OG11紫色59题

lydiajiali

59. Neanderthals had a vocal tract that resembled those of the apes and so were probably without language，a shortcoming that may explain why they were supplanted by our own species．

(A)  Neanderthals had a vocal tract that resembled those of the apes

(B)  Neanderthals had a vocal tract resembling an ape's

(C)  The vocal tracts of Neanderthals resembled an ape's

(D)  The Neanderthal's vocal tracts resembled the apes’

(E)  The vocal tracts of the Neanderthals resembled those of the apes

Agreement + Grammatical construction

In the underlined portion of the sentence，the plural pronoun those does not agree with its singular referent，a vocal tract．To correct this error, the clause that resembled those of the apes may be rewritten as a phrase using the singular, resembling an ape's．In this case，ape's vocal tract is understood．

A  Those does not agree with vocal tract; relative clause is wordy and unnecessary．

B  Correct．In this concise sentence，the singular an ape's(vocal tract understood)agrees with a vocal tract．

C  Neanderthals must be the subject of the second verb，were；vocal tracts…were probably without language is illogical；tracts is compared to an ape's (tract)．

D  Vocal tracts cannot logically be the subject of the second verb；Neanderthal's is singular but vocal tracts is plural

E  Making vocal tracts the subject here also makes it the illogical subject of were probably without language．

The correct answer is B．

题干中红色字体部分的意思及结构是什么，在句子中是什么作用。这个结构我见的不多，请大家帮忙告诉我一下是怎么回事.

谢谢

lydiajiali

顶啊．请帮忙

彼岸无岸

同问，顶一个

wenchang_yiy

穴居人拥有和猿人类似的声道并且因此可能没有语言，我觉得是这么翻译，and连接两个结构平行的子句，前一句是Neanderthals had a vocal tract (that resembled those of the apes)，后一句是so (Neanderthals) were probably without language

swimswan

楼上关于so句的补充我同意，但是不明白为什么会发生这样的省略
who knows？