A study of food resources in the North Pacific between 1989 and 1996 revealed that creatures of the seabed were suffering from dwindling food supplies, possibly a result from increasing sea surface temperatures during the same period.
A. that creatures of the seabed were suffering from dwindling food supplies, possibly a result from increasing
B. that creatures of the seabed were suffering because food supplies were dwindling, possibly as a result of an increase in
C. that creatures of the seabed were suffering because of food supplies, which were dwindling possibly as a result of increasing creatures of the seabed that were suffering from food supplies that were dwindling, possibly resulting from an increase in
D. creatures of the seabed that were suffering because food supplies were dwindling, which possibly resulted from increasing
E. creatures of the seabed that were suffering because food supplies were dwindling, which possibly resulted from increasing
(A) sb. suffer from B,表示sb.遭受了B, B表示的是遭受的结果,因此使用dwindling不好,现在分词一般表示过程, 应该使用名词或过去分词表示结果; 同样increasing也不好, result from后面接事实,表示原因, 应该用increased或者an increase来代替increasing
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个人认为,A有以下两个重大问题:
1)a result这里是名词性同位语,但好像GMAT中用一个名词概括前面一整件事情的情况很少见;
2)result做名词时,后面直接加from非常奇怪,一般应作为动词短语出现,sth. result from sth.
而B选项中,as a result of却清楚地展现了因果关系。
怪得有腔调 发表于 2013-11-19 12:46
(A) sb. suffer from B,表示sb.遭受了B, B表示的是遭受的结果,因此使用dwindling不好,现在分词一般表示过 ...
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我觉得dwindling是修饰food supplies的,所以没有问题吧~莫非是这里suffer from 和suffer之间的区别?好纠结啊
而且B里面的a result of an increase in 这种表达感觉很awkward。。
从句意上来讲,我觉得都差不多。。sigh。。
看几个例子:
He stood silent in the moon-light,his door open.月光下,门开着,他默默地站立在那。 (伴随)
Winter coming,it gets colder and colder.冬天来了,天气越来越冷了。 (因果)
More time given,we should have done it much better.如果给我们更多的时间,我们会做得更好。(假设条件)
The boy stood there,his right hand raised.那个男生站在那里,右手高举。 (伴随)
Here are the first two volumes,the third one to come out next month.这是前两卷,第三卷将于下月问世。(伴随)
The huntsman entered the forest,gun in hand.那位猎人手里提着枪走进了树林。 (伴随)
Nobody in,the thief took a lot of things away.由于没有人,小偷拿走了许多东西。(因果)
Lunch over,he left the house.午饭结束,他离开屋。 (时间状语)
He fought the wolf,a stick his only weapon.他和狼搏斗着,唯一的武器是一根棍棒。(伴随)
能够构成独立组个两个成分间逻辑要有联系。如此处: A study revealed..., a result from. "A result from"与主句没有逻辑联系。再如, I love traveling, nobody accompanied. 可以。 I love traveling, Jack in France. 不可以,我喜欢旅游和JACK在法国,哪跟哪?!
独立主格其本质就是名词性的修饰,需要能够在逻辑上apply到主句。下面这个句子我看来和之前的句子同样的错误。
Emily Dickinson's letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan's marriage to Emily's brother and ending shortly before Emily's death in 1886, outnumbering her letters to anyone else.
Letters were written over..., outnumbering....
这里outnumbering修饰不了letter were written,因为这些信在什么时间写,和写信数量的情况没有逻辑联系。
语法对不一定对,要语法载体下的逻辑内涵也对才是对。
回到原题,a result from实际上要修饰的是主句的that定语从句中的 creature suffer的原因。