With surface temperatures estimated at minus 230 degrees Fahrenheit, Jupiter's moon Europa has long been considered far too cold to support life, and with 60 square miles of water thought to be frozen from top to bottom.


Europa has long been considered far too cold to support life, and with

Europa has long been considered far too cold to support life, its

Europa has long been considered as far too cold to support life and has

Europa, long considered as far too cold to support life, and its

Europa, long considered to be far too cold to support life, and to have

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题目分析:
本题难度相对较大,尤其对于选项(B)和选项(C)的判定。

选项分析:

A选项:并列连词and身后是介词短语with 60 square miles of water thought to be frozen from top to bottom,但在and身前并没有能与之平行的内容,因此本选项平行有误。

B选项:Correct. 本选项在语法和逻辑上均是正确的。its 60 square miles of water thought to be frozen from top to bottom是独立主格结构。

C选项:首先,当consider是“看作(regard as)”的意思时,确实,consider A B比consider A as B要更优(原因非常简单,如果我们用regard as来替换consider的话,那其实已经有一个as了,不必要再用一个as),但是这条规则最好不要作为直接排除某些选项的原则。在GMAT考试中,永远不要出现“某某某结构或搭配必错”这样的侥幸心理。这是一个逻辑的考试,不是语法或记忆力考试。
本选项的主要错误在于并列连词and使得Europa has long been considered as far too cold to support life和Europa has 60 square miles of water thought to be frozen from top to bottom变为了并列关系。在逻辑上,显然地,“Europa有60平方英里的从顶冻到底的水”是用来描述为什么“Europa太冷了如此以至于不能生存”的,因此,两者势必是修饰关系,而不是纯粹的并列关系。

D选项:并列连词and的前后都是没有谓语动词的。

E选项:并列连词and的前后都是没有谓语动词的。Consider to be这个搭配本身没有错误,但在本题中不合适。当consider意为“看作”的时候,只能用consider A B;当consider意为“认为、以为”的时候,只能用consider A to be B。

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