以下是引用nina23在2003-11-5 22:01:00的发言: 1,there is only one difficulty----homing,so difficulties are wrong.
???? 2,form context, the main clause is just a conclusion of the (since pigeons with surgically removed olfactory nerves were found to have increased difficulties in homing.) namely,it is the sub-clause influence the main clause,the usage of 完成式 is perfect!
能做一下补充嘛?i'm not fully convinced, i still don't see why we can't use difficulties. it's unstated in the question whether it's one difficulty or many difficulties. THANXXX
I think the main fault is "increasing difficulty", the adj. form of increase which modify n. in front of the n. should be increased, rather than incresing. Thus C & D are eliminated. Moreover, the question is only talking about one kind of difficulty, thus options which use difficulties should be eliminated. Namely, we could only choose B.