几题请教

佐儿

对于状语,补语或者独立主格这样的名词突然感到很陌生了.....可以从词本身体会意思吧....但老实说,这么多年下来没用中文上语法课之后,真的有种似乎相识,又不相认的感觉......

很感谢版主的回复,不仅提醒偶, 还很悉心的把题目也复制了下来.....让偶回想起了当年的英语老师......也发现自己写文章时的一个毛病,

难怪偶当初看不出A的毛病,发现自己也常喜欢写那种结构不紧凑,又累赘的英文句子....不知道有什么方法可以改进吗?

mariezhu

juanMM

No.2 answer should be B: how a comet will be likely to...

N0.3 Choice E changes without reason the focus of the original sentence, the second element is not a surplus added to the first one. However, I do not agree on choice B, because of "had grown", for there is no reason to consider what happened in 1997 even earlier than what happened in the 1980's. I will vote for A, because there will be children anywhere in united states in any time.

juan

谢谢marie MM.

再请教：

2. Responding to the public’s fascination with----and sometimes undue alarm over-possible threats from asteroids, a scale developed by astronomers rates the likelihood that a particular asteroid or comet may collide with Earth.

B. a scale that astronomers have developed rates how likely it is for a particular asteroid or comet to

C. astronomers have developed a scale to rate how likely a particular asteroid or comet will be to ----develop a scale to rate ...好象rate的逻辑主语是astronomers,逻辑上不对。

D. astronomers have developed a scale for rating the likelihood that a particular asteroid or comet will ----develop a scale for rating ....用for doing sth解释说明a scale的目的，也没有逻辑主语的问题。

E. astronomers have developed a scale that rates the likelihood of a particular asteroid or comet that may

我还是觉得要选D，而不是C。

3. In 1981 children in the United States spent an average of slightly less than two and a half hours a week doing household chores; by 1997 they have spent nearly six hours a week.  选A的话they指代前面的children，感觉说的是同一群children，我觉得逻辑上不对呀。

B. chores; by 1997 that figure had grown to nearly six hours a week

C. chores, whereas nearly six hours a week were spent in 1997

D. chores, compared with a figure of nearly six hours a week in 1997

E. chores, that figure growing to nearly six hours a week in 1997

[此贴子已经被作者于2004-7-26 11:32:25编辑过]

LES

以下是引用juan在2004-7-24 14:24:00的发言：

3. In 1981 children in the United States spent an average of slightly less than two and a half hours a week doing household chores; by 1997 they have spent nearly six hours a week.

B. chores; by 1997 that figure had grown to nearly six hours a week

C. chores, whereas nearly six hours a week were spent in 1997

D. chores, compared with a figure of nearly six hours a week in 1997

E. chores, that figure growing to nearly six hours a week in 1997

我选E。

偶选E。

A中的they 指代有歧义，是指前面的1981年的children 还是在1997年时的children？请参考下面大全中的一题，注意两者是有区别的，下面例题中的they是有限定说明的。

还有by 1997与前面的In 1981不对称。

1. In Japan elderly people are treated with far greater respect than most Western countries.

(A) most Western countries
(B) most Western countries do
(C) most Western countries are
(D) they do in most Western countries（E）
(E) they are in most Western countries

B.错在时态上。明显的先后时间顺序与时态搭配错误。

E. 独立主格结构，平行对称。

这题以前讨论过的，偶去找找。

LES

哎呀，没有找到。

juan mm，可不可以表明一下题目的来源呢？谢谢！

rt316

以下是引用LES在2004-7-26 10:07:00的发言：

以下是引用juan在2004-7-24 14:24:00的发言：

3. In 1981 children in the United States spent an average of slightly less than two and a half hours a week doing household chores; by 1997 they have spent nearly six hours a week.

B. chores; by 1997 that figure had grown to nearly six hours a week

E. chores, that figure growing to nearly six hours a week in 1997

我选E。

偶选E。

A中的they 指代有歧义，是指前面的1981年的children 还是在1997年时的children？请参考下面大全中的一题，注意两者是有区别的，下面例题中的they是有限定说明的。

还有by 1997与前面的In 1981不对称。不赞成，都是表时间做状语，为何不对称？

B.错在时态上。明显的先后时间顺序与时态搭配错误。这个问题偶也有点困惑，但是考虑到分号断句，两个句子分别表达不同的意思，时态之间应该没有太大的联系。

E. 独立主格结构，平行对称。但是独立主格一般做状语，这个状语在这里又如何理解呢？

这题以前讨论过的，偶去找找。

juan

以下是引用LES在2004-7-26 10:12:00的发言：

哎呀，没有找到。

juan mm，可不可以表明一下题目的来源呢？谢谢！

是从朋友那看来的JJ。

LES

还有by 1997与前面的In 1981不对称。不赞成，都是表时间做状语，为何不对称？
－ by 1997与In 1981比跟In 1997与In 1981哪个更平行对称？

B.错在时态上。明显的先后时间顺序与时态搭配错误。这个问题偶也有点困惑，但是考虑到分号断句，两个句子分别表达不同的意思，时态之间应该没有太大的联系。

－虽然这里是用“；”分隔了两个独立的句子，但是他们之间的逻辑关系还是存在的。

E. 独立主格结构，平行对称。但是独立主格一般做状语，这个状语在这里又如何理解呢？

We normally explain absolute phrases by saying that they modify entire sentences, rather than one word. This is an important concept, since many similar phrases that we work with modify other words. -Cited from Mariezhu's post of Absolute Phrases.

rt316

A是两个独立的句子，用以表达两个不同的意思；E是一个独立的句子+独立主格，而这个独立主格是修饰整个主句的，从意思上它怎么修饰呢？这里的修饰实再是说不通啊。

leeon

The answer should be B;

For example:

By 1984,that number had grown to almost 20 million.

Pay attention to the word " grow".