A long-term study of some 1,000 physicians indicates that the more coffee these doctors drank, the more they had a likelihood of coronary disease.
more they had a likelihood of coronary disease
more was their likelihood of having coronary disease
more they would have a likelihood to have coronary disease
greater was their likelihood of having coronary disease
greater was coronary disease likely
题目分析:
the more…the more…是一个英语中的习惯用法,例如:The harder he worked, the more he got. 一般说来,两个the more后面都需要加上一个完整的主谓结构。有些情况下,动词甚至整个主谓结构均可以省略,例如:
The sooner, the better. (越快越好)
在本句中,正常的语序应为:If these doctors drank more coffee, their likelihood of having coronary disease was greater.
选项分析:
A选项:本选项在语法上出现了问题,如果按照题目分析给出的方式还原,则有:
they had a likelihood of coronary disease more.
more只能修饰形容词(或放在形容词能放的地方,例如放在表语的位置上),而不能修饰动词。另外,more这个词本身的意思在本题中也是不正确的,likelihood的意思是“可能性”,只有更大的可能性和更小的可能性,没有“更多(more)”的可能性。
另外,在措辞上,我们不能说sb have the likelihood,只能说sb's likelihood。这是因为,不能说,某人“有”一个做某事可能性,只能说某人做某事“的”可能性。
B选项:more放的位置没有问题了,表语位置上可以安放形容词,例如:
She is beautiful.
但是,more这个词本身的意思在本题中不正确,解释同(A)。
C选项:more的位置和意思错误同(A)。另外,本选项中应将a likelihood to have改为a likelihood of having。这点考查了“不定式和ing的区别”。用之于本题,likelihood表示可能性,当我们谈及某件事的可能性时,这件事不会发生任何状态的转变(例如:小明上学的可能性是15%,这句话中的事件“小明上学”依然是处于稳定状态的,不会因为可能性有多少而发生或者结束(仅是预测一件事的可能性,当然不会让一件事开始)。)。
D选项:Correct. 本选项在逻辑和语法上均是正确的。
E选项:likely是副词,只能修饰非名词的内容。因此,其在本选项中不能修饰名词coronary disease,只能修饰动词was。但在逻辑上,应该是患上病的可能性更大,而不是was的可能性,因此,本选项中likely的修饰对象不正确。
If these doctors drank more coffee, their likelihood of having coronary disease was greater.
可能性并非拥有的,而是客观存在的,所以是ing
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