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With surface temperatures estimated at minus 230 degrees Fahrenheit, Jupiter's moon Europa has long been considered far too cold to support life, and with 60 square miles of water thought to be frozen from top to bottom.

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当前版本 由Phillp更新于2010-11-02 20:48:52

题目释义:…, Eruopa has long been considered far too cold to do sth, its 60 square miles of water thought to be …

考点

平行结构(parallelism) 题目释义(grammatical construction)

  1. and前后平行。
  2. consider A B:把A认为是B,中间不加as和to be,其中B为名词或形容词。
  3. 独立主格(见补充说明)。

选项分析

  • A. and前后不对称,前面是完整句子,后面是一个介词短语。
  • B. correct;its 60 square miles of water thought to be…做been considered的伴随状语做补充说明逻辑最合理。
  • C. consider … as累赘;把has 60 square miles和consider并列,逻辑上不是最合适的。
  • D. and前后都是sentence fragment,而不是完整句子;consider…as累赘。
  • E. consider to be累赘;and前后都不是完整句子,错误。

补充说明

独立主格:

B选项的后半句its 60 square miles of…是一个独立主格结构。具体可以参考以下内容:http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/phrases.htm#absolute

ABSOLUTE PHRASE

Usually (but not always, as we shall see), an absolute phrase (also called a nominative absolute) is a group of words consisting of a noun or pronoun and a participle as well as any related modifiers. Absolute phrases do not directly connect to or modify any specific word in the rest of the sentence; instead, they modify the entire sentence, adding information. They are always treated as parenthetical elements and are set off from the rest of the sentence with a comma or a pair of commas (sometimes by a dash or pair of dashes). Notice that absolute phrases contain a subject (which is often modified by a participle), but not a true finite verb.

Their reputation as winners secured by victory, the New York Liberty charged into the semifinals.
The season nearly finished, Rebecca Lobo and Sophie Witherspoon emerged as true leaders.

The two superstars signed autographs into the night, their faces beaming happily.


When the participle of an absolute phrase is a form of to be, such as being or having been, the participle is often left out but understood.

The season [being] over, they were mobbed by fans in Times Square.
[Having been] Stars all their adult lives, they seemed used to the attention.

Another kind of absolute phrase is found after a modified noun; it adds a focusing detail or point of focus to the idea of the main clause. This kind of absolute phrase can take the form of a prepositional phrase, an adjective phrase, or a noun phrase.

The old firefighter stood over the smoking ruins, his senses alert to any sign of another flare-up.

His subordinates, their faces sweat-streaked and smudged with ash, leaned heavily against the firetruck.

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