OG12 Page 737 SC 103 question

hanjiaqin

Yellow jackets number among the 900 or so species of the world's social wasps, wasps that live in a highly cooperative an organzed society consisting almost entirely of females--the queen and her sterile female worker.

Question: sentence after semicolon is underlined and above sentence is the correct choice(Choice B). But I'm confused with the choice. what's the total sensence structure for the 2 sentence? In addition, don't understand the false of choice A.

Can anyone help to analyze? Thanks.

hanjiaqin

自己先顶以下

另外: 看了以前的帖子,还是有困惑
1. number among 翻译为把.....算做?
2. 后边的句子是同位语,这点清楚了.
3. 个人认为cooperative, organized和consisting of修饰的是society.OG选项B解释是society,但OG的题的解释中却说修饰的是social wasps.

请NN解释一下.

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顶一下，我也不明白OG说的social wasps和society这个词是不是一回事？？

虽然差别不大，一个是逗号前的词，一个是-ing前紧邻的词，但还是有区别的。。。。。

OG对于正确选项B的解释又说：The three descriptors of the wasp society are in parallel form, and consisting properly modifies society.
前面俩修饰wasp society，后面consisting又修饰society了？