1. New Hampshire is the only state without a sales tax or an incometax, a major attraction for tax-weary residents of othe rstates.
这句话需要改错,答案是:New Hampshire is the only state with neither asales tax nor an income tax, a major attraction for tax-weary residents of otherstates.
2. Donna was satisfied not with her own achievement or with the team'sperformance.
这句话改错,答案是:Donna was satisfied neither with her own achievementnor with the team's performance.
请问这两题为何要如此改呢?
句1本身没错,设计答案的人可能喜欢用neither ...nor 结构,如此更为正式。
请看外刊例句:
1. Recently, Nebraska - a state without a Sales Tax or Personal Incometax prior to June 1, 1967, imposed an income tax effective January 1, 1968.
源于美国马里兰州政府报告:Maryland Legislative Council, Committee on Taxationand Fiscal Matters Report, p 30
2. Heaven knows we are a State without a sales tax or an income tax.
源于美国政府文件:Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committeeon Appropriations
句2:not with...or with的表达不太规范,假如把not放在with前,一般说Donna satisfied not with...but with...,一般不需要or with... 但如此的句式意思是不是定前面,一定后面。出题人或许考虑原句的意思是双否定,因此改为neither... nor...结构更为准确。