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Qingqing Posted 21 years ago
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a question about "though"

A mysterious illness, reffered as SARS, attacked most part of China, the scientists said Wednesday, ____ no special cure has been found out. (cure of cause?)

A.though B.when C.that D.because

Key: A

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Hi, A mysterious illness, reffered as SARS, attacked most part of China, the scientists said Wednesday, ____ no special cure has been found out. because Key: A Is this question correct? None of these choices are good here.

  • Hi, A mysterious illness, reffered as SARS, attacked most part of China, the scientists said Wednesday, ____ no special cure has been found out.
  • because Key: A Is this question correct?
  • None of these choices are good here.
  • It's partly because the sentence itself is not well written.
  • Better would be something like A mysterious illness, referred to as SARS, has attacked most part of China, scientists said on Wednesday.
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Hi,

A mysterious illness, reffered as SARS, attacked most part of China, the scientists said Wednesday, ____ no special cure has been found out. (cure of cause?)

A.though B.when C.that D.because

Key: A

Is this question correct?
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The original does seem to house a 'non sequitur'.

MrP

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