[問題]GWD 29 Q30

[bonus]

Q30:
Biologists working in Spain say that their discovery of teeming life in a highly acidic river may not only broaden the search for life, or for evidence of past life, no other planets but also show that a number of forms of microscopic life can adapt to conditions that scientists have long thought hostile to all but the hardiest bacteria.

A. show that a number of forms of microscopic life can adapt to conditions that scientists have long thought hostile to all but the hardiest bacteria
B. may show that a number of forms of microscopic life is capable of adapting to conditions that scientists have long thought hostile to all bacteria but the hardiest ones
C. shows a number of forms of microscopic life to be capable to adapt to conditions that scientists have long thought had been hostile to all but the hardiest bacteria
D. showing that a number of forms of microscopic life is capable of adapting to conditions that scientists have long thought had been hostile to all but the hardiest bacteria
E. showing that a number of forms of microscopic life can adapt to conditions that scientists have long thought hostile to all bacteria but the hardiest

Answer: A

[bonus]

慣用not only ... but also ... 平衡結構
刪B, C, D, E

[kaijen]

我對答案(A)沒有疑問
想問的是其他選項
B. may show that a number of forms of microscopic life is capable of adapting to conditions that scientists have long thought hostile to all bacteria but the hardiest ones
這裡應該用is 還是 are?

all but the hardiest bacteria
all bacteria but the hardiest ones

all but=almost
兩句句意一不一樣??

[dibert8]

a number of 的動詞是複數 (i.e. are)
(A) all = forms (of microscopic life)

[Kal-El]

GWD-29-Q30
Biologists working in Spain say that their discovery of teeming life in a highly acidic river may not only broaden the search for life, or for evidence of past life, no other planets but also show that a number of forms of microscopic life can adapt to conditions that scientists have long thought hostile to all but the hardiest bacteria.

A. show that a number of forms of microscopic life can adapt to conditions that scientists have long thought hostile to all but the hardiest bacteria
B. may show that a number of forms of microscopic life is capable of adapting to conditions that scientists have long thought hostile to all bacteria but the hardiest ones
C. shows a number of forms of microscopic life to be capable to adapt to conditions that scientists have long thought had been hostile to all but the hardiest bacteria
D. showing that a number of forms of microscopic life is capable of adapting to conditions that scientists have long thought had been hostile to all but the hardiest bacteria
E. showing that a number of forms of microscopic life can adapt to conditions that scientists have long thought hostile to all bacteria but the hardiest

Ans:A

請問but also前的no other planet是修飾誰呢?
以及
這裡的thought是怎麼用的呢? 是think O. + O.C. 嗎?
以往看到的多是think of O. as O.C. 或 be thought to be/ to have Vpp~
所以這邊就怪怪的
麻煩大大解惑～

[dibert8]

no other planet 應該是 on other planets