GWD-31-Q15

Reptiles, by drawing their body heat directly from the Sun rather than burning calories to generate it, can survive on ten percent of the nourishment that a mammal of similar size would normally require

A: rather than burning calories to generate it

B: rather than the generation of body heat by burning calories

C: and not from generating it by burning calories

D: instead of by burning calories for generating it

E: instead of body heat generated by burning calories

我选A，答案选E.

rather than 前后意思表示对比，一般要求结构应该平行对称，所以感觉上答案像A，但仔细看看，burning calories to generate it 与drawing their body heat directly from the Sun 逻辑上并不平行，burning calories 只是drawing body heat 的一种方法。

另外，一般来说， rather than 优于instead of，但这里只有E符合前后平行对称的要求，body heat directly from the Sun 和body heat generated by burning calories平行对称，所以选E

我也选的A。说选E的理由是平行结构，可是哪跟哪平行啊？

by drawing body heat from the sun, instead of generating body heat by burning calories，这才平行啊。E不是也很乱吗，前面是分词，后面又是名词的

而且A意思也通啊，通过日照获得体温，而不是燃烧热量产生体温

有愿意讨论的吗？

i think the answer is E. cuz' the "it" in choice A has no reference. you cannot use "it" to refer to the heat at that time. that's different heat!  there are some other questions about "it" in gwd.

although rather than is better than instead of. but its not 100% correct! still depends on the sentence and the usage.!

open to discuss

同意楼上关于it的说法。。另外，E中instead of 后是否能看作是省略了动词drawing呢？这样前后不就平行了么

支持楼上的，it是绝对错误，instead of和rather than是相对错误