一道题，请教

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15. Just as theEuropean countries of the early eighteenth century sought to exploit theresources of our continent, so too are we now attempting to extract energyand minerals from the ocean bed.
(A) Just as theEuropean countries of the early eighteenth century sought to exploit theresources of our continent, so too
(E)Similar to the European countries which sought in the early eighteenth centuryto exploit the resources of our continent

这道题选A.但是E 选项是怎么回事呢？

鱼winwin

similar to不能用在句首

wwc008love

just as....so 是固定搭配，表示动作的相似性。
E没有主句。明显是错的。要改的话加个逗号然后we are

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有道理！3q~

xeniaxin

个人觉得有两个问题
一个是E选项的 which sought in the early eighteenth century，“在十八世纪寻找XX的国家”稍微有点改动了原句的含义，原句的early eighteenth century直接限定了国家是“十八世纪的欧洲国家”。

另外，原句划线只划到了so too，也就是说如果把E选项放上去，就变成了 Similar to xxx are we,在语法上是有问题的