请教og158，谢谢

sunshining

158.With only 5 percent of the world's population, United States citizens consume 28 percent of its
nonrenewable resources, drive more than one-third of its automobiles, and use 21 times more water per
capita than Europeans do.
(A) With
(B) As
(C) Being
(D) Despite having
(E) Although accounting for

答案是E，ETS说表达转折意识，想请问C为什么不对呢？如果也加上although，是不是就对了呢？如果本句没有转折意思，C是不是也对呢？

谢谢

hope_forus

以下是引用sunshining在2004-7-9 12:10:00的发言：

158.With only 5 percent of the world's population, United States citizens consume 28 percent of its
nonrenewable resources, drive more than one-third of its automobiles, and use 21 times more water per
capita than Europeans do.
(A) With
(B) As
(C) Being
(D) Despite having
(E) Although accounting for

答案是E，ETS说表达转折意识，想请问C为什么不对呢？如果也加上although，是不是就对了呢？如果本句没有转折意思，C是不是也对呢？

谢谢

我试试解释一下. 如果选c, 作为分词短语修饰, 就成了United States citizens  are only 5 percent of the world's population, 逻辑意思不对!

sunshining

斑竹，我问的是C啊，不是D

sunshining

3楼的能解释一下，为什么用分词不对呢？

being和accounting for不是都表达美国人口占世界人口的5%吗？

只是缺少一个转折意思吗？

rt316

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另：发贴前请‘搜索’，谢谢！

sunshining

嗯，谢谢两位斑竹，看来还是有点受汉语的影响，比如说“美国人占世界人口的5%”或“美国人是世界人口的5％”，好像口语中都可以，所以选C和E犹豫了。

那请问斑竹，是不是表达这种统计数据，都用accout for啊？

rt316

sorry，这个倒是没有做过统计，不过在这种情况下用account for就先记住吧。

tiger1234

I think this one is idiomatic.  If you have two cakes in the room, you don't say "The cake on the left has 50% of the cakes in this room."  Instead, you say "The cake on the left accounts for 50% of the cakes in this room."   

claire_wen

為什麼我覺得不能選C的原因就只是因為being並不能夠傳達"contrast"的語感呢?也就是說需要有although字眼才能使句子通順.其實OG也只點明這個錯誤原因, 並未提到being有無問題...

不過如果是這樣,那although being only 5% of the world's population,.....算對嗎?

先感謝NN回答囉^^

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henry_guo1982

In my opinion, it is the subject that decides whether to use have or account for.

China has the population of 1 bn.

The population of China is 1 bn.

But we cannot say "China citizens have/are the population of 1 bn."