning calories

C: and not from generating it by burning calories

D: instead of by burning calories for generating it

E: instead of body heat generated by burning calories

我选A，答案选E.

我也选的A。说选E的理由是平行结构，可是哪跟哪平行啊？

by drawing body heat from the sun, instead of generating body heat by burning calories，这才平行啊。E不是也很乱吗，前面是分词，后面又是名词的

而且A意思也通啊，通过日照获得体温，而不是燃烧热量产生体温

有愿意讨论的吗？

Vote A！

i think the answer is E. cuz' the "it" in choice A has no reference. you cannot use "it" to refer to the heat at that time. that's different heat!  there are some other questions about "it" in gwd.

although rather than is better than instead of. but its not 100% correct! still depends on the sentence and the usage.!

open to discuss

支持楼上的，it是绝对错误，instead of和rather than是相对错误

吐血了，因为觉得A比较顺直接选了它。

我觉得E)完整的结构是, by drawing their body heat directly from Sun instead of by drawing their body heat generated by burning calories。唯一的问题是这能不能省略掉?

B错在哪了呢？

做题的时候觉得IT 指代不对

rahther than 又 优于 instead of ...

C 又错的离谱。。只剩B了