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eshopaholic

1.       Because the Earth’s crust ismore solid there and thus better able to transmit shock waves, an earthquake ofa given magnitude typically devastates an area 100 times greater in the easternUnited States than it does in the West.
(A) of a givenmagnitude typically devastates an area 100 times greater in the eastern UnitedStates than it does in the West
(B) of a givenmagnitude will typically devastate 100 times the area if it occurs in theeastern United States instead of the West
(C) will typicallydevastate 100 times the area in the eastern United States than one of thecomparable magnitude occurring in the West
(D) in the easternUnited States will typically devastate an area 100 times greater than will aquake of comparable magnitude occurring in the West（D）
(E) that occurs inthe eastern United States will typically devastate 100 times more area than ifit occurred with comparable magnitude in the West


答案是D。望能解释下A为什么错了。谢谢。

ozymendias

A中的it不好，it指代就是同一个地震，而一个地震不可能即发生在美国东部又发生在美国西部，所以这里用it逻辑错误

eshopaholic

quite explicit.  merci

ozymendias

de rien