一道prep题关于用语义判断的问题

freethebmw

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A study of food resources in the North Pacific between 1989 and 1996 revealed that creatures of the seabed were suffering from dwindling food supplies, possibly resulting from increasing sea surface temperatures during the same period.

A. that creatures of the seabed were suffering from dwindling food supplies, possibly resulting from increasing

B. that creatures of the seabed were suffering because food supplies were dwindling, possibly as a result of an increase in

C. that creatures of the seabed were suffering because of food supplies, which were dwindling possibly as a result of increasing

D. creatures of the seabed that were suffering from food supplies that were dwindling, possibly resulting from an increase in

E. creatures of the seabed that were suffering because food supplies were dwindling, which possibly resulted from increasing

这道题很容易排除CDE，仅比较A和B，我确实觉得resulf from an increase in sea surface temperatures比from increasing sea surface temperature逻辑要更说的通一些，但还是想细挖一下前半句suffering from dwindling food supplies和suffering because food supplies were dwindling，这两句有没有语义的区别呢？

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freethebmw

287151319 发表于 2014-12-30 15:47
是这样的，关于resulting那点我弄错了，你看看我更正后的答案。

太感谢了！

287151319

freethebmw 发表于 2014-12-30 00:32
这点我明白，那是不是类似的，creature suffer的应该是食物供给下降了，而不是下降的食物供给，所以A中dw ...

是这样的，关于resulting那点我弄错了，你看看我更正后的答案。

freethebmw

287151319 发表于 2014-12-29 22:58
A.  resulting from increasing sea surface temperatures during the same period.  resulting from 修饰  ...

这点我明白，那是不是类似的，creature suffer的应该是食物供给下降了，而不是下降的食物供给，所以A中dwindling food supplies也没有B中得food supplies were dwindling合适？

287151319

A.  resulting from increasing sea surface temperatures during the same period.  resulting from 修饰 creatures of the seabed were suffering from dwindling food supplies，即 creatures of the seabed were suffering from dwindling food supplies可以看做result的主语，语法没问题。但是resulting from increasing sea surface temperatures during the same period. result from的是temperatures，而题目的意思想表达的是温度的上升，不是上升的温度。
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更正：  resulting from 不能用在逗号后面。以下摘取自Mahattan论坛：
http://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/forums/a-study-of-food-resources-in-the-north-pacific-between-1989-t1061.html

consensus is that you just can't have 'resulting from' after a comma.

you can have it as an adjective modifier, without a comma - as in the following sentence:
the flooding resulting from the abnormally strong storms had left six inches of standing water in the street.
note that the boldface is an adjective modifier, modifying 'flooding'.

it appears that on the gmat, as well as in standard written english in general, 'resulting from' after a comma is generally considered unacceptable.

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choice b features the standard use of a prepositional phrase to describe an action:
'(possibly) as a result of', like other prepositional phrases that follow commas, serves to modify the action of the preceding clause (i.e., were dwindling).  this is totally standard usage, so make sure you know it.