instead of, rather than, unlike

southnorth

Nuclear fusion is the force that powers the Sun, the stars and hydrogen bomb, merging the nuclei of atoms and not splitting them apart, as in nuclear reactors.

A. merging the nuclei of atoms and not splitting them apart, as in nuclear reactors.

B. merging the nuclei of atoms instead of splitting them apart, like nuclear reactors.

C. merging the nuclei of atoms rather than splitting them apart, as nuclear reactors do.

D. and merges the nuclei of atoms but does not split them apart, as is done in nuclear reactors.

E. and merges the nuclei of atoms, unlike the nuclear reactors that split them apart.

选哪个？为什么？

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songlovegt

og10答案e
og11答案c
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我贴上来是乱码

sjjay

选项c,为正确答案。e选项的unlike 后面接名词加that从句不对。并且mergeing，比and merges 要好，merging做伴随状语修饰前面句子，、逻辑主语同句子主语。

rather than 比 instead of 和 and not 好，最正式。

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southnorth

看到国外网站上讨论这道题，多数人选C。外国人也在困惑中。。。

aeoluseros

确实C是最理想的.do应该是就近指代split了，核反应堆是核裂变而不是核聚变的。

AMBER513

看一下！               

不睡的鱼

我感觉是instead of 有替代之意 rather than更注重比较之意

AMBER513

The "of" in "instead of" is a preposition, and its object must be a noun.  Thus, "instead of" can only be used to compare single nouns, and the GMAT Sentence Correction seems to avoid even this use.  The GMAT also seems to avoid the "instead of" [gerund] structure.   The "than" in "rather than" is a subordinate clause, so the structure "rather than" is considerably more flexible in what can follow it.