旧PREP 99题

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A study of food resources in the North Pacific between 1989 and 1996 revealed that creatures of the seabed were suffering from dwindling food supplies, possibly resulting from increasing sea surface temperatures during the same period.

(A) that creatures of the seabed were suffering from dwindling food supplies, possibly resulting from increasing

(B) that creatures of the seabed were suffering because food supplies were dwindling, possibly as a result of an increase in

(C) that creatures of the seabed were suffering because of food supplies, which were dwindling possibly as a result of increasing

(D) creatures of the seabed that were suffering from food supplies that were dwindling, possibly resulting from an increase in

(E) creatures of the seabed that were suffering because food supplies were dwindling, which possibly resulted from increasing
C为什么不对呢？是因为最后的increasing吗？

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A: from + doing不够准确表达句子意思；increasing sea surface temperatures这里表示的是过程，实际要求表现的是结果

B: correct

C: because of + 名词，没有准确表达句子意思

D: revealed一种动物，而不是revealed一种状况，改变了句意

E: which不能用来表示结果状语