[求助] gwd-17-12

dreamflyingS

Mauritius was a British colony for almost 200 years, excepting for the domains of administration and teaching, the English language was never really spoken on the island.

1. excepting for
2. except in
3. but except in
4. but excepting for
5. with the exception of

ans.C

请教NN except的用法...晕...

himba

首先句子中有两个动词was，所以必须有连词。感觉GMAT中except通常理解作介词不作连词，所以 A, B,E排除。用excepting for+名词在句首通常表明此名词和主语是同类，这里明显the domains 和the English language不是一类事物而是和the island可比。所以选C. excepting for除...之外（被排除的概念）。