question about OG 26

kkgmat

26. Of all the possible disasters that threaten American agriculture, the possibility of an adverse change in climates is probably the most difficult to analyze.

I have a question on the un-underlined part. It looks to me what follows "of all the possible disasters ..." should be "an adverse change ...", not "the possibility of ...", which is not in the same category of "all the possible disaster ..."

But it's from OG,so must be correct. Anyone can give me a light on this?

Thanks.

remeo

原题是这样的
4.    Of all the possible disasters that threaten American agriculture, the possibility of an adverse change in climate is maybe the more difficult for analysis.
(A) is maybe the more difficult for analysis
(B) is probably the most difficult to analyze
(C) is maybe the most difficult for analysis
(D) is probably the more difficult to analyze
(E) is, it may be, the analysis that is most difficult

这道题问的好，我也有同样的疑问，不知为何可以这样用，类似的题还有OG上21题，如下：

21.    Of all the wild animals in their area, none was more useful to the Delaware tribes than the Virginia white tailed deer: it was a source of meat, and its hide was used for clothing, its antlers and bones for tools, and its sinews and gut for bindings and glue.
(A) deer: it was a source of meat, and its hide was used for clothing, its antlers and bones for tools, and its sinews and gut
(B) deer: it was a source of meat, and its hide used for clothing, with its antlers and bones for tools, and its sinews and gut used
(C) deer: which was a source of meat, with its hide used for clothing, antlers and bones for tools, as well as its sinews and gut used
(D) deer: which, as well as being a source of meat, its hide was used for clothing, its antlers and bones for tools, and its sinews and gut were
(E) deer: with, as well as being a source of meat, its hide used for clothing, its antlers and bones for tools, and its sinews and gut

gemj

在
Of all N1, N2...
的结构中，的确，二者属性必须相同。
但我认为这个题是没有问题的，如果Of all的后面接的是disasters，那么后面的确应该接kkgmat所说的an adverse change：
Of all the disasters that threaten American agriculture, an adverse change...

在原句中
Of all the possible disasters that threaten American agriculture, the possibility
前后都是一种可能性，在逻辑上是对称的。

但在句法上不好对称，总不能是这个样子吧：
Of all the possible disasters that threaten American agriculture, the possible adverse change...
所以就成了本句的样子。

至于remeo的例子，不管句法、逻辑上都没有问题啊？
在Of all the wild animals in their area, none 中
none对all。

fdkbaby

再问一点关于这道题og上的解释。

" In A and C, the use of maybe is unidiomatic,...."
我不是很清楚这里maybe和probably的区别，不知哪位可以解答一下，多谢了！

[此贴子已经被作者于2003-11-29 1:46:17编辑过]

dreadpower

maybe是口头语，ETS不爱用，probably是书面语

fdkbaby

多谢多谢！

susanyaki

能否问一下，这道题目的答案是多少啊

susanyaki

susanyaki

21. Of all the wild animals in their area, none was more useful to the Delaware tribes than the Virginia white tailed deer: it was a source of meat, and its hide was used for clothing, its antlers and bones for tools, and its sinews and gut for bindings and glue.
(A) deer: it was a source of meat, and its hide was used for clothing, its antlers and bones for tools, and its sinews and gut
(B) deer: it was a source of meat, and its hide used for clothing, with its antlers and bones for tools, and its sinews and gut used
(C) deer: which was a source of meat, with its hide used for clothing, antlers and bones for tools, as well as its sinews and gut used
(D) deer: which, as well as being a source of meat, its hide was used for clothing, its antlers and bones for tools, and its sinews and gut were
(E) deer: with, as well as being a source of meat, its hide used for clothing, its antlers and bones for tools, and its sinews and gut

egretxm

I do not agree with gemj,  I'm sure there is some logic  problem here.

Of all the possible disasters that threaten American agriculture, the possibility of an adverse change in climate is ......

the centric word in " of......" is disaster , and in "the possibility of......." is possibility ,

then, we can get," possibility is disaster"  ???

天气的不利变化是disaster, 谁能说可能性是disaster?

   我们说:' 洪水给某地带来灾难" , 能不能说," 洪水的可能性给某地带来灾难" ?  显然不能, 所以洪水的可能性不是灾难, 洪水才是灾难, 换成天气变化也是一样.

苦思良久,不敢妄自否定ETS的权威性, 可又想不通, 请各位指教!