还有一问/what

sbbi

An archaeological excavation at what might have been a workshop where statues were reproduced yielded 1532 fragments of human figures, including 7 intact statues.

B) what might have been a workshop where statues were reproduced yielded 1532 fragments of human figures and
C) the site of a possible workshop where statues were reproduced yielded 1532 fragments of human figures and

ANSWER B.

1.请问C为何错?
2."what might have been a workshop "这种结构出现了好几次在正确选项中了.比如比较结构.请问有何玄机?

gemj

what might have been a workshop where statues were reproduced 在语法功能上相当于一个名词词组。（what=the thing that）
在意思上表示的是“曾经可能是...”

the site of a possible workshop where statues were reproduced
中的possible workshop不能表达曾经的意思。现在也可能是。这与句子意思不相符合。

sbbi

GEMJ兄.我又从885里找了2个例子.WHAT引的从句本身在这些例子中真是必须的么?为何没有繁的嫌疑?请总结...)

10.    The work of mathematician Roger Penrose in the early 1970s, on the geometry of what are called aperiodic tiles, turned out to describe the architecture of a previously unknown class of crystals.
(A) what are called aperiodic tiles, turned out to describe
(B) what is called aperiodic tiles, describes
(C) aperiodic tiles, describing
(D) so-called aperiodic tiles, describe
(E) aperiodic tiles, it turned out to describe
A

13.    His studies of ice-polished rocks in his Alpine homeland, far outside the range of present-day glaciers, led Louis Agassiz in 1837 to propose the concept of an age in which great ice sheets had existed in now currently temperate areas.
(A) in which great ice sheets had existed in now currently temperate areas
(B) in which great ice sheets existed in what are now temperate areas
(C) when great ice sheets existed where there were areas now temperate
(D) when great ice sheets had existed in current temperate areas
(E) when great ice sheets existed in areas now that are temperate
B

gemj

我觉得要不要WHAT主要看它有没有包含新的信息含量或增进表达的效果。
就这三个例子来说WHAT是不能少的。
10.题(B)中的 what is called aperiodic tiles, 意思是“被称之为aperiodic tiles的东东”，表达了aperiodic tiles可能不为一般人所知的意思。

13.与第一例类似，existed in what are now temperate areas表达的是“存在于现在是温带地区的（地方）”，如果去掉WHAT，就是existed in temperate areas，意思显然变了。

但如果是下面的情况，WHAT就是UNNECESSARY了：
I am what is a man.

hedgeforfun

10.到底選a還是b?

ios

A