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howardwang

以下是引用fatlara在2005-9-29 10:36:00的发言：

C的后半段的确没有E简洁

不过我在GOOGLE上都没有搜索到:

provide for ; provide clue for; clue for的结构

所以, 偶还是选C了....

One of us can provide clues or ideas for another, but never answers.字典中的例子。

fatlara

以下是引用howardwang在2005-9-29 10:45:00的发言：

One of us can provide clues or ideas for another, but never answers.字典中的例子。

nod~刚才看到你举的这个例子了`

我觉得这个例子是:" provide sth for sb."

可是题目里面考的是" provide sth to do sth"

也就是说, 问题在于 provide sth for sb to do 用于表达动作目的的后半部分, 能不能用provide sth for sb for doing的形式...

汗,不知道说清楚没有~ 讨论ing...

Curtis01

determine ? who determine?

clue? or discovery? or scientists?

jennifer1979

i think the use of how and when mammals colonized the islands of the West Indies is not good. it's confusing. Is it how , when or how and when?

shashaxz

When I took the test, I picked the C.

But when I reviewed it again, I think that the word"they" in C option is confusing.

it is not clear that "they" represents the "mammle bones" , "animals", or "clues".

Actually the Pron. seems to be always the critical factor to rule out the answer.

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yangxiaogang

I prefer C

Stannum

E is better

it is okay to say "provide important clues of determining". if you google to phrase, there are 30 results.

if you google "provide important clues to determine", there are 10 results.

mmfoolish

本题偶选C,原因如下

(1)C中的they很多人认为是指代不清，可是这里没有啊。从逻辑意思上说，they refer to mammals.从语法意思上也是，因为连接when的是个and引导的平行句式。我记得OG某题说过这样的句式从平型角度来说是指代mammals，等我想起是OG哪题再贴上来（不好意思）

(2)C中did refer to colonized.colonized后面的部分可以省略。有网友认为要在did后面加上so.但是这题不需要。请看OG41,上面说to do so 可以指代一个有两个动词的词组（例如：consider to use...)。本题中只有一个动词--colonized,所以不需补出so

(3)我不选E的原因是我在longman上没有看见clue for的结构。

偶是大菜鸟，请各位指正！谢谢！

joe11

I agree with E.

'to' is not proper here. （effective error）

Scientists claim the discovery could provide clues

    To （目的是为了，做之前有明确目的） determine

    for (为...提供线索，做之前不知道目的）determining

coffemug

Prefer E.
查了LONGMAN， 虽没见clue for sth 的结构，但 clue to/about 的结构 是有的。 clue to do sth 差得好像有点远了，而且C不够简洁。
马上要上考场了，不管了。 E