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102.
                Except for a concert performance that the composer himself staged in 1911, Scott Joplin’s ragtime opera Treemonisha was not produced until 1972, sixty-one years after its completion.

(A) Except for a concert performance that the composer himself staged

(B) Except for a concert performance with the composer himself staging it

(C) Besides a concert performance being staged by the composer himself

(D) Excepting a concert performance that the composer himself staged

(E) With the exception of a concert performance with the staging done by the composer himself

THE KEY IS A.

我搜索了一下前辈们的帖子,关于except, excepting, 以及except for 的区别还是不是很清楚.

请NN们帮我解释一下,谢谢.

stevegt

expect 是用在不同的事物

expect for用在相同的事物 比如这道题 concert和opera是一类事物.都是这个作家的作品

jandjshi

for接动词produced => sth. was produced for sth => Opera was produced for a concert.

102: Opera was not produced, except for a concert performance, until 1972.

yanzie

以下是引用stevegt在2007-6-23 23:28:00的发言：

expect 是用在不同的事物

expect for用在相同的事物 比如这道题 concert和opera是一类事物.都是这个作家的作品

同意

可是excepting呢？

Longman的解释是‘used to introduce the only thing or person in a group about which a statement is not true
同义： except (for)
例句：O'Rourke answered all the questions excepting the last one. ’

OG的解释是‘Excepting usually appears in negative constructions’

但我觉得不是很有说服力。哪位NN能深入解释一下？

zacharyzhang

这不就是OG“Usually appears in negative constructions”的意思么。既然原句没有否定结构，当然选择Except for的选项“最合适”啦

[此贴子已经被作者于2007-9-26 17:58:05编辑过]

yanzie

可是，Longman给出的例句也没有否定结构啊。