MM和GG们 请教og 146

xianwharton

146. A patient accusing a doctor of malpractice will find it difficult to prove damage if there is a lack of some other doctor to testify about proper medical procedures.
(A) if there is a lack of some other doctor to testify
(B) unless there will be another doctor to testify
(C) without another doctor's testimony
(D) should there be no testimony from some other doctor
(E) lacking another doctor to testify
Only C, the best choice, manages to convey the meaning of the sentence efficiently and idiomatically. Choices A and D are plagued by awkwardness and wordiness. Choice A also introduces the unidiomatic phrase lack of some other doctor.
  Choice B incorrectly uses a future-tense verb (will be) in the if clause; the if clause must use the present tense if it is preceded, as here, by a result clause that uses a future-tense verb (e.g., will find). Choice E introduces a dangling modifier: the lacking ... phrase cannot logically modify damage, the nearest noun.
解释中说lack of 不对，为什么呀？

xianwharton

xdjm门帮忙啊

viv

说不清楚为什么，不过从来没有见到过有lacking of 这么用的，这种东西就像being of一样，好像大多数情况没有必要用分词吧

wxiaobin

我觉得lack of 应该是对的，但是some other就是错的

hyte

應該是some other錯了~我們台灣這的補習班莫教授教的是ets裡some other+不可數名詞

jellysun

以下是引用hyte在2006-2-27 19:49:00的发言：
應該是some other錯了~我們台灣這的補習班莫教授教的是ets裡some other+不可數名詞

我觉得如果是some other错了的话,ETS会说,some other doctor is not idiomatic,而不是现在解释里面说的lack of some other doctor is not idiomatic吧?