A mixture of poems and short fiction, Jean Toomer's Cane has been called one of the three best novels ever written by Black Americans—the others being Richard Wright, author of Native Son, and Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man
A. Black Americans—the others being Richard Wright, author of Native Son, and Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man
B. Black Americans—including Native Son by Richard Wright and Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
C. a Black American—including Richard Wright, author of Native Son, and Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man
D. a Black American—the others being Richard Wright, author of Native Son, and Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man
E. a Black American—the others being Richard Wright's Native Son and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
一个最直接的方法,虽说不靠谱,就是直接看书名的表达方式:作者名's 书名。 五个选项里只有E选项是和原句中Jean Toomer's Cane的表达一样的。 the others 对应 one of the three best novels,限定了其修饰对象是novel而不是black american。
“A sequence of six tones with a semitone in the middle, the others being whole tones, that was used in medieval music. 六音音列有六个音的音列,其中中间为一半音,其余的均为全音,此音列曾用于中世纪音乐中“
我觉得还是题目不够严谨,虽然根据排除法我们可以得出答案是E。 step1:应用the others而非including,因为破折号后面是在介绍three best novels中的余下两本。排除BC step2:题目一直在说的是书novel而非人、作者,因此排除AD。
但是我认为题目中one of the three best novels ever written by存在歧义,如果ever written是修饰one,那么就应该by a Black American;如果ever written修饰three best novels,那么就应该是by Black Americans。
个人认为,B的错误除了including以外,还有一点就是Native Son by Richard Wright和Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison中的by的用法。因为by+...一般只能做状语,不能修饰之前的两部作品。如果by之前加入written的话语法上就是正确的了。