prep sc-1-73（一个小问题）

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73。

Evolutionary psychology holds that the human mind is not a "blank slate," but instead that it comprises specialized mental mechanisms that were developed as a way of solving specific problems human ancestors faced millions of years ago.

 

(A) the human mind is not a "blank slate," but instead that it comprises specialized mental mechanisms that were developed as a way of solving

(B) the human mind is not a "blank slate" but instead comprises specialized mental mechanisms that were developed to solve

(C) the human mind, instead of a "blank slate," it comprises specialized mental mechanisms that have been developed to solve

(D) rather than it being a "blank slate," the human mind comprises specialized mental mechanisms that have been developed as a way of solving

(E) rather than the human mind's being a "blank slate," that it comprises specialized mental mechanisms that were developed as a way of solving

用排除法可以选出B, 我想问的是 not A but B ，AB要平行，可是not后面是个名词，but后面是个动词，为什么平行呢？

 

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is not .... but comprises

e.g.: John is not a person but (John, known) is a dog. (is not X, but is Y)

still parellel.

the question asks for the sentence parellelism, not the idiomatic one.

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[此贴子已经被作者于2007-9-8 12:58:53编辑过]

eaglegrace

当not A but B中AB都是名词时，AB平行；然而当but连接两个句子，not是句子的一部分时，就是两个句子平行了。这个句子是that……，but instead that……两个that平行。平行的标志就是时态一致，总体句子结构大致相同。