新东方补充教材第5题，不明白！！！

jingle

Margaret Courtney-Clarke has traveled to remote dwellings in the Transvaal to photograph the art of Ndebele women, whose murals are brilliantly colored, their geometrical symmetries embellished with old and new iconography and in a style that varies from woman to woman and house to house.

A.whose murals are brilliantly colored, their geometrical symmetries embellished with old and new iconography and in a style that varies from woman to woman and house to house.

B.whose murals are brilliantly colored, their geometrical symmetries are embellished with old and new iconography, and their style is varying among women and houses.

C.whose murals are brilliantly colored, their geometrical symmetries are embellished with old and new iconography, and they are in style that vary from woman to woman and house to house.

D.with murals brilliantly colored, their geometrival symmetries embellished with old and new iconography, and their style varies among women and houses.

E.with murals that are brilliantly colored, their geometrical symmetries embellished with old and new iconography, and their styles vary among women and houses.

这道题的原句是什么意思？为什么选A?

justag

I chose A by luck

When I first read choice A, I got confused about the sentence structure but kind of understand what it means. After looking at E, I finally realized that this is about DU LI ZHU GE. With that thought, I read choice A again, and became pretty sure about the below:

whose murals are brilliantly colored (descriptive clause modifying women), their geometrical symmetries (subject in DU') embellished (adj.) with old and new iconography (the first prep. phrase modifying "embellished") and in a style that varies from woman to woman and house to house (the second prep. phrase modifying "embellished").

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justag

"their style" of B and "they are in style" of C are confusing by reference, i.e. we would be confused by what the pron. refers to and thus can't quite understand what the sentence means, right? Moreover, the content after the "whose clause" in B and C are run-on sentences.D and E misinterperates the meaning with ingrammatical sentence structure.

PS: "from woman to woman and house to house" is better than "among women and houses" since the latter one doesn't make sense at all~

You must have understood well what the sentence means by far

卧室春竹

答案是A  当初白大仙 说此题800分

主要是有个独立主格做状语.....