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: 24. The Iroquois were primarily planters, but supplementing their cultivation
: of maize, squash, and beans with fishing and hunting.
: (A) but supplementing
: (B) and had supplemented
: (C) and even though they supplemented
: (D) although they supplemented(O)
: (E) but with supplementing
: 这题没有特别大的疑问,只是想询问如果C选项去掉and,
: 即even though they supplemented......这样算正确吗?
: 印象中although用法与even though相去不远
: 先谢谢大大解答~
even though = although
OG 2016 #56
(Unlike the conviction held by many of her colleagues that genes were)
relatively simple and static, Barbara McClintock adhered to her own
more complicated ideas about how genes might operate, and in 1983,
at the age of 81, was awarded a Nobel Prize for her discovery that
the genes in corn are capable of moving from one chromosomal site
to another.
(B) Although many of her colleagues were of the conviction of genes being
(D) Even though many of her colleagues were convinced that genes were
(B) (D) 用了 although 和 even though
但由于 (B) 用了名词来表示状态，不如 (D) 使用动词接上完整句子叙述
答案选 (D)
由此题可以证明，GMAT 并没有在 although 和 even though 做强烈的比较