思路: Idiom; Logicalpredication; Parallelism The structure of thissentence expresses negation and affirmation: Many experts regarded X not as asign that Y, but as a sign of Z. The idiomatic choice of words for thisconstruction should involve two clauses introduced by not as ... , but as... Itis also important to connect logically the adjective confident with the noun it
Waterblue01@cd:本题是not... But…平行结构,所以前面是not as 后面最好也是but as。一步秒杀。 A Theidiomatic choice of words to express the negation of one clause and theaffirmation of another is not as...but as... The affirmed clause is incorrectly introduced by rather. Furthermore,the preposition by does not express the idea that households are confident. Theplacement of the restrictive clause that they could safely handle new debtafter households could also cause confusion. 应该用but as,而且confidence by households用法错误,后面的限定性定语从句修饰歧义 B Theidiomatic choice of words to express the negation of one clause and theaffirmation of another is not as...but as... The affirmed clause is incorrectlyintroduced by yet as. The wording it was safe for them [households] to handlenew debt changes the intended meaning, making the households less clearly anagent in the handling. Yet错误同A,后面的that从句改变了原句的意思,使得houselold并不像是handle new bedt的动作发出者。 C Theidiomatic choice of words to express the negation of one clause and theaffirmation of another is not as...but as... The affirmed clause is incorrectlyintroduced by but without the as. Furthermore, the preposition by does notexpress the idea that households are confident. But 错误同A,confidence by households错误同A D bingo E Theuse of the word also is misleading here. If the first embedded clause isnegated, the affirmed second clause cannot also be true. In addition, in theirability, while expressing the same idea as could, is redundant and safely tohandle is awkward; the wording in (D) is superior. But also错误同A,in their ability没有could 简练,而且后面就显得awkward。 16. A surgein new home sales and a drop in weekly unemployment claims suggest that the economy might not beas weak as some analysts previously thought.
(A) claims suggestthat the economy might not be as weak as some analysts previously thought (B) claims suggeststhat the economy might not be so weak as some analysts have previously thought (C) claims suggestthat the economy might not be as weak as have been previously thought by some analysts (D) claims, suggestingabout the economy that it might not be so weak as previously thought by some analysts (E) claims, suggestingthe economy might not be as weak as previously thought to be by some analysts
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