一道语法难题，大家看看为什么选这个答案

mmheng

看不懂楼上的，求解答为什么d不对？

sayhello1983

大家都是往答案上凑吧。这句话跟本看不出该用现在什么时态,只要没有用过去或者将来都说得通，consistently单用现在进行更多，当然经常是跟SINCE连用。consistent 是褒义词，unqualifying贬意义词，用AND连接不好，改成副词无褒贬。明天去请教一下美国同事。

mmheng

顺便问另两道讨厌的题：

In an attempt to guarantee the security of its innovative water purification method, the company required each employee to sign a confidentially agreement prohibiting that its water purification methods be disclosed to companies using an analogous purification process.

a原题

b prohibiting them from the disclosing of its water purification methods to any company

c prohibiting disclosure of its water purification methods to any company

d that would prohibit them from disclosure of its water purification methods to companies

e that would prohibit its water purification methods to be disclosed to a company

为什么选c？ a 错在哪里？ c 的disclosure前面是不是该加the?

The investigation 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 原题

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

为什么是d？有这样的表达方式？

[此贴子已经被作者于2009/8/15 11:52:45编辑过]

matthias1

首先回答原来的题目:关于前者说的:无生命与有生命用法，从OG上看,我从没遇到过,官方给出这解释,所以我觉得不能随意总结,并且题目中的labor是有生命的,我的看法:从OG表达更清楚角度来看,修饰对象应该尽可能靠近,所以labor放在后面为好.

后面的两个题目:A错在后面的companies,你看下公司后面的定语就知道该用a company.其实这题目我到感觉,ing做定语应该改为that从句,因为从句后面的内容对整句是重要的,我到有个疑问:prohibit that 有这用法?

第二题,ABC明显错,而E你看下,这里little of 是修饰significant的,所以明显错了,D这用法到是没怎么看到过，但是没明显错误啊

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陌上m花开

我感觉前面那道题的D选项是因为support by labor不太好。
C：receive the support of labor
D: receive the support by labor
这里的support都是名词，by labor如果译成中文就是“通过劳动者得到支持”，和“得到劳动者的支持”的意思都不太一样了。
菜鸟拙见，请指正。