Scientists have recently discovered what could be the largest and oldest living organism on Earth, a giant fungus that is an interwoven filigree of mushrooms and rootlike tentacles spawned by a single fertilized spore some 10,000 years ago and extending for more than 30 acres in the soil of a Michigan forest.
(A) extending
(B) extends
(C) extended
(D) it extended
(E) is extending
Answer:(A)
Explanation (A): This sentence has the participles spawned and extending in a correct parallel construction. Spawned referes to something that happened in the past, while extending refers to something that continues into the present.
(已參考過本板討論區和CD討論區,確定沒有前輩問過這個問題...若是小妹失誤沒找到...也請各位前輩指引...)
小妹選(C),大多數人會選的錯誤答案
Explanation (C): Extended looks parallel to spawned, but this phrase would mean that the fungus extended only in the pst when the fungus clearly lives on in the present
完全能夠了解spawned和extend是用來修飾feligree...這個不是問題
如果按標準答案還原,應該還原成that extended, 如此省略that後才會變成extending...還原後如下
, a giant fungus {that is an interwoven filigree of mushrooms and rootlik tentacles [that was spawned by a single (fertilized spore some 10,000 years ago)] and [that extended for more than 30 acres in the soil of a ㄩichigan forest.]}
(note:成對括號表子句,其中[]和[]平行對稱)
我的問題在於粗體部份...如果按照題意和解釋...feligree應該是從以前到現在一直長,長到現在超過30 acres...但是extended的還原方式好像又不合解釋說法,因為解釋(C)認為felegree不只在過去成長,而是現在還活著...
而小妹的想法,認為句子還原後應該變成and having extended for more than 30 arcres...但這樣卻又不是標準答案
看到CD上有些前輩認為還原後應該是is extending...但這樣寫起來就沒有從以前長到現在的意義...好像也不太符合(C)的解釋...
不知道有沒有哪位前輩可以幫忙將省略that前的形態還原一下？ 謝謝 謝謝
