托福语法辅导:托福(TOEFL)考试语法问题总结
14.In geometry, an ellipse may be defined as the locus of all points —— —— distances from two fixed points is constant. A) which as the sum of B)of the sum which C) whose sum of whose D) whose sum that the选a,有人认为那是选d.我个人认为,d从语法上讲有点问题。后面的that做什么?distances又做什么?要是sum of the还说得过去但从语义上理解只能是a.我们知道,椭圆上的点到两个焦点距离之和为定量,a就是表达的这个意思。如果是c(sum of),表达的意思是所有点到两焦点距离之和为衡量,这显然是不对的,a的表达方式不大合乎我们的习惯,请大家自己记一下。As后面表示此事物的性质
15. Although (based it on) feudal models, the colony of Pennsylvania (developed) a (reputation) for a (progressive political) and social outlook.选a.这里我们讨论一下d,这里progressive是修饰outlook的,和 political and social作为整体并列,多个形容词修饰同一个名词形容词间不需要逗号或and下面是rinehart关于这个问题的讲解:political and social,是因为political、social之间是并列的一个名词是可以同时被多个形容词修饰的a tall intelligent young American professor不可能写成a tall and intelligent and young and American professor .