一道真题，大家看看答案该选什麽？

jandjshi

一道真题，大家看看答案该选什莫？

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In 1981 children in the LACE w:st="on">United StatesLACE> spent an average of slightly less than two and a half hours a week doing household chores; by 1997 they had spent nearly six hours a week.>>

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A)       chores; by 1997 they had spent nearly six hours a week>>

B)       chores; by 1997 that figure had grown to nearly six hours a week

C)       chores, whereas nearly six hours a week were spent in 1997

D)       chores, compared with a figure of nearly six hours a week in 1997

E)       chores, that figure growing to nearly six hours a week in 1997

wycg

我选A.

LZ没有答案吗?

jandjshi

不好意思，没答案。是前辈们流下的题，但没有统一的结论。我想拿出来看看可不可以了结了它。

我怎么觉得是 E 呢？独立主格，名词加分词的结构。A & B 中的过去完成时实在没道理。C的被动不理想。D的compared修饰household chores. 好像E最好。

前辈们都在讨论A,B, and D.我的 E 是不是太离谱了？虚心请教。

zhangwobin

我感觉上要选择D,不知为何!

jandjshi

D的compared with主语不清。compare如果作动词，前面没有一个名词可以作主语。如果作分词，没有明确的修饰对象。

harlequin

AB时态不对，C语态与前面不一致。E独立主格表伴随或原因，但原句不存在这种逻辑关系。

D compared with 修饰 an average。但是less than 放在这里又好像是一个引诱我们选D的陷阱。

晕

crystal2003

I think the answer is B.

by 1997 means from 1981-1997, we should use the past perfect tense. I think it is right.

E is wrong, the subject in the main clause is "children".

crystal2003

对不起,刚开始在lab里,不能输中文.我想了又想,我觉得答案在A和B之间,最后我倾向于选A. OG第10版第81题与这个题有些类似,但又有些改变.CDE应该是完全可以排除的. 由于by 1997是指从1981到1997这个时间段,所以应该要用过去完成时的.参考一下OG 10th, 第81题如下:

81. In 1973 mortgage payments represented twenty-one percent of an average thirty-year-old male's income; and forty-four percent in 1984.

(A)  income; and forty-four percent in 1984

(B)   income; in 1984 the figure was forty-four percent

(C)  income, and in 1984 forty-four percent

(D)  income, forty-four percent in 1984 was the figure

         (E)income that rose to forty-four percent in 1984

jandjshi

谢谢crystal的回复。但我觉得你记错了吧。过去完成时表示过去的过去。原句里1981用spent（一般过去），81－97倒反而用过去完成？ 81年之前用过去完成还差不多。

NN解释一下E为什么错！

billytang1980

我发表一下个人看法。
A，B肯定是错的，因为chores后面的分号决定了，后面必须是主谓结构完整的句子。可以参考白勇的语法

书第二章句子结构中对于分号的使用。
D compared with 从逻辑上讲是对的，因为他指代了同一事物的差异性，但是他的对比形式不对，

children 和a figure
E that 原本是想指代前面的句子，但这是肯定不对的应该用which或是as  还比较合适，

再看C中 Whereas类是于while 而主句中用了主动语态，而这里从句中用了被动语态。是可以的。（尽管

不是最好的。）