一道语法题？

swlfxer

The single-family house constructed by the Yana, a Native American people who lived in what is now northern California, was conical圆锥形的 in shape, its framework of poles overlaid with slabs of bark, either cedar or pine, and banked with dirt to a height of three to four feet.


A.banked with dirt to a height of
B.banked with dirt as high as that of
C.banked them with dirt to a height of

• was banked with dirt as high as
• was banked with dirt as high as that of
  答案选A，请求牛人帮我分析下。。月底考。。一塌糊涂。。拜托了。。

zhaoyiqing

这个句子的结构是：主语，主语修饰词的同位语，was conical，独立主格。在这里的独立主格是名词＋过去分词的格式。
B选项错在不该在as后加that，直接 as high as ree to four feet就可以了，that多余。除非as high as 比较的是另一个物体，才需要that。
C选项：banked已经是个过去分词，是被动的意思（由于独立主格省略了谓语is），接them就是 is banked them，不知道是什么意思了。

chengzhiying

The single-family house constructed by the Yana, a Native American people who lived in what is now northern California, was conical圆锥形的 in shape, its framework of poles overlaid with slabs of bark, either cedar or pine, and banked with dirt to a height of three to four feet.
A.banked with dirt to a height of
B.banked with dirt as high as that of
C.banked them with dirt to a height of
D.was banked with dirt as high as
E.was banked with dirt as high as that of
句子结构；
the single-family house, was conical in shape, its framework....
首先看and之后的动词是bank with，然后判断bank with的主语是前面的house还是后面的framwork of poles.很明显bank的主语是poles,所以and之后划线部分要与overlaid with slabs of bark平行。 排除D,E
然后看搭配， a height of是固定搭配，排除B。剩下A和C，C里面那个them不对，连起来就是its framework of poles banked them with，有指代问题。所以就剩下A了

swlfxer

万分感谢~

applejsjs

补充一个as high as vs. to a height of

First, there's the "as high as" problem. You don't use a construction like that unless you're:
(a) giving some sort of limitation on the height of something, and/or
(b) trying to emphasize the extreme height of something.
During the turbulent fall season, Lake Superior can have waves as high as 18 feet.
--> this is an appropriate usage. 18 feet is extremely high for a wave on a lake (!), so "as high as" makes sense here.
Also, we're saying that 18 feet is an upper bound.
Since this problem is doing neither of these, "to a height of" is better.

xiaotangyu

同意三楼，主要是考平行和从句层次（删除CDE），另外考简练（A）