PREP SC一道题

mbadream2009

The investigations of many psychologists and anthropologists support the generalization of

there being little that is a significant difference in the underlying mental processes manifested by

people from different cultures.

 

(A) of there being little that is a significant difference

(B) of there being little that is significantly different

(C) of little that is significantly different

(D) that there is little that is significantly different

(E) that there is little of significant differences

答案是D.  个人认为是E.

D的解释是significant有歧异.

想听听大家的看法.

nerakuhs

lz这题挺好，至少提醒了我，以后遇到类似的题目后不要盲目根据significantly和significant的区别、参照原题使用哪个词，而迅速把选项排除。

其实，这道题目里面，原题即A选项用错了词，根据要表达的意思，应该使用significantly这个程度副词，来说明差别很大.而并非是要表达重要性。因此，应该使用副词significantly。A、E排除。

由于后面结构比较复杂，因此用that从句比较好。D中，虽然乍一看that is有点wordy，但是因为前面的名词little同时也可以作副词，如果去掉that is的话，就会有歧义。（是名词还是副词？）

B选项错误太明显了 ，there being

C的话 of结构不好

欢迎大家讨论补充~~~

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