OG 174

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174. A letter by Mark Twain, written in the same year as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn were published, reveals that Twain provided financial assistance to one of the first Black students at Yale Law School.
(A)    A letter by Mark Twain, written in the same year as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn were published,
(B)    A letter by Mark Twain, written in the same year of publication as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
(C)    A letter by Mark Twain, written in the same year that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published,
(D)    Mark Twain wrote a letter in the same year as he published The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that
(E)    Mark Twain wrote a letter in the same year of publication as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that

the answer is C.
if replace "that" in C with "As", is it ok?

rabbitbug

不能把"that"换成"as". 因为the same... as...是要建立两者之间的比较关系, 比较的两者必须具有可比性. 这个题, 如果把that换成了as, 就成了"year"和"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn were published"或者"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn "相比较, 这不但不符合比较的原则, 也不符合原文的意思. 这里的that相当于引导一个定语从句, 修饰"year".