prep07-123 求指导

cdw

According to two teams of paleontologists, recent fossil discoveries in Pakistan show that whales, porpoises, and dolphins are more closely related tosome of the oldest known even-toed ungulates--a group of hoofed mammals that today includes cows, camels, pigs, and hippos--than to any other mammals.

(A) that whales, porpoises, and dolphins are more closely related to some of the oldest known even-toed ungulates--a group of hoofed mammals that today includes cows, camels, pigs, and hippos--than

(B) that whales, porpoises, and dolphins are more closely related to some of the oldest known even-toed ungulates--a group of hoofed mammals that today include cows, camels, pigs, and hippos--as

(C) whales, porpoises, and dolphins to be more closely related to some of the oldest known even-toed ungulates--a group of hoofed mammals that today include cows, camels, pigs, and hippos--than they are

(D) whales, porpoises, and dolphins as being more closely related to some of the oldest known even-toed ungulates--a group of hoofed mammals that today includes cows, camels, pigs, and hippos--as they are

(E) whales, porpoises, and dolphins as more closely related to some of the oldest known even-toed ungulates--a group of hoofed mammals that today include cows, camels, pigs, and hippos--than





求指导A选项这里that的用法，a group of hoofed mammals that today includes，这里的that是指代a group还是mammals，如何分辨这种情况呢？
再举个例子 a kind of birds which/that 后面应该是单数还是复数动词呢？

cdw

不要沉啊。。

imluisfigo

见CD Prep笔记210题的补充说明
Which指代小结—by aeoluseros：
以下收录官方材料中能对于which的使用，可以发现which的指代其实并没有固定死规则，不一定只指代
最近的名词，跟所有代词一样，有就近指代的的倾向，但是具体修饰对象，应该根据各种线索或者逻辑含
义来判断：
1. 尽管A of B的结构，which没有就近修饰。
561. One pervasive theory explains the introduction of breakfast cereals in the early 1900s as a result
of the growing number of automobiles, which led to a decline in horse ownership and a
subsequent grain glut; by persuading people to eat what had previously been horse feed, market
equilibrium was restored.
2.  which不一定跳过插入语指代：
462. Judge Lois Forer’s study asks why some litigants have a preferred status over others in the use of
a public resource, the courts, which in theory are available to all but in fact are unequally distributed
between rich and poor.
3. 通过单复数判断which的所指： （后面略）