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135. Sixty-five million years ago, according to some scientists, an asteroid bigger than Mount Everest slammed into North America, which, causing plant and animal extinctions, marks the end of the geologic era known as the Cretaceous Period.
A. which, causing plant and animal extinctions, marks
B. which caused the plant and animal extinctions marking
C. and causing plant and animal extinctions that mark
D. an event that caused plant and animal extinctions, and it marks
E. an event that caused the plant and animal extinctions that mark
D: and it marks是独立的句子，逻辑上无法与主句并列。
E: correct

137. Complex human traits such as artistic talent or social skill are likely to be shaped by thousands, if not tens of thousands, of the 80.000 or so genes in the human genome.
A. such as artistic talent or social skill are likely to be shaped by thousands, if not tens of thousands, of the 80,000 or so
B. such as artistic talent or social skill are likely shaped by thousands, if not tens of thousands, of 80,000 or so of the
C. such as artistic talent or social skill is likely to be shaped by thousands, if not tens of thousands, of 80,000 or so of the
D. like artistic talent or social skill is likely to be shaped by thousands, if not tens of thousands, of the 80,000 or so
E. like artistic talent or social skill are likely shaped by thousands, if not tens of thousands, of the 80,000 or so
the 80000 or so genes.与80000 or so of the genes.意思不同：前者是80000多个genes（总共这些），后者是genes中的80000多个（言外之意，还有更多genes）。OG上有类似的例题。
A: correct
B: likely to do固定搭配；80000前面要加the
C: is应该用are；数字前面要加the

141. Astronomers have uncovered evidence that a star that was as bright as the full moon exploding into view 340.000 years ago, emitting dazzling radiation that could have disrupted Earth's protective ozone layer and sunburned our Stone Age ancestors.
A. that a star that was as bright as the full moon exploding into view 340,000 years ago, emitting
B. that a star as bright as the full moon exploded into view 340,000 years ago, emitting
C. of a star that was as bright as the full moon exploding into view 340,000 years ago and that it emitted
D. of a star as bright as the full moon, exploding into view 340,000 years ago and emitting
E. of a star as bright as the full moon that exploded into view 340,000 years ago and that emitted
A: that同位语从句后面没有谓语
B: correct
C: of结构改变了原意；it没有指代（and that it没有并列对象）
D: 同上，exploding… and emitting优先修饰moon，有歧义。
E: 同上；that指代moon错

142. To protect English manufacturers of woolen goods both against American and Irish competition, England passed the Woolens Act of 1698, which prohibited the export of woolen cloth beyond a colony's borders.
A. To protect English manufacturers of woolen goods both against American and Irish competition, England passed the Woolens Act of 1698
B. In order to protect English manufacturers of woolen goods against both American and Irish competition, England passed the Woolens Act of 1698
C. In order to protect English manufacturers of woolen goods against American, as well as against Irish, competition, the Woolens Act of 1698 was passed by England
D. For protecting English manufacturers of woolen goods against American, as well as Irish, competition, England passed the Woolens Act of 1698
E. For the protection of English manufacturers of woolen goods against both American and Irish competition, the Woolens Act of 1698, passed by England
A: both .. and .. 不对称
B: correct
C: which 指代England错
D: 表目的用to do
E: 同上(无谓语)

rossyx

145. Many environmentalists, and some economists, say that free trade encourages industry to relocate to countries with ineffective or poorly enforced antipollution laws, mostly in the developing world, and that, in order to maintain competitiveness, rich nations have joined this downward slide toward more lax attitudes about pollution.
A. that, in order to maintain competitiveness, rich nations have joined this downward slide toward more lax attitudes about pollution
B. that, for maintaining competitiveness, rich nations join in this downward slide toward more lax attitudes about pollution
C. that rich nations join this downward slide toward more lax attitudes about pollution because of wanting to maintain competitiveness
D. that in rich nations, joining this downward slide toward more lax attitudes about pollution is a result of wanting to maintain competition
E. that wanting to maintain competition is making rich nations join in this downward slide toward an attitude about pollution that is more lax
A: correct
B: for + doing 表目的错
CD: because of + doing 错；wanting to do 就等于to do
E: 同上；that 修饰pollution错

155. The bones of Majungatholus atopus, a meat-eating dinosaur that is a distant relative of Tyrannosaurus rex and closely resembles South American predatory dinosaurs, have been discovered in Madagascar.
A.        The bones of Majungatholus atopus, a meat-eating dinosaur that is a distant relative of Tyrannosaurus rex and closely resembles South American predatory dinosaurs, have been discovered in Madagascar.
B.        The bones of a meat-eating dinosaur, Majungatholus atopus, a distant relative of Tyrannosaurus rex and with a close resemblance to South American predatory dinosaurs, has been discovered in Madagascar.
C.        In Madagascar, the bones of a meat-eating dinosaur, Majungatholus atopus, distantly related to Tyrannosaurus rex and closely resembled South American predatory dinosaurs, have been discovered.
D.        A distant relative of Tyrannosaurus rex, bearing a close resemblance to South American predatory dinosaurs is Majungatholus atopus, a meat-eating dinosaur, the bones of which have been discovered in Madagascar.
E.        A distant relative of Tyrannosaurus rex and closely resembling South American predatory dinosaurs, the bones of meat-eating dinosaur, Majungatholus atopus, have been discovered in Madagascar.
A: correct
B: has 应该改成have
C: distantly related改变原文句意
D: 改变原文句意逻辑结构
E: a distant relative 和the bones不能做同位语

