Their guild was composed not of family units but of individual women who enjoyed unusual legal and economic privileges.
这个题是在绝对错误和相对错误之间挑相对错误。
A more reasonable position is that Melville is a different kind of writer, who held, and should be judged by, presuppositions about fiction that are quite different from James’s.。
D选项:which occurred是非限定性定语从句,就近修饰先行词prescription drugs,在逻辑上,能被解释的肯定是“一个现象”而不是一种药。
A选项:在一个句子中,代词it如果反复出现,其必须指代同一个单数名词(they也是同样的道理)。
B选项:并列连词and身后的ing短语hoping to continue composing now that he has returned to Chicago在and身前没有平行对象。注意,此处的winning和hoping不能平行。这是因为and身前的逗号将winning prestigious awards both in London and Tokyo for his achievement at such a young age变成了插入语(两端的逗号隔开了这个短语和主句)。
B选项:which是一个定语从句,应该就近修饰一个名词。由于这里travel是复数,但其身前几乎没有复数名词,因此该定语从句没有先行词。(waves虽然是复数,但是和这个定语从句之间隔了一个层级,无法修饰到该名词)
appear as的意思是:以...出现
A选项:evidence的定语的部分为for centrally administered complex societies in northern regions of the Middle East,其核心词是societies。在逻辑上,能作为证据的肯定不是一种社会(肯定不能是“社会的证据”,只能是“社会提升的证据”,落脚点必须在动作上),而是这个社会做的一些事情。
with milky sap 乳白色的汁液,作为插入语修饰leafy spurge。
虽然知道C选项最好, 找不到A选项的错误哎。
E:显然地,这两句话并非同一时间发生,也不能用后者来修饰前者,两句分别讲了两个方面的事情,一个是接管工作,另外一个是狼的数量由猎物数量决定。
B:similar在本选项中身后缺少one another,这会使得我们不知道similar的对象是谁。
在(C)中,由于it是形式主语,所以rivaling的主语为to create an army of terra-cotta warriors
第一个条件,总卖价的平均数是21,可以这么想,也就是shirt的销售数量多从而拉低了sweater25元的价格,所以可以推测出总的销售量中shirt所占比重大
the advice comes as a nature reaction (...) = the advise was a response of (...)
like是一个介词,身后不能连接句子(some have asserted),只能连接名词或名词短语
whereas/ while/ although:
at a cost: 以...为代价,以...为成本
Their guild was composed not of family units but of individual women who enjoyed unusual legal and economic privileges.这句话是重点,说的是seamstresses和家庭无关,只和独立的女人有关。所以这些女人可以享受unusual legal and economic privileges,由于与家庭无关,那么relatives就不会享受到相同的待遇。
其实一开始会定位到tailor那几句话,但没有清晰表明relatives会被如何对待。 (kmf)