South Korea has witnessed the world’s most dramatic growth of Christian congregations;church membership is expanding by 6.6 percent a year, fully two-thirds of the growth coming from conversions rather than the population increasing. (B)
A coming from conversions rather than the population increasing
B coming from conversions rather than increases in the population
C coming from conversions instead of the population’s increasing
D is from conversions instead of population increases
E is from conversions rather than increasing the population
Rather than 优于instead of , 排除C D
E 中,Rather than前面是conversion,后面是increasing the population, 无法并列,排除。
关键在A 和B无法区分, A 中,conversion 与population并列,increasing 是作为population的定语。 B 中,conversion 和increases 并列。
不过分析的顺序有点问题,首先rather than的确在用词的倾向性上比 instead of 要好,但是instead of在语法上并没有错误,所以不能首先排除CD 只能说 ABE可能会比CD好些,这个好些也仅仅能在没有别的语法差别的情况下这么说。
这个题目首先可以排除的肯定是DE两个选项,
原文中 fully 2/3 of the growth coming from这个结构并不是一个句子而是一个独立主格状语
但是在DE中 fully ... is from 直接就是一个句子 那么和主句放在一起的时候就变成了两个句子并列,且不说逻辑意思的不匹配,光绝对语法上就少了连词。所以排除DE