求教gwd31-15;

luckystone2008

15: Reptiles, by drawing their body heat directly from the Sun rather than burning calories to generate it, can survive on ten percent of the nourishment that a mammal of similar size would normally require

A: rather than burning calories to generate it

B: rather than the generation of body heat by burning calories

C: and not from generating it by burning calories

D: instead of by burning calories for generating it

E: instead of body heat generated by burning calories

还没有标准答案，我怎么看谁都有问题？如果选择a,怎么可以漏掉by?

求教。xiexie

running

A:。。。。。

B：wordy

C: 结构不对称

D: instead of=rather than,但考试中标准答案偏向于用rather than。

E: wordy 加上结构不对称。

似乎只有A了。

lymmba

A is the best. 在这种结构中by可以省去.

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aph7

A因为相同结构，可以省略后面的by；D错在for generating