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gmat700+

1.        Recently discovered fossil remains strongly suggest that the Australian egg-laying mammals of today are a branch of the main stem of mammalian evolution rather than developing independently from a common ancestor of mammals more than 220 million years ago.

(A) rather than developing independently from

(B) rather than a type that developed independently from

(C) rather than a type whose development was independent of

(D) instead of developing independently from（B）

(E) instead of a development that was independent of

C选项除了比B选项啰嗦以外，还有什么语法或逻辑错误吗？我总觉得那个independently from的搭配有点怪。

rt316

whose修饰type错。develop from固定搭配

OG143

Choice B, the best answer, correctly uses the construction mammals ... are a branch... rather than a type, in which the terms compared by rather than are grammatically parallel nouns. Choices A and D fail to parallel branch with another noun, instead following rather than or instead o/with the verb phrase developing independently from.... In C, the expres­sion a type whose development was independent of a common ancestor states the opposite of the original point_that the type of mammal mentioned was thought to have developed independently of the main stem of mammalian evolution, but still to have descended from a common ancestor. Choice E repeats the error of C, further straying from the intended meaning by referring to the type as a development.

唐三彩

同意，可以理解为B选项省略了a type (of mammal)，也就是说develop的动作是mammal哦

虽然有点怪，不过还可以接受

gmat700+

以下是引用stoneren在2004-6-29 7:17:00的发言：

whose修饰type错。develop from固定搭配

OG143

Choice B, the best answer, correctly uses the construction mammals ... are a branch... rather than a type, in which the terms compared by rather than are grammatically parallel nouns. Choices A and D fail to parallel branch with another noun, instead following rather than or instead o/with the verb phrase developing independently from.... In C, the expres­sion a type whose development was independent of a common ancestor states the opposite of the original point_that the type of mammal mentioned was thought to have developed independently of the main stem of mammalian evolution, but still to have descended from a common ancestor. Choice E repeats the error of C, further straying from the intended meaning by referring to the type as a development.

谢谢！原来OG有解释，但是我在大全里竟然没有搜索到。

quiny

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