补充题200

200. Although the bite of brown recluse spiders are rarely fatal, they cause chronic flesh wounds, posing the greatest danger to the infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to its poison.
(A) brown recluse spiders are rarely fatal, they cause chronic flesh wounds, posing the greatest danger to the infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to its
(B) brown recluse spiders are rarely fatal, they cause chronic flesh wounds and pose the greatest danger to the infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to their
(C) the brown recluse spider is rarely fatal, it causes chronic flesh wounds, posing the greatest danger to the infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to their
(D) the brown recluse spider is rarely fatal, it causes chronic flesh wounds and poses the greatest danger to infants and the elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to its
(E) the brown recluse spider is rarely fatal, they cause chronic flesh wounds, posing the greatest danger to the infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to its

这题的答案排除法没问题,不过能讲讲infants and the elderly么?有什么特殊原因把the放在elderly前面?

我觉得是泛指的问题, 名词的泛指不加the, 或者用the + adj.来泛指一群人.

infants 和the elderly应该都是泛指一群人，

the infants and elderly变成了特指的婴儿和泛指的老人.

因为elderly是形容词，所以要加the. 加了the的形容词才可以认为是名词，和名词平行。

如果是两个名词泛指的平行，那么就都不加。e.g. infants and adults

如果是两个形容词泛指的平行，要么都加，要么都不加。the poor and the rich, 或, poor and rich。

一语惊醒梦中人!!

谢谢GG,我再次进入糊涂状态了