选E. 引自"800Bob"的话: Re: please check out this question
Seems like a "GMAT quality" question to me. It has four absolutely wrong answer choices and one answer choice with absolutely nothing wrong.
(A) is wrong because it uses "this" to refer not to a specific noun but to the whole idea expressed earlier in the sentence. (A) is also wrong because of "results in the act of stinging causing..." "Causing" is a gerund and needs to be preceded by the possessive, which would be the very ugly "the act of stinging's causing..." The only way around that would be to write something like "results in the fact that the act of stinging causes..."
(B) is wrong because it is a sentence fragment: it has no independent clause.
(C) is wrong because it illogically states that the stinger results in the fact that the act results in the bee's death.
(D) is wrong because, like (C), it says that the stinger results in the bee's death, and because, like (A), it fails to use the possessive before the gerund. |