OG review 11-106

charlie6989

Inuits of the Bering Sea were in isolation from contact with Europeans longer than Aleuts or Inuits of the North Pacific and northern Alaska.
(A)    in isolation from contact with Europeans longer than
(B)    isolated from contact with Europeans longer than
(C)    in isolation from contact with Europeans longer than were
(D)    isolated from contact with Europeans longer than were
(E)    in isolation and without contacts with Europeans longer than

Ans

OG解釋of E further distorts the sense of the sentence: because with cannot idiomatically serve as the preposition for in isolation

why??

appledrop

我的理解是be isolated from要比be in isolation from来的简介清楚，动词优于名词