666 of 987, thanks aggggin

snowflower

1.        South Korea has witnessed the world’s most dramatic growth of Christian congregations; church membership is expanding by 6.6 percent a year, fully two-thirds of the growth coming from conversions rather than the population increasing.

(A) coming from conversions rather than the population increasing

(B) coming from conversions rather than increases in the population

(C) coming from conversions instead of the population’s increasing

(D) is from conversions instead of population increases（B）

(E) is from conversions rather than increasing the population

觉得应该选B，因为growth和increases是同类词，coming from conversions 和in the population分别modify前面的名词，所以rather than前后结构是平行的，NN们给看看，这样想对吗？

philikittist

increases是和conversions平行吧。划线部分是修饰2/3growth的。

我想问，increases用复数怎么理解？

[此贴子已经被作者于2004-5-19 23:23:57编辑过]

snowflower

嗯，philikittist，谢谢你的提醒，那就是说，增加的2/3是转过来的而不是因为人口增多造成的。

snowflower

philikittist, 昨天问了一NN，他说这个增长不是一次造成的，所以要用increases。我觉得可以这么理解吧，你说呢？

Pennylee

请问mm:

 

(B) coming from conversions rather than increases in the population 不需要在increases 前加上from作平行吗?

Pennylee

请问mm:  

(B) coming from conversions rather than increases in the population 不需要在increases 前加上from作平行吗?