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从gmatclub 找到的两个解释,给大家参考一下吧~我决定不纠结这道题啦
解释一:
D changes the meaning of the sentence from comparing the damage that termites and branches to homes. It changes it to saying that termites cause more damage to homes than the damage termites cause to branches.
You need the do to show that the damage to homes caused by branches and termites is being explained.
解释二:
First, can there be such a blatant error such as ‘termites does’ at the very start? This is too basic an error, for a 600 to 700 level question. Any way A and C are gone;
Secondly, there cannot exist a comparison between termites and branches, or between home and branches, all different things. So all the choices including E are wrong
Thirdly, basic parallelism demands – “to homes …. to branches”. The ‘to’ here is a preposition and not an infinitive , in which we can skip the second “to” without disrupting //ism , as we can see in the following example.
A recent study has found that within the past few years, many doctors have elected ‘to retire’ early rather than ‘face’ the threats of lawsuits and the rising costs of malpractice insurance.
Here the ‘to’ that we skip is part of the infinite structure to retire and (to) face
The poster will do well to check his source, in order to justify the choice of the OA, in the light of the faulty comparison
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