Prep2-70

jessicasonia

70.
Results from the 1998 National Demographic and Health Survey confirm that, even when
compared with densely populated countries like Thailand and Indonesia, the Philippine nation's
fertility rates consistently exceed all of its Southeast Asian neighbors.
(A) like Thailand and Indonesia, the Philippine nation's fertility rates consistently exceed all of
(B) like Thailand and Indonesia, the Philippine nation consistently exhibits fertility rates exceeding
all
(C) such as Thailand and Indonesia, the fertility rates exhibited by the Philippine nation are
consistently exceeding those of all
(D) such as Thailand and Indonesia, the Philippine nation's fertility rates consistently exceed all
those of
(E) such as Thailand and Indonesia, the Philippine nation consistently exhibits fertility rates that
exceed those of all

答案是E,  我选了D, 解释说：D. compared with将countries和fertility rate比较，比较对象不对等
我不太理解，D 是 Philippine nation's fertility rates 和 those of ....比，those 应该是指代fertility rates啊。
请教各位xdjm

elvisc

Results from the 1998 National Demographic and Health Survey confirm that, even when   compared with densely populated countries like Thailand and Indonesia, the Philippine nation's   fertility rates consistently exceed all of its Southeast Asian neighbors.
(A) like Thailand and Indonesia, the Philippine nation's fertility rates consistently exceed all of
(B) like Thailand and Indonesia, the Philippine nation consistently exhibits fertility rates exceedingall
(C) such as Thailand and Indonesia, the fertility rates exhibited by the Philippine nation are   consistently exceeding those of all
(D) such as Thailand and Indonesia, the Philippine nation's fertility rates consistently exceed allthose of
(E) such as Thailand and Indonesia, the Philippine nation consistently exhibits fertility rates thatexceed those of all  Idiom：举例必须用such as 排除AB
Parallelism：有两个平衡
1、compared with densely poupulated COUNTRIES...COUNTRIES 排除CD
2、the FERTILITY RATE exceed THOSE of SA neighbors排除AB

SMARTCATHYT

D 肯定不对。该了all those of，随意变动修饰语。但是C为什么不对？谁来帮我解答解答？是不是exceeding不能用现在分词？

suzanneyy

如果把句子simplified:
D: ...even when (the Philippine nation's fertility rates are) compared with densely populated countries such as Thailand and Indonesia, the Philippine nation's fertility rates consistently exceed all those of...
E: ...even when (the Philippine nation are) compared with densely populated countries such as Thailand and Indonesia, the
Philippine nation consistently exhibits fertility rates that exceed those of all...
E is the only correct choice ;-)