求教大牛～～

zhjie

60. According to a recent poll, owning and living in a freestanding house on its own land is still a goal of a majority of young adults, like that of earlier generations.
(A)    like that of earlier generations
(B)    as that for earlier generations
(C)    just as earlier generations did
(D)    as have earlier generations
(E)    as it was of earlier generations
选e，不知道大牛能不能帮忙把这个的省略补全，把代词直接换成名词～拜托了～

lcy19812000

as owning and living in a freestanding house on its own land was (a goal) of earlier generations.

You can see this is pretty parallel with "owning and living in a freestanding house on its own land is still a goal of a majority of young adults".

zhjie

Thanks~

tankobe

as owning and living in a freestanding house on its own land was (a goal) of earlier generations.

You can see this is pretty parallel with "owning and living in a freestanding house on its own land is still a goal of a majority of young adults".

-- by 会员 lcy19812000 (2009/11/12 21:48:35)

的确。这题大家要注意个有意思的现象，通常我们说and连接任何成本做主语，谓语都不许是复数。（除了war and peace这类特例）；另外本题也是一个极品特例了：

doing1 and doing2 N    is......  而且居然it指代这两个分词短语....

个人见解，这两个分词共用一个宾语N, 才可理解为单数。以下结构必须用复数（OG上有一个例子，我没时间找了，有兴趣的同学可以找来）

doing1 N1 and doing2 N2 are.....