____, he does get irritated with her sometimes. A. As he likes her much B. Much though he likes her C. Though much he likes her D. Much as he likes her(全国研考,92-9)
正确答案规定为 D(Much as he likes her)，而把 B(Much though he likes her) 判为错误。另外，王长喜教授主编的《1995 年硕士研究生入学英语考试必备》(中国人民大学出版社，p. 166) 强调指出：“B 中的 though 不能用于含有倒装结构的强调句中……”。张锦芯教授主编的《1998 年硕士研究生入学英语考试应试指南》(中国人民大学出版社，1997) 还进一步发挥了这个说法：“但这里却不能用 though 替代(as)，因为如果用 though，从句必须保持正常语序，即 though he likes her much...”(p. 196)。但我仍坚持认为 B 也是完全正确的。不知我的看法对否？
选 B 和选 D 是同样正确的。让我们先来看看权威语言学家 R. Quirk 等人的论述：“... concessive clauses sometimes have an unusual syntactic orderings when the subordinator is as or though. In a rather formal style, the predication in the concessive clause may be fronted”.（“当从属连词是 as 或 though 时，让步状语从句有时可采用异常的语序。在相当正式的语体里，让步状语从句的谓体可以放在句首”）。
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Genius though she was, she was quite unassuming. 虽然她是个天才，但是她很谦逊。
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Fail though I did, I would not abandon my goal. 虽然我失败了,但是我不会放弃我的目标。
下面再来考察一下摘自其他英语原著的例句：
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Modest though his needs were, he found it hard to get by on his income. (WNCD) 虽然他的需求并不高,但是他发现靠他的收入还是难以度日。
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Much though I admire her, I cannot excuse her faults. 虽然我非常崇拜她，但我不能原谅她的错误。
如果说 as 与 though 有什么区别的话,那就是 as 采用这种语序是强制性的(即具有让步含义的 as 不能放在句首),而 though 采用这种语序则不是强制性的(即从属连词 though 亦可放在句首)。
请做下面的英语试题：
- Great as Newton was, many of his ideas ____ today and are being modified by the work of scientists of our time.