ZDF补充材料#326

cz

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#326) Child prodigies are marked not so much by their skills but instead by the fact that these skills are fully developed at a very early ago.

(A) but instead
(B) rather than
(C) than
(D) as
(E) so much as

Why the answer is (D)? What's wrong with other choices?

#330) The use of gravity waves, which do not interact with matter in the way electromagnetic waves do, hopefully will enable astronomers to study the actual formation of black holes and neutron stars.

(A) in the way electromagnetic waves do, hopefully will enable
(B) in the way electromagnetic waves do, will, it is hoped, enable

Why the answer is (B) not (A)? (B) sounds incorrect to me!

Help please! Thanks

gemj

326
not so much... as是固定用法，所以其他的不对。

330
hopefully包括it is hoped的意思，而且它还有其他的意思。所以不如it is hoped的意思单一。
以后见到这两个词一块出现时，选it is hoped。
见下面的解释：
hopefully
1 : in a hopeful manner
2 : it is hoped : I hope : we hope
usage
In the early 1960s the second sense of hopefully, which had been in sporadic use since around 1932, underwent a surge of popular use. A surge of popular criticism followed in reaction, but the criticism took no account of the grammar of adverbs. Hopefully in its second sense is a member of a class of adverbs known as disjuncts. Disjuncts serve as a means by which the author or speaker can comment directly to the reader or hearer usually on the content of the sentence to which they are attached. Many other adverbs (as interestingly, frankly, clearly, luckily, unfortunately) are similarly used; most are so ordinary as to excite no comment or interest whatsoever. The second sense of hopefully is entirely standard.

这上题目以前讨论过，其实在已经讨论过的题目里，有很多精彩的论述，可以不时地去看看这些的讨论，定有收获！

[此贴子已经被作者于2003-9-23 22:30:44编辑过]

cz

谢谢你, gemj..