The British sociologist and activist Barbara Wootton once noted as a humorous example of income maldistribution that the elephant that gave rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo was earning annually exactly what she then earned as director of adult education for London.
(A)that the elephant that gave rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo was earning
(B)that the elephant, giving rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo, had been earning
(C)that there was an elephant giving rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo, and it earned
(D)the elephant that gave rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo and was earning
(E)the elephant giving rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo and that it earned
先给出OG的解释：
Choice A, the best answer, uses the idiomatic construction “noted... that” and clearly focuses on the salient information-- a comparison of annual earnings. In B, the structure of “noted... that the elephant, giving rides ..., had been earning” falsely implies that the reader already knows about the elephant--that is, that the existence of this particular elephant is not new information.
也就是说A用的是限定性定语从句，而B用的分词是非限定性的。作者: tony01 时间: 2002-11-4 12:52
多谢公主指点作者: zyh79 时间: 2002-11-4 15:38
B主要错在had been earning作者: tongxun 时间: 2002-11-4 18:54
the past perfect "had been" improperly places the elephant's earning in the past, prior to Wootton's; consistent verb tense is needed to show that the actions are simultaneous.作者: tony01 时间: 2002-11-5 07:37
but from where you can tell the action of "noted" and the action of "earned" should be simultaneousely?
thinks!
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