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sbbi

16.    New techniques in thermal-scanning photography, a process that records radiation from surface areas, makes it possible to study the effects of calefaction, or warming, of a river in greater detail than ever before.
(A) makes it possible to study the effects of calefaction, or warming, of a river in greater detail than ever before
(B) make it possible to study, in greater detail, the effects of calefaction, or warming, of a river than ever before
(C) have made it possible to study in greater detail than ever before the effects of calefaction, or warming, of a river
(D) make possible the study of the effects of calefaction, or warming, of a river in greater detail than it ever was before
(E) has made it more possible than ever before to study in greater detail the effects of calefaction, or warming, of a river

ANSWER C. What is wrong with B?

braveMBA

感觉B有两个地方不是十分好：
1、把句子的核心比较意思中的重要成分变成了插入语--in greater detail，而C没有这个问题
2、比较成分和被比较成分中间隔着长长的宾语，容易造成意思上的凌乱或者歧义，容易理解成[calefaction, or warming, of a river than ever before]。

以上参考。

littlegirl

in greater detail than ever before比in greter detail...than ever before好
个人看法

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sbbi

我感觉"have made "和"make"也有对错的区别.XDJM讲讲?

lemonee

很困惑。我想这题是考more......than ever before 的永法。连在一起用
还有一句（zz笨叮当）
The finacial crash of October 1987 demonstrated that the worled's capital markets are more closely integrated than ever before and that events in one part of the global village may be transmitted to the rest of the village-almost instsantaneously.

nina23

以下是引用braveMBA在2003-10-10 11:12:00的发言：
感觉B有两个地方不是十分好：
1、把句子的核心比较意思中的重要成分变成了插入语--in greater detail，而C没有这个问题
2、比较成分和被比较成分中间隔着长长的宾语，容易造成意思上的凌乱或者歧义，容易理解成[calefaction, or warming, of a river than ever before]。

以上参考。

Agree and the stucture of sentence should be  New techniques ...... have made it possible to do....more  than ever before.

and that than ever before indicate that we use the present perfect tense.

ricesu

以下是引用braveMBA在2003-10-10 11:12:00的发言：
感觉B有两个地方不是十分好：
1、把句子的核心比较意思中的重要成分变成了插入语--in greater detail，而C没有这个问题
2、比较成分和被比较成分中间隔着长长的宾语，容易造成意思上的凌乱或者歧义，容易理解成[calefaction, or warming, of a river than ever before]。

以上参考。

in great detail修饰study，介词词组和他的修饰对象应该尽可能接近，在没有逗号的情况下，介词词组修饰离他最近的名词或者动词。所以c好。b的问题在于，加了逗号，介词词组可能修饰前面的study，也可能修饰后面的effect，所以不好
than ever before,个人理解也是使用完成时态比较好

lemonee

我认为than ever before 和现在完成时连用并不时考点。

zz笨叮当
The finacial crash of October 1987 demonstrated that the worled's capital markets are more closely integrated than ever before and that events in one part of the global village may be transmitted to the rest of the village-almost instsantaneously.
这就没有用have been 呀？

cournot

这个b真得有点搞，需要好好修炼

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盈儿

(B) make it possible to study, in greater detail, the effects of calefaction, or warming, of a river than ever before

(C) have made it possible to study in greater detail than ever before the effects of calefaction, or warming, of a river

in greater detail用两个逗号隔开,是插入语成分,可省可不省

所以B不好的原因,也许是因为make it possible to study, (in greater detail, )the effects of calefaction, or warming, of a river than ever before

整个句子就没有比较成分可以对应than了