157. In the mod-1920s the Hawthorne Works of the Western Electric Company was the scene of an intensive series of experiments that would investigate changes in working conditions as to their effects on workers’ performance.
A.        that would investigate changes in working conditions as to their effects on workers’ performance
B.        investigating the effects that changes in working conditions would have on workers’ performance
C.        for investigating what the effects on workers’ performance are that changes in working conditions would cause
D.        that investigated changes in working conditions’ effects on workers’ performance
E.        to investigate what the effects changes in working conditions would have on workers’ performance
大全上的题目
A: their没有指代
B: correct（investigating现在分词作experiments的后置定语，the effects是investigate的宾语，that引导的是effects的定语从句）
C: that没有指代
D: conditions’ effects 改变原意（是changes in working condition’s effects还是changes in working condition’s effects，表达不清楚）
E: changes in working conditions would have做定语修饰the effects，what the effects没有谓语。

164. In the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. the United States acquired 828.000 square miles for about four cents an acre, which more than doubled the country's size and that brought its western border within reach of the Pacific Ocean.
A. In the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, the United States acquired 828,000 square miles for about four cents an acre, which more than doubled the country's size and that brought
B. For about four cents an acre the United States acquired, in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, 828,000 square miles, more than doubling the country's size and it brought
C. With the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the United States acquired 828,000 square miles for about four cents an acre, more than doubling its size and bringing
D. The United States, in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, for about four cents an acre, acquired 828,000 square miles, more than doubling the country's size, bringing
E. Acquiring 828,000 square miles in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, the United States bought it for about four cents an acre, more than doubling the country's size and bringing
A: which more than的which没有指代对象
B: it没有指代
C: correct
D: bringing应该和doubling平行，用and链接
E: it没有指代

rossyx

165. Blaming its recent troubles on a widening recession and slow rate of technology spending, the computer company announced that it would cut 10 percent of its workforce—more than 2.000 jobs—and expected to report a loss in its third quarter.
A. company announced that it would cut 10 percent of its workforce—more than 2,000 jobs—and expected to report a
B. company announced that there would be a cut—10 percent of its workforce, which was more than 2,000 jobs—and expected a reported
C. company announced the cutting of its workforce by 10 percent, more than 2,000 jobs, and it expected a reported
D. company's announcement included the cutting of its workforce by 10 percent, or more than 2,000 jobs, and expecting to report a
E. company's announcement included cutting its workforce—which is more than 2,000 jobs—and expecting there to be a reported
A: correct
B: there would be a cut错，应该用主谓结构表达；reported改变句意，
C: announced the cutting of错，应该用从句；同上
DE: blaming不能修饰announcement

166. Nine months after the county banned jet skis and other water bikes from the tranquil waters of Puget Sound, a judge overturned the ban on the ground of violating state laws for allowing the use of personal watercraft on common waterways.
A. of violating state laws for allowing
B. of their violating state laws to allow
C. that it violates state laws that allowed
D. that it violated state laws allowing
E. that state laws were being violated allowing
on the ground(s) that…: if you do sth on the grounds of a particular thing, that thing is the reason for your action.
The court overturned that decision on the grounds that the Prosecution has withheld crucial evidence.
on the ground(s) of +noun.
Owen was against it, on the grounds of expense.
A: 此处应该用同位语从句
B: 同上
their的指代有问题，to allow表示目的，其逻辑主语有a judge的嫌疑，原文allow…是laws的定语
C: violates应该用过去式；that allowed用allowing更简洁
D: correct
E: 被动语态没必要，逻辑意思表达也错

171. Even though it was not illegal for the bank to share its customers' personal and financial information with an outside marketing company in return for a commission on sales, the state's attorney general accused the bank of engaging in deceptive business practices by failing to honor its promise to its customers to keep records private.
A. by failing to honor its promise to its customers to keep
B. by its failure of honoring its promise to its customers to keep
C. in its failing to honor its promise to its customers of keeping
D. because of its failure in honoring its promise to its customers in keeping
E. because of its failure to honor its promise to its customers of keeping
A: correct
B: failure不如failing简洁
C: its failing是动名词不简洁，promise to do或promise that..，而不是promise of doing或promise in doing
D: 同上(我感觉用because表达因果关系有点改变原意,原文是by doing表方式)