As criminal activity on the Internet becomes more and more sophisticated, not only are thieves able to divert cash from company bank accounts, they can also pilfer valuable information such as business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans, and sell the data to competitors.
they can also pilfer valuable information such as business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans, and sell
they can also pilfer valuable information that includes business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans, and selling
also pilfering valuable information including business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans, selling
but also pilfer valuable information such as business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans to sell
but also pilfering valuable information such as business development strategies, new product specifications, and contract bidding plans and selling
题目分析:
本题比较难。很多考生一看到未划线部分有一个not only,然后立刻就在选项中找but also。实际上,not only…but also…确实是一个习惯表达,但是并不是唯一正确的习惯表达。可以用not only…but…,也可以用not only…also…。
选项分析:
A选项:Correct. 本选项在语法和逻辑上均是正确的。
B选项:and身后的selling the data to competitors是一个分词短语,该分词短语在and身前并没有平行对象。
C选项:pilfering valuable information是分词短语。句型not only…but also…中,not only和but also必须各自引导一个完整的句子,需要有完整的主谓结构。(当然,not only…but also…和and做连词是一个道理,也可以因为省略现象而只连接两个功能相同的部分。本题中的not only身后就是一个完整句,所以but also身后也必须是完整句)
D选项:句型not only…but also…中,not only和but also必须各自引导一个完整的句子,本选项的but also身后缺少主语。
E选项:pilfering valuable information是分词短语错误同(C)。
我记得有蛮多题类似 they not only .........but also......这种,所以不一定这个结构后面各自加完整句子吧..........
eg: By pressing a tiny amount of nitrogen between two diamonds to a pressure of 25 million pounds per square inch, scientists @not only were able to transform the gas into a solid, but they also created@ a semiconductor similar to silicon.
ans: C. were able not only to transform the gas into a solid but to create
这题的平行结构是…they can also pilfer information… and sell data…,such as引导三个例子,piler 和sell平行。
D没有很平行...not only are thieves....but also pilfer....,我记得Ron在200x年左右的一条帖子里说过平行里一个有be,另一个也需要有,否则就都不要有。(不知道现在规矩变了没)而且to sell修饰的只是contract bidding plans,而不是全部,这是和原文相悖的。
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