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135. The brain is something of a stimulus reduction system, a means to reduce, in order to comprehend, the nearly infinite amount of stimuli that reach the senses at any given moment.

(A) a means to reduce, in order to comprehend, the nearly infinite amount

(B) a means to reduce, in order to comprehend, the nearly infinite number

(C) the means of reducing for comprehending the nearly infinite number

(D) the means that reduces, in order to comprehend, the nearly infinite amount（B）

(E) the means for reducing in order to comprehend the nearly infinite amount

搞不懂in order to  在这里是什么成分，给出的答案是b，不是很明白d有什么不妥之处

that从句和不定式在修饰上是哪个更为优先考虑呢，在这里怎么用了不定式，xdjm帮忙指点一下了

36.   Unlike the Shiites, who constitute the other major branch of Islam, the Sunnites do not await the Mahdi as a messenger from God, nor do they endow him with divine qualities or immunity from failure in judgment.

(A) nor do they endow him

(B) but they do not endow him

(C) neither do they endow him

(D) and they neither endow him（A）

(E) while endowing him neither

给出的答案是a，a可以，c怎么就不行了呢，neither 和nor 在用法上有什么不同？

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接问:1.amount和number的这个语法点倒是不多见,amount只修饰单数形式对么?

     2.对于动词不定式和从句在修饰上哪个是可以优先考虑的,我不是很明白,不过我在作提的过程中,大部分给出的答案

都是倾向于用不定式修饰而不用从句,是不是说明不定式在某种程度上是优先于从句的?请看下面这题

74.   Not until the Enlightenment, some 200 years ago, had society seriously questioned the right of the state that it could execute its citizens.

(A) had society seriously questioned the right of the state that it could execute

(B) did society seriously questioned the right of the state that it could execute

(C) had society seriously questioned the right of the state for the executing of

(D) did society seriously question the right of the state to execute（D）

(E) had society seriously questioned whether the state had a right that it could execute

给出的答案是d用的是to execute 修饰right,而没有用b中的that从句,还有这里not until不是要用完成时态的标志么，怎么用了过去时..不解

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35.

stimuli 是stimulus的复数形式，所以要用number而不是amount。

in order to 是插入语。

36.

用neither时，否定的谓语部分与前面相同；而Nor在当两个独立句子中的第二个也被否时被用，在这种用法中，它也引起第二个句子主语和助动词的转变，也就是说谓语部分与前面不同。