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ytrrew

263. In A.D. 391, resulting from the destruction of the largest library of the ancient world at Alexandria, later generations lost all but the Iliad and Odyssey among Greek epics, most of the poetry of Pindar and Sappho, and dozens of plays by Aeschylus and Euripides.

(A) resulting from the destruction of the largest library of the ancient world at Alexandria,

(B) the destroying of the largest library of the ancient world at Alexandria resulted and

(C) because of the result of the destruction of the library at Alexandria, the largest of the ancient world,

(D) as a result of the destruction of the library at Alexandria, the largest of the ancient world,（D）

(E) Alexandria’s largest library of the ancient world was destroyed, and the result was

D, the best choice, uses the idiomatic as a result of and conveys information unambiguously. In A, the phrase that begins resulting from cannot properly modify later generations. The word order of the largest library of the ancient world at Alexandria generates ambiguity: one possible reading is that the ancient world was located at Alexandria. Choice B is incorrect. Although an “-ing” verb such as destroying can sometimes act as a noun, in this case the usage is strained. Again, at Alexandria is ambiguous (as in choice A). Choice B also uses resulted ungrammatically and produces a run-on sentence (In A.D. 391, the destroying... resulted and later generations lost). In C, the phrase because of the result of is unidiomatic as well as redundant. The structure of E illogically suggests that there was more than one largest library of the ancient world and that only Alexandria’s was destroyed. Furthermore, the result was should instead be the result was that.

我觉得D也有问题呀，它的同位语可能是修饰ALXANDRIA的呀，如果可能的话，不就也就造成句意模糊了，虽然我知道ETS偏爱同位修饰。谢谢

mjiirggh

应该不会。the largest 明显省略了library，所以不可能是Alexandria的同位语。看了这题后，我认为同位语如同which be+名词的非限性定语从句，可以跳跃修饰。