51. A new study suggests that the conversational pace of everyday life may be so brisk it hampers the ability of some children for distinguishing discrete sounds and words and, the result is, to make sense of speech.
(B) that it hampers the ability of some children to distinguish discrete sounds and words and, as a result, to make
这题B是正确答案,原句是错的。
官方关于A的解释为:For is the wrong preposition to follow ability; the phrase and, the result, is introduces a new clause which indicates that children’s inability to distinguish sounds enables them to make sense of speech.
这个解释如果把中间那段去掉,即‘the phrase and, the result, is introduces a new clause which indicates that’我还能理解因为后面的to没有和前面的平行,从意思上讲的确有‘indicates that children’s inability to distinguish sounds enables them to make sense of speech.’ 但我想不明白的是这和插入语the result is有什么关系呢?
根据插入语的作用,请lz想想原句中the result is的result是指的什么?也就是解释中的这句话:the result, is introduces a new clause which indicates that children’s inability to distinguish sounds enables them to make sense of speech. 句子的意思就变成了是前面的inability to distinguish导致了后面的to make a sense of speech。
而正确的句子意思应该是the conversational pace of everyday life hampers the ability of some children导致了后面的make sense of speech。