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帖子中另一个例题的解释:
Examples of "tulipomania," a term coined from the tulip craze of the seventeenth-century in the Netherlands, include speculative bubbles in South Seas trading rights in the 1720s, Victorian real estate in the 1880s, the U.S. stock market in the 1920s, and the obsession for Beanie Babies in the 1990s.
The tree highlights (or would highlight) a problem with parallelism in the list of four items that are examples of speculative bubbles. According to the sentence, there were speculative bubbles in trading rights, real estate, a stock market and an obsession. The first three represent the items upon which the speculative bubble was built; the fourth does not.
(A) This choice is incorrect as it repeats the original sentence.
(B) CORRECT. This choice corrects the parallelism error by removing the fourth item, the obsession, from the list of things that were speculative bubbles. Now, the sentence says that "examples... include speculative bubbles" in trading rights, real estate and the stock market and "[examples... include] the obsession for Beanie Babies." It is not necessary to repeat the words "examples include" in the second part of the sentence.
(C) While this choice corrects the parallelism error by removing the fourth item, the obsession, from the list of things that were speculative bubbles, it introduces a modifier error. The initial phrase "coined from..." is followed by the noun "examples." However, the term "tulipomania" was coined from the tulip craze; the examples were not coined from the craze.
(D) This choice does not correct the original parallelism error. According to the sentence, there were speculative bubbles in trading rights, real estate, a stock market and an obsession. The first three represent the items upon which the speculative bubble was built; the fourth does not.
(E) This choice does not correct the original parallelism error. According to the sentence, there were speculative bubbles in trading rights, real estate, a stock market and an obsession. The first three represent the items upon which the speculative bubble was built; the fourth does not. In addition,the sentence introduces confusion because it implies that the later examples of speculative bubbles were "included" in, or a part of, the original tulipomania. |
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