OG10语法268题及GWD22语法总结六十四

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63. Health officials estimate that 35 million Africans are in danger of contracting trypanosomiasis, or "African sleeping sickness," a parasitic disease spread by the bites of tsetse flies.

(A) are in danger of contracting（习语）

(B) are in danger to contract

(C) have a danger of contracting

(D) are endangered by contraction

(E) have a danger that they will contract

1．习语： be in danger of sth. 一级排除B,D,E

2． 时态：二级排除C

现在完成时没有理由，而且从逻辑意思上看 have a danger 也不对。

the passive construction in D would be unnecessarily wordy and also imprecise, because it is the disease more than the act of contracting it that poses the danger.(意思表达的细微差别) èbe endangered by的意思也有区别, 往往表示环境/野生动物被endangered