2012年04月02日
考试类型: Writing > Improving Sentences
Part or all of the following sentence is underlined; beneath the sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Select the option that produces the best sentence. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A.
The first 10,000 United States patents, known to be the X-patents, were burned in a fire in 1836.
A. to be
B. to have been
C. as
D. as they were
E. as being
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正确答案:C 解析: Choice (C) is correct. It avoids the error of the original by using the idiomatic “knownas” instead of the awkward and unidiomatic “known to be.” |