本月一道JJ语法题

walter9726

14. Unearthed in China, fossils of feathered dinosaurs offer the most dramatic evidence yet discovered of the close evolutionary relationship between dinosaurs and birds.

A. offer the most dramatic evidence yet discovered of the close evolutionary relationship between dinosaurs and birds
B. offer evidence more dramatic than what has yet been discovered of the close evolutionary relationship between dinosaurs and birds
C. offer more dramatic evidence of the close evolutionary relationship than any yet discovered between dinosaurs and birds
D. have offered the most dramatic evidence of the close evolutionary relationship between dinosaurs and birds
E. have offered more dramatic evidence than any that has yet been discovered of the close evolutionary relationship between dinosaurs and birds

有人认为是A，还有人认为是D，NN们看一下。

创之羽翼

选D的话，是不是因为考虑到YET啊，不过我觉得选A好点，有没有NN指点一下

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UU861114

呃，GWD-TN-24上给的答案是A

下面是我的观点：

我同意A

D的问题在于时态吧，GMAT里面如果没有强烈时间提示的话一般是不会用完成时态的，更何况这个本就应该是一般现在时，offer evidence是一个持续的状态，没有强调从某一时间点一直到现在的必要

但A也有问题，就是定语of距离修饰词discovery太远……

权衡利弊的话，还是选A，毕竟D时态是绝对错误

个人观点，个人观点

至于yet，刚查了Longman，貌似yet这里是adv，Longman解释如下：

used to emphasize that something is even more than it was before or is in addition to what existed before
yet more/bigger/higher etc

e.g.He got a call from the factory, telling of yet more problems.

Inflation had risen to a yet higher level.

yet another reason to be cautious

walter9726

我赞同A，D的确存在时态的问题。

A中的yet discovered是修饰evidence，意思是刚发现的证据,of 是连接evidence的

lancyfly

这个是prep或者og的原题，标准答案A:

原因：原文的最高级不能轻易改掉。Yet有至今为止的意思。完成时的表达除非原文有暗示，否则轻易不要改变原来的时态。

howean

去掉yet discovered 把原意改变了。 

这个evidence 只能说是已经发现的当中最。。。的；而不能说是所有的当中最。。。的