※ 引述《heystranger (森V森V)》之銘言：
: 24. The Iroquois were primarily planters, but supplementing their cultivation
: of maize, squash, and beans with fishing and hunting.
: (A) but supplementing
: (B) and had supplemented
: (C) and even though they supplemented
: (D) although they supplemented(O)
: (E) but with supplementing
: 這題沒有特別大的疑問,只是想詢問如果C選項去掉and,
: 即even though they supplemented......這樣算正確嗎?
: 印象中although用法與even though相去不遠
: 先謝謝大大解答~
even though = although
OG 2016 #56
(Unlike the conviction held by many of her colleagues that genes were)
relatively simple and static, Barbara McClintock adhered to her own
more complicated ideas about how genes might operate, and in 1983,
at the age of 81, was awarded a Nobel Prize for her discovery that
the genes in corn are capable of moving from one chromosomal site
to another.
(B) Although many of her colleagues were of the conviction of genes being
(D) Even though many of her colleagues were convinced that genes were
(B) (D) 用了 although 和 even though
但由於 (B) 用了名詞來表示狀態，不如 (D) 使用動詞接上完整句子敘述
答案選 (D)
由此題可以證明，GMAT 並沒有在 although 和 even though 做強烈的比較