NASA's methodical approach to the exploration of Mars has not yet answered the questions of whether biological life forms ever emerged on Mars and whether, presuming such life forms having left fossil traces to begin with, those traces can still exist in some moist recesses of the cold and arid planet.
NASA’s methodical approach to the exploration of Mars has not yet answered the questions of whether biological life forms ever emerged on Mars and whether, presuming such life forms having left fossil traces to begin with, those traces can still exist in some moist recesses of the cold and arid planet.
A.and whether, presuming such life forms having left fossil traces to begin with, those traces can
B.and whether, if it is presumed that such life forms left some fossil traces to begin with, can those traces
C.and whether, presuming such life forms left fossil traces to begin with, those traces (答案)
D.and, presuming such life forms did leave some fossil traces to begin with, if they can
E.and, presuming such life forms to have left fossil traces to begin with, if they 疑惑点 persuming such life forms left fossil traces to begin with 这个插入语的结构 很混乱 left 是非谓语 还是 真正的谓语呢
没有插入语时,句子为“NASA’s methodical approach to the exploration of Mars has not yet answered the questions of whether biological life forms ever emerged on Mars and whether those traces still exist in some moist recesses of the cold and arid planet. ”
然后关键看插入语“presuming such life forms left fossil traces to begin with”,这个插入语中含有一个宾语从句。通常presume (that)后面可跟宾语从句,此时that是可以省略的。这里,left是谓语。“leave traces to begin with”,留下跟踪的线索。