中国過去問からです。解説をお願いします。
1.Trying to learn some of the basis of programming is (the same as to tinker with a car when one is a teenager); some people end up going to engineering school, and others, twenty years later, remember nothing of the experience.
A. 原文
C. like tinkering with a car as a teen-ager
Aが正解ですが、Cはどこがまずいのでしょうか?
2. In his research paper, Dr. Frosh, medical director of the Payne Whitney Clinic, distingushes (mood swings, which may be violent without their being grounded in mental disease, from genuine manic-depressive psycosis.)
A. 原文
C. between mood swings, which may be violent without being grounded in mental disease, and genuine manic-depressive psycosis
Cが正解ですが、Aはどこが駄目でしょうか?distinguish A from Bのidiomがあったと記憶してますが。
3. Opened in 1683, the Asholeian was the first public museum in Great Britain, (while earlier the Bodleian has been) the first truly public library.
C. just as earlier the Bodleian had been
Cが正解ですが、as earlierの語順がしっくりきません。文法上、どのような意味、構造なのでしょうか?
4. Because natural gas is composed mostly of methane, a simple hydrocarbon, vehicles powered bynatural gas emit (less of certain pollutants than the burning of gasoline or diesel fuel.)
D. fewer of certain pollutants than does burning gasoline or diesel fuel
E. less of certain pollutants than those burning gasoline or diesel fuel
Eが正解ですが、pollutantsと複数形にも関わらず、lessで受けてます。certain pollutantsをあるひとまとまりのものとして捉えているからでしょうか?
5. The five hundred largest manufacturing firms in the United States produce goods (that are worth almost as much
as that of the four hundred thousand firms that remain.)
C. almost as much in worth as those of the remaining four hundred thousand firms
E. worth almost as much as those of the remaining four hundred thousand firms
Eが正解ですが、Cだと意味がどう変わってしまうのでしょうか?
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