一些有疑问的题3

yan-jj

1 Bob Wilber became Sidney Bechet’s student and protégé when he was nineteen and, for a few years in the 1940’s, came as close to being a carbon copy of the jazz virtuoso in performance as anyone has ever come.
(A) as anyone has ever come
(B) as anyone ever had been
(C) as anyone ever had done
(D) that anyone ever did
(E) that anyone ever came
本题选A 为什么C不对?

2 For all his professed disdain of such activities, Auden was an inveterate literary gossip.
(A) For all his professed disdain of such activities
(B) Having always professed disdain for such activities
(C) All such activities were, he professed, disdained, and
(D) Professing that all such activities were disdained
(E) In spite of professions of disdaining all such activities
本题选A 为什么B不对?

3 Rembrandt so treasured his collection of Islamic portraits that when forced to sell them in order to raise money, he first made copies of more than twenty.
(A) he first made copies of more than twenty
(B) first he made copies of more than twenty
(C) more than twenty were copied
(D) copies of more than twenty were made
(E) he copies more than twenty of them first
本题选A 为什么E不对?

4 Many of them chiseled from solid rock centuries ago, the mountainous regions of northern Ethiopia are dotted with hundreds of monasteries.
(A) Many of them chiseled from solid rock centuries ago, the mountainous regions of northern Ethiopia are dotted with hundreds of monasteries.
(B) Chiseled from solid rock centuries ago, the mountainous regions of northern Ethiopia are dotted with many hundreds of monasteries.
(C) Hundreds of monasteries, many of them chiseled from solid rock centuries ago, are dotting the mountainous regions of northern Ethiopia.
(D) The mountainous regions of northern Ethiopia are dotted with hundreds of monasteries, many of which are chiseled from solid rock centuries ago.
(E) The mountainous regions of northern Ethiopia are dotted with hundreds of monasteries, many of them chiseled from solid rock centuries ago.
本题选E 为什么C不对?

5 Increases in the cost of energy, turmoil in the international money markets, and the steady erosion of the dollar have altered the investment strategies of United States corporations more radically than those of foreign corporations.
(A) altered the investment strategies of United States corporations more radically than those of
(B) altered the investment strategies of United States corporations more radically than
(C) altered the investment strategies of United States corporations more radically than they have
(D) radically altered the investment strategies of United States corporations more than
(E) radically altered the investment strategies of United States and
本题选A 为什么C不对?

6 By showing that South Africa does not have a free market and is in fact a kind of collectivist welfare state for Whites only, Sowell argues that American conservatives have no valid ideological grounds to be in sympathy with the Pretoria regime.
(A) to be in sympathy with
(B) to sympathize with
(C) for sympathizing with
(D) that they should sympathize with
(E) that they should have sympathy for
本题选C, 不选B, 是存在固定搭配吗?

7 In terms of physics, the characteristic feature of the roller coaster is that the cars' potential energy, gained through their being lifted by a chain drive through the Earth's gravity to the top of the first drop, has been converted to kinetic energy by the time the ride ends.
(A) cars' potential energy, gained through their being lifted by a chain drive
(B) cars' potential energy, a gain achieved as they are lifted by a chain drive
(C) potential energy from the cars' being lifted by a chain drive
(D) potential energy of the cars, gained as a chain drive lifts them
(E) potential energy gained by the cars, being achieved while a chain drive lifts them
答案: D    我认为: C

gemj

你提的这一系列问题大多数都问过并且已经解决，你可以搜索一下。
问过并且已经解决的就不用再问了。
把那些没有问过的或者虽然已经问过但尚未解决的题目拿出来问。
并且最好是一个帖子一个问题，这样讨论起来也深入。
谢谢！

gemj

1. A中的现在完成时表达的是“迄今为止”的意思，也就是直到今天，仍然无人出其右。

2. For all 是词组, "尽管"的意思, 后面跟名词(词组).

3. E时态不对呀, 应该用过去时. 估计你是想问B吧? B不对是因为这样的结构(first he made copies of more than twenty) 导致first 修饰整个句子, 并且有导致言犹未尽的误会. (首先他干了什么, 然后他干了什么呢?)

4. C中用进行时态是没有根据也是没有必要的.

5. 比较的是不同公司的the investment strategies.不是比较公司.

6. ground for doing sth标准的习惯用法.

gemj

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把C代进去, 句子是:
In terms of physics, the characteristic feature of the roller coaster is that the potential energy from the cars’ being lifted by a chain drive through the Earth’s gravity to the top of the first drop, has been converted to kinetic energy by the time the ride ends.
FROM后面的成份太长了, 而且FROM也不能表达动作和过程，显然没有gained好。
而且FROM在这里表达"来自于"也比较UNIDIOMATIC.