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煩請高手們幫忙解惑，感激不盡！

1)Let us suppose:the strength of steel and the temperature of boiling water
would vary ______ whether human lives were threatened by a given situation.
(a) deciding on (b)dependent on (c) depend on (d) depending on


2)Because people often have illusions that we can see ourselves in the
biographies of famous people,screen biographies tend to be dramatically
______.
(a)satisfy (b) satisfied (c) unsatisfied (d) unsatisfying

(此題我是直接刪除a了，因為satisfy是及物動詞吧...後面要接受詞......?)


注1：steel鋼、vary改變(←一開始還看走眼...以為是very呢...呵)
注2：illusion幻覺、screen此處不知是否翻譯成螢幕...唉...

解答：D、D

PS:此考題出自倪老師的96年初等總複習講義...當時挺混的...沒練....唉....放了這麼久才拿出來曬太陽。

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pups83 於 2007/12/30 下午 01:29:00 回應 ~

1: Depending on is a preposition meaning ” according to “. Vary is often followed by a preposition when referring to the meaning “different “.

2:(a) is obviously a verb which doesn’t work in the context, so we can eliminate (a) immediately.
As regards the rest of choices, let us consider the use of past participle adjectives vs. -ing adjectives.
There are two kinds of participial adjectives.
The -ing adjective describes the person or thing that causes the action or feeling.
The past participle adjective describes the person or thing receiving the action or feeling.
In the sentence , screen biographies are causing the feeling, so that's why the -ing adjective(unsatisfying) is required.


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這位高人的解說讓我對於第2題豁然開朗，(感恩！)
談談我的感想，也請大家不吝指教！(3Q)
第2題是"情緒性動詞轉換成分詞"的判別，
爰此，"螢幕自傳"要接「引起感受、令人覺得」的ing形容詞，
而非「接受、感覺到」的pp形容詞。

第1題，
我尚有些困惑，意思是：
vary後須接介係詞，"Depending on "是介係詞片語，
而不能接"depend on"是因為它是"動詞"+意思會變成"依賴"而不同於"according to "嗎？
那...假設選項中有"depended on"，是因為depend本就有被動的意思、沒人這樣說嗎？
煩請高手解惑，謝謝！

不是高手(只是對英文有興趣)
還是想和樓主討論一下下

1)Let us suppose:the strength of steel and the temperature of boiling water
would vary ______ whether human lives were threatened by a given situation.
(a) deciding on (b)dependent on (c) depend on (d) depending on

第一題我覺得是動詞而不是prep.(depend on 應該是phrasal verb(片語動詞/動詞片語))
depend(動詞)轉為depending(Ving:有主動之意)引導whether子句修飾前頭的vary
題目的意思翻成中文為:鋼的硬度與滾水溫度會____人類性命是否遭受威脅而改變
答案中a和d的選項均為Ving(主動)
根據題意
選擇depending on (...依據)而非deciding on(....決定)

2)Because people often have illusions that we can see ourselves in the
biographies of famous people,screen biographies tend to be dramatically
______.
(a)satisfy (b) satisfied (c) unsatisfied (d) unsatisfying

第二題從情緒動詞的用法來判斷即使看不懂句子也能選出正確的答案
情緒動詞的p.p.當形容詞使用
用來修飾人
情緒動詞的Ving當形容詞使用
用來修飾物
所以答案裡頭只有D可以用來修飾物 -- screen biograhpies
以上個人淺見僅供參考

十分謝謝dejavuPacino 大大的分享，
大大針對第1題的A所說的，與pups83大大一樣，^___^
我知道A可以刪除啦~ 3Q
我仍存在的疑惑，正如1樓所貼，為啥米...要加ing呢？
為何兩個動詞放一起，後面那個變分詞就可以呢？ (淚)

第2題的部份，
對大大所言略有不同想法，
情緒動詞的Ving當形容詞使用不只用來修飾物，
EX:
Ella is the best interesting girl that I've ever met.
如果死記那個規則，不太保險喔......
再次謝謝大大的回應！