GWD1-Q21

teddylydia

Despite the growing number of people who purchase plane tickets online, airline executives are convinced that, just as one-third of bank customers still prefer human tellers to automatic teller machines, many travelers will still use travel agents.
   
A.    growing number of people who purchase plane tickets online, airline executives are convinced that, just as one-third of bank customers still prefer human tellers to automatic teller machines, many travelers will
B.    growing number of people who purchase plane tickets online, airline executives are convinced, just as one-third of bank customers still prefer human tellers to automatic teller machines, that many travelers would
C.    growing number of people purchasing plane tickets online, airline executives are convinced, just as one-third of bank customers still prefer human tellers as compared to automatic teller machines, many travelers will
D.    fact that the number of people purchasing plane tickets online is growing, airline executives are convinced, just as one-third of bank customers still prefer human tellers as compared to automatic teller machines, that many travelers would
E.    fact that the number of people who purchase plane tickets online are growing, airline executives are convinced that, just as one-third of bank customers still prefer human tellers compared with automatic teller machines, many travelers would

答案是A
為什麼不能選C?

pansean

首先，宾语从句中，that不能省略，xxxx are convinced that
然后，prefer A to B 喜欢A多过B 是个正确地道表达

fansail

补充一个，that的位置（或者C选项这样不加that，除了违背宾语从句需用that引导之外）使得airline executives与bank customers对比；而A选项把that放在 convinced后，则构成bank customers 和 travelers对比:
From Manhattangmat:
The placement of the commas and the word "that" - isn't right.
Because of the placement of the commas and "that", this choice mistakenly puts "executives are convinced" in parallel with "1/3 of customers prefer..." That makes no sense.
In (a), though, since "that" precedes the comma, the parallelism is different: "1/3 of customers prefer..." is now parallel to "many travelers will...", as it logically should be.
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