请教教我....头大

sihua

4.     According to a survey of graduating medical students conducted by the Association of American Medical Colleges, minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice in socioeconomically deprived areas.

(A) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice

(B) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than other graduates who plan on practicing

(C) minority graduates are nearly four times as likely as other graduates to plan on practicing

(D) it is nearly four times more likely that minority graduates rather than other graduates will plan to practice

(E) it is nearly four times as likely for minority graduates than other graduates to plan to practice

（C）怎么比..why not A B

10.   Young female ballet dancers and gymnasts sometimes fail to maintain good eating habits caused by the desire to be as thin as possible.

(A) Young female ballet dancers and gymnasts sometimes fail to maintain good eating habits caused by the desire to be as thin as possible.

(B) Good eating habits sometimes fail to be maintained by young female ballet dancers and gymnasts caused by desiring to be as thin as possible.

(C) Because they desire to be as thin as possible, good eating habits are sometimes not maintained by young female ballet dancers and gymnasts.

(D) Because they desire to be as thin as possible, young female ballet dancers and gymnasts sometimes fail to maintain good eating habits.

(E) Young female ballet dancers and gymnasts sometimes fail to maintain good eating habits because they desire to be as thin as possible.

（D）

D 与E有何不同

12.   Sulfur dioxide, a major contributor to acid rain, is an especially serious pollutant because it diminishes the respiratory system’s ability to deal with all other pollutants.

(A) an especially serious pollutant because it diminishes the respiratory system’s ability to deal

(B) an especially serious pollutant because of diminishing the respiratory system’s capability of dealing

(C) an especially serious pollutant because it diminishes the capability of the respiratory system in dealing

(D) a specially serious pollutant because it diminishes the capability of the respiratory system to deal

(E) a specially serious pollutant because of diminishing the respiratory system’s ability to deal

（A）why not d

非生命的东东不是不能用所有格吗(system’s)

rt316

4－be likely to do 固定结构，排除A/B；four times as many as和four times more...than两个结构本身都没有问题。

10－E中they的指代比较模糊，没有D来得清楚简洁；此外，because...(then)...这样的结构优于(then)...because...(哈哈，不要到12题的时候问我为什么所有的选项都用了不好的表达，我们找答案是找一个相比最好的，而不是一个在语法和逻辑上都是完美无缺的)

12－如你所言，一般情况下，非生命的东东不是不能用所有格吗(system’s)，但是一来，这个范畴本来就比较模糊，二来，D的错误在于：1.capability不如ability好；2.special与especial有差异（可以查其他帖子）；3.the capability of XX to do是一个有歧异的表达，the capability to do和the capability of (XX to do) 这两种理解都可以成立

sihua

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