Like the grassy fields and old pastures that the upland sandpiper needs for feeding and nesting when it returns in May after wintering in the Argentine Pampas, the sandpipers vanishing in the northeastern United States is a result of residential and industrial development and of changes in farming practices.


the sandpipers vanishing in the northeastern United States is a result of residential and industrial development and of changes in

the bird itself is vanishing in the northeastern United States as a result of residential and industrial development and of changes in

that the birds themselves are vanishing in the northeastern United States is due to residential and industrial development and changes to

in the northeastern United States, sandpipers' vanishing is due to residential and industrial development and to changes in

in the northeastern United States, the sandpipers' vanishing, a result of residential and industrial development and changing

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题目分析:
原句中出现了比较词like,其连接的两者需要保持对等,仅凭此点可以排除(C)(D)(E)。(A)(B)两个选项的考点识别有一定难度。

选项分析:

A选项:比较对象没有问题,即,用“农场”和“鸟”比较(此两者均在消失)。但是,本选项中的vanishing in the northeastern United States是现在分词短语,做the sandpipers的定语。这会使得the sandpipers成为is a result of residential and industrial development的主语,但在逻辑上,一种鸟不可能是一个结果,只能说在鸟身上发生的某些事情是一个结果。

B选项:Correct. 本选项在语法和逻辑上均是正确的。as a result of residential and industrial development做the bird itself is vanishing in the northeastern United States的状语。

C选项:未划线部分出现的like身后的内容和划线部分的主语不匹配,the grassy fields and old pastures不能和主语从句(发生在鸟身上的事)对比。

D选项:
like连接的对比对象不对等,不能用the grassy fields and old pastures和sandpipers' vanishing比较。

E选项:
like连接的对比对象不对等,不能用the grassy fields and old pastures和sandpipers' vanishing比较;整个句子没有谓语动词。

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