新Prep 1 -243

girlwithwings

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Sulfur dioxide, a major contributor to acid rain, is an especially serious pollutant because it diminishes the respiratory system's ability to deal with all other pollutants.

A. an especially serious pollutant because it diminishes the respiratory system's ability to deal

B. an especially serious pollutant because of diminishing the respiratory system's capability of dealing

C. an especially serious pollutant because it diminishes the capability of the respiratory system in dealing

D. a specially serious pollutant because it diminishes the capability of the respiratory system to deal

E. a specially serious pollutant because of diminishing the respiratory system's ability to deal

OA: A.

一般生物's ability / capability
非生物则the ability of Sth.

Here is my question.
respiratory system 属于生物吗？

sophiacxl

不知道怎么回答楼主的问题。。。不过在WB中,capability也可以用于非生物的~LZ可以暂不用纠结respiratory system 是否属于生物~

我把老美关于这个题的解释贴上来了，解决大家对这道题的其他困惑~

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