[求助]讨教一道OG题

chil

With only 5 percent of the world's population, United States citizens consume 28 percent of its nonrenewable resources, drive more than one-third of its automobiles, and use 21 times more water per capita than Europeans do.

A. With

B. As

C. Being

D. Despite having

E. Although accounting for

答案是E。 其他4个确实都不行，但我不明白的是E里的accounting是不是错的。我觉得应该是account 吧，因为Although引导从句，如果是accounting，那岂不是从句没有动词啦？请大家指教。

georgetseng

though they account for和though accounting for都是一样的，though在后者中当副词。

chil

多谢抽空回答。不过我刚才查了一下，“though可用作副词，意为"然而"，常用逗号与句子分开。although则不能这样使用，它只作连词。例如：It was a quiet party, I had a good time, though.” 难道是GMAC出题不严谨，应该用THOUGH？

AlienX

如果although/even though/while從句的主語跟主句主語是一樣**and**時態一致, 從句的主語可省and從句的main verb改成現在分詞...

georgetseng

上回说是副词说错了，应该是介词（或者是连词）：一般语法书里好像都没有特别指出是什么词。
Wikipedia上是这样说的： Some subordinating conjunctions (although, before, until, while), when used to introduce a phrase instead of a full clause, become prepositions with identical meanings.
所以，though doing xxx = though he does xxx； while doing xxx = while he does xxx； before doing xxx = before he does xxx, ...这在GMAT里都是很常见的，记下来这种结构就行。

chil

多谢高人们指点，这下清楚了

ada3063

为什么with是错的呢？

AlienX

意思上E比A好

nemo11

以下是引用ada3063在2008-8-11 23:02:00的发言：
为什么with是错的呢？

with有拥有的含义，逻辑意思不同