Question

英语问题！

Many of the new metropolitan residents were business and professional people ______
higher incomes than they could earn in the small towns and rural South.
A in search of
B searching
C searching
D are searching for
能告诉我理由么？
in search of
是动词词组还是状语？？
这句句子读不大懂。。。。。帮帮忙谢谢了！

Answer 1

答案：A.

翻译：许多大城市的新居民是商人或专业人才，（他们）寻求比他们在小型城镇和南方乡村（地区）可以获得的（收入）要更高的收入。

解释：
1. 此题关键在于对句子结构的划分以及对search用法的理解。
2. 句子主语是Many of the new metropolitan residents，后面是系表结构were business and professional people，所以后面的成分为后置定语，修饰表语business and professional people.
3. 而答案D是一个句子的谓语结构，它不能做后置定语，排除D。
4. search的直接宾语是指“搜索/搜寻的范围/场所”，search for的宾语才是指“搜寻的目标”，所以如果要用现在分词短语（被修饰词business and professional people和动词search for直接为主动关系，必须用其现在分词形式）做后置定语，必须是searching for higher incomes than they could earn in the small towns and rural South.
所以，BC（怎么是一样的？）错误。
5. in search of...是一个介宾短语（其中的search为名词），它在句中可以充当状语/后置定语/表语/补足语等。

Answer 2

许多新的大城市居住者都是商人或专业人员，这些商人或专业人员都是在追求比他们可以在小的城镇和南边农村获得的更多的收入。

Many of the new metropolitan residents were business and professional people （______higher incomes than they could earn in the small towns and rural South.）括号中的为business and professional people 的定语~

并且这个定语是省略句~省略了 who are~

所以答案是 in search of 或 searching for （看不懂为什么B和C 是一样的~）

希望帮到lz ~

Answer 3

in search of adv 意思为寻找
原句中已有动词，且是过去式，所以后面跟着也是过去式或过去完成时，所以D are searching for 错误，B searching C searching代入语句中缺少成份，所以选A in search of