Like the grassy fields and old pastures that the upland sandpiper needs for feeding and nesting when it returns in May after wintering in the Argentine Pampas, the sandpipers vanishing in the northeastern United States is a result of residential and industrial development and of changes in farming practices.
(A). the sandpipers vanishing in the northeastern United States is a result of residential and industrial development and of changes in
(B). the bird itself is vanishing in the northeastern United States as a result of residential and industrial development and of changes in
(C). that the birds themselves are vanishing in the northeastern United States is due to residential and industrial development and changes to
(D). in the northeastern United States, sandpipers’ vanishing is due to residential and industrial development and to changes in
(E). in the northeastern United States, the sandpipers’ vanishing, a result of residential and industrial development and changing
考察比较
Like后面是具体的名词,所以比较对象应该是具体的bird对不是vanishing之类的抽象名词,所以ADE不对。
C中逗号that不对,而且原文表达的是residential and industrial development跟changes的原因,C中并列不对
所以选择B