※ 引述《tim60288 (努力潰擊)》之銘言：
: 1. Used by many natural history museum curators in the preparation of animal
: skeletons for display, "dermestid beetles feed on the decaying flesh of animal
: carcasses, pulling" with its mouthparts to strip the bone of any residual fat
: or muscle tissue.
: (C) the dermestid beetle feeds on the decaying flesh of animal carcasses
: in order to pull
: (D) the dermestid beetle feeds on the decaying flesh of animal carcasses,
: pulling
: 當時沒看懂句意就選了 (C)
: 請問除了句意之外有什麼點可以刪除(C)嗎?
可以看pulling這個動作的邏輯主語, 應該是抓到beetle, in order to表目的邏輯主語
不會是beetle, 而是前面整件事
: 2. The earliest English settlers in Virginia failed to survive their first
: winter in the New World because of factors such as inadequate food supplies,
: harsh weather, and "an inability" to communicate with Native Americans.
: (A) an inability
: (E) lacking an ability
: 答案(A) 但選到了 (E)
: Such as Adj+N, Adj+N, and "Adj+N" 直覺反應這樣就刪掉了(A) : (
: 還是只是單純 N 平衡然後 an inability 優於 lacking an ability
: 感謝 : )
所謂平衡並沒有要求完全對稱, 對等連接詞只要求詞性上的平衡, 並沒有要求對稱,
當然越對稱是越好, 但是這是好壞問題（clarify）, 不是對錯問題（correctness）,
所以只要三個名詞平衡即可, 三個名詞在平衡時, 一般性的名詞像是supplies是比較
屬靜態的概念, lacking an ability是強調動作的動名詞, 平衡上會輸給an inability
表達狀態的名詞.