一道语法题请问

lala

The Vietnamese artist exhibiting work in the united States reported that one of her artistic challenges had been the former widespread unavailability of paper and canvas in wartime, which she said often forced her to work on matchboxes and scraps of newsprint.
her artistic challenges had been the former
her artistic challenges had been the formerly
选A。谁能说说B的FORMERLY怎么用得不对？[em26]

lucylu

同意牛村长的意见，判断是用former还是formerly,只需把名词前的修饰成分去掉，看句意有没有变化，widespread去掉后句意完整无实质变化，可判断former直接修饰名词而非widespread.[em12]