请教prep 26

caizeen

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

疑惑：考点上说significantly和significant不能随意更改，否则变更了原意，所以我选择的是E.

笔记是这样说的：

(A) of there being代替that同位语从句表达复杂,笨拙并且不符合习惯.

(B) 错误同A选项

(C) 错误同A选项

(D) 正确, 用that同位语从句清楚地解释了generalization的内容

(E)  significant differences在这里可以理解为有重要意义的区别,也可以理解为重要的区别,因此不如significantly表达意思清楚

我对D &E的解释还是迷惑，请明示D & E到底怎么判断，谢谢

金铜仙人

E中little不能修饰可数名词differences，因此排除E.

但是D选项我也觉得别扭，如果换成that there is little significantly different 就好理解了

wubodengzi

feifeizoe

通过应该使用宾语还是宾语从句可以很容易的去掉ABC
但是D和E中的表达，其实还是很类似的，当时做的时候考虑了简洁用法，所以选择了E

再反过来想下：除了说significantly只是表示程度深，significant可能表示程度深，也可能表示意义深刻的，可能混淆以外，
从这个句子的角度来看，D中的little that is significantly different in XXXX 强调的是整个句子，比较合适和合理，
而E中只是强调一个differences一个词。

同时如果真的要使用difference的话 应该用单数来修饰little，而不是复数。

wangchen0355

there is 不是表示客观存在，一般情况下there is 都是错的啊，为什么选D?

smallmole

4mmgirl

感觉D真是罗嗦啊。。。

yidiyuehan

这个题目我也不明白D 选项的there is little that is 的功能，不过只能用排除法排除E 了.