大全306 protecting( 即OG 39)

yzlinlin

39. For members of the seventeenth-century Ashanti nation in Africa, animal-hide shields with wooden frames were essential items of military equipment, a method to protect warriors against enemy arrows and spears.
(A)    a method to protect
(B)    as a method protecting
(C)    protecting
(D)    as a protection of
(E)    to protect
Choice C is best because the participle protecting begins a phrase that explains what the shields did. Choices A and B awkwardly use the singular word method to refer to items of military equipment rather than to the use of such items. Also, a method of protecting would be more idiomatic than a method to protect in A or a method protecting in B. In B and D, as is incorrect; also, a protection in D has no noun for which it can logically substitute. Choice E is incomplete; used to protect would have been acceptable.


答案C，OG也写了解释。但是这题如果在考场上，我是死活做不对的。我总是会选A。

问问大家是怎么正确把握这题的思路的？也就是说，没看OG解释，如果你做对的话，是怎么考虑的？

braveMBA

为什么不选C呢？更简洁。

tqbiao

a一定不对，a method不能是equipment的同位语吧，两者不同的

luciferruc

怎么个不同法，equipment作为一种method不行么