Question

一道英语选择题

.It is so much the language ________the culture background that makes the book difficult to understand.
A. as B. nor C. but D.like
选哪个 为什么呢

Answer 1

答：原题句本身由一个比较句变化而来，楼主还漏打了关键词not,使得本题句非常难懂，当然就难做了。句子意思都不知道是什么，还答什么题！
原题见：重庆医科大学医学英语语法考试选择题
41. It is not so much the language _____ the culture background that makes the book difficult to understand.
A. but B. nor C. as D like

答案是C
原句应该是：The language does not make the book difficult to understand so much as the culture background.
意为：这本书很难懂，有语言方面的原因，更有文化背景方面的原因。相比之下，前者不如后者。
这句话本身就难懂，再将它用强调句式表达出来，就更是复杂了。
大家比较熟悉的类似的句子：
He didn't go to bed until 12 o'clock. 强调时间状语时，不能只用until 12 o'clock,不是：
It was until 12 o'clock that he didnt go to bed. 而是：
It was not until 12 o'clock that he went to bed.
本题句有类似的现象。
强调的是句子的是状语so much, 但又不能简单地将so much 放在强调位上，要将这个否定词跟上去。又将这个有省略的比较状语从句（as the culture background [does]) 带了过去。所以就形成了一句很少见，较难理解的题句：
It is not so much the language as the culture background that makes the book difficult to understand.
本题的AB干扰项也见于强调句中，一般是强调主语(或宾语）：
It is A not B that does sth. 做某事的是A，不是B。
It is not B but A that does sth. 做某事的不是B而是A。
It is neither A nor B that does sth. 做某事的既不是A也不是B。

Answer 2

你好。答案是A.

你的句子应该是否定句形式---------not so much - - - -as- - - -
so 不能以肯定句的形式出现在你这样的句子裏面。
如果是肯定句，就必须是：it is as much - - - - -as- - - -

Answer 3

题目错了
It is not the language but theculture background that makes the book difficult to understand.
it is ---that 是强调句型 not ---but ---不是---而是
意为： 不是语言而是文化背景使得这本书难以理解。
或
It is not so much the language as the culture background that makes the book difficult to understand.
as---as 比较级的一种表达方式 否定句中as可变成so
相比之下，文化背景比语言更使得这本书的难以理解。

Answer 4

选 A, so.... as是词组， 原句指如此多的语言和文化背景使这本书很难令人理解。

Answer 5

选A，so much 、、、、as.意思为有那么多的文化背景以至于我们难于理解、、、、、固定搭配