ask og 117

A firm that specializes in the analysis of handwriting claims from a one-page writing sample that it can assess more than three hundred personality traits, including enthusiasm, imagination, and ambition.

(A)   from a one-page writing sample that it can assess.

(B)    from a one-page writing sample it has the abil­ity of assessing

(C)   the ability, from a one-page writing sample, of assessing

(D)   to be able, from a one-page writing sample, to assess

(E)    being able to assess, from a one-page writing sample,

the answer is right ,but why Choice C repeats this second fault and uses the unidiomatic claims the ability?isn't it right to say claim sth ?

From Longman:

1 ▶TRUTH◀

[transitive]to state that something is true, even though it has not been proved
claim (that)
- The company claims that their product 'makes you thin without dieting'.
claim to do/be something
- No responsible therapist will claim to cure your insomnia.I don't claim to be a feminist, but I'd like to see more women in managerial posts.
claim to have done something
- Two young girls claim to have seen the fairies.
claim responsibility/credit (for something) (=say officially that you are responsible for something that has happened)
- The group claimed responsibility for a series of bombings.Opposition leaders will claim victory if the turnout is lower than 50%.
claim somebody/something as something
- A letter appeared in The Times claiming Fleming as the discoverer of penicillin.

首先E，出现being，排除；

A，B 新东方老师说：“不能从一张纸上来宣称”，我认为理由不充分，先放一下；

C the ability，即便用也是the ability to do sth. （同理排除B） 而且根据优选顺序can/be able to>the ability to do sth. 排除C

再看A，can 表示一种可能性，概率；而be able to表示具体的能力，所以选C，

而且A这里的it有指代不清的嫌疑。

the ability, from a one-page writing sample, of assessing             the ability of 的用法错在哪里   有没有这种表达法呀  ? 请nn帮助  谢谢   

1、Ａ　我认为从句意上理解，from短语应该放在that之后。

2、ability to do sth

3、根据大全987，答案应为Ｄ

就是A中的it指代不清了？

应该不是指代的问题

OG上说 In A, placing that after sample rather than after claims produces that unintended statement that the claim itself is made on the basis of a single on-page writing sample.

所以XDF老师说的不能从一张纸上声明

其实可以理解为，这个公司基于一张单页纸上声明说...。就是

from a one-page writing sample 修饰的是claim

但是实际上应该是修饰 assess

对，A项的from位置不对，产生歧义。

ability of doing 我认为不对， ability of + 我体本身。 such as ： ability of soil to hold water.

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