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angelwds

同问。。

E后面句子混乱。。到底是个怎么混乱法。。  虽然我读上去有点别扭。。但就是说不出个所以然来

maggie2845

以下是引用feifeizoe在2009/8/11 21:20:00的发言：

The first detailed study of magpie attacks in Australia indicates that by the time they had reached adulthood, 98 percent of men and 75 percent of women born in the country have been attacked by the birds

E. 98 percent of men and 75 percent of women who were born in the country, by the time they reached adulthood had been attacked by the birds-后面句子混乱

虽然C是最佳答案，但是我对于C中they放在women and men 前面是否指代不清有些搞不清楚？为什么啊？

同问，因为考虑了这个问题，所以误选了E

RTP

E后面的句子混乱 大家看看这里就明白了。

http://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/post29629.html#p29629

ambrosia2010

此题考点应该是两个：
1、they的指代从句意上理解成men and women才解释得通，而不是指birds；排除D， "by the time they reach adulthood"紧跟在”by the birds”之后，指代有歧义
2、时态。两个动作，“达到成年”和“被鸟袭击”从句意理解应该是“直到成年前百分之多少的男人女人都被鸟袭击过”，因此“被鸟袭击”发生在“达到成年”前，从时态上要比后者更退后一步；排除AB
E选项，“98 percent of men and 75 percent of women who were born in the country, by the time they reached adulthood had been attacked by the birds”，就算不考虑who were的限定性问题和是否简洁问题，有个明显的逗号用法错误：从句主语“men and women”和从句谓语动词“had been attacked”之间用了逗号割断，明显的错误。

afei0128

LS提到的帖子如下:

hmm. well, the major problem is that choice (e) attempts to set off a modifier with a single comma (on the left, but NOT on the right).

you can't do this. if a modifier is in the middle of a sentence, then you must either
* set it off with TWO commas, one on each side; or
* not set it off with commas at all.

the man who showed up yesterday is back again --> ok (meaning = there is more than one man, and i have to clarify that it's the one who showed up yesterday)
the man, who showed up yesterday, is back again --> ok (meaning = we already know which man; i'm merely providing more detail)
the man, who showed up yesterday is back again --> not ok
the man who showed up yesterday, is back again --> not ok

--

choice (e) is also fatally awkward, although it would probably take a native speaker (if not a seasoned writer of formal english) to ascertain that.

意思大致和LS的LS说的差不多

ConnieC

D. 98 percent of men and 75 percent of women that were born in the country were attacked by the birds by the time they reach adulthood - 不能用that修饰人

-- by 会员 feifeizoe (2009/8/11 21:20:00)

为啥that不能修饰人？我觉得可以这样用啊

wangxiwei

没有选E的么 ?E的时态很对阿  错在哪?

ximenheng

错了， 考古， UP

zenglh1988

同问。。

E后面句子混乱。。到底是个怎么混乱法。。  虽然我读上去有点别扭。。但就是说不出个所以然来

-- by 会员 angelwds (2009/8/22 9:24:00)

E中by the time they reached adulthood改变位置移到定语从句who were born in thecountry后面，造成by the time they reached adulthood修饰对象不清，究竟是修饰主句谓语had been attacked还是修饰定语从句从句who were born in the country，也就是一般说的“夹心修饰”了。

Rita22246

renehan 发表于 2009-1-29 09:28
B的时态明显错了吧， reach...had been？

这个解释好==！！！！！！！