GWD3-Q10

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yet the temperatures are so cold and the ice cap is reflective that....
答案是这样的话，那么不会算作是run on sentence 吗？？

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panpanchen 发表于 2010-6-29 10:12
同意楼主的说法，但是it指代的应该是polar ice而不是little of the polar ice，因为这里的little不是很少的 ...

强烈赞成, were it to do so中it=the polar ice, do so=melt

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kevin0214 发表于 2010-11-20 18:44
我认为答案应该是C，而不是B。理由是：1. B的were it to do so有严重的问题。    首先，这不符合 ...

The answer is indeed B.

Only B and C have acceptable parallelism with the 'so' construction ('the temps are so cold and the ice cap [so] reflective...'), so it's down to those two.

C is badly worded, though, because it seems to imply that there are two possibilities of essentially equal probability (either (1) little polar ice melts OR ELSE (2) the water levels blah blah blah). That leaves B, which correctly implies that the melting of the ice is hypothetical.