While depressed property values can hurt some large investors, they are potentially devastating for home-owners. whose equity--in many cases representing a life's savings--can plunge or even disappear. (A) they are potentially devastating for homeowners, whose (B) they can potentially devastate homeowners in that their (C) for homeowners they are potentially devastat ing, because their (D) for homeowners, it is potentially devastating inthat their (E) it can potentially devastate homeowners, whose 答案A
In a 5-to-4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that two upstate New York counties owed restitution to three tribes of Oneida Indians for the unlawful seizure of their ancestral lands in the eighteenth century.
(A) that two upstate New York counties owed restitution to three tribes of Oneida Indians for the unlawful seizure of
(B) that two upstate New York counties owed restitution to three tribes of Oneida Indians because of their unlawful seizure of
(C) two upstate New York counties to owe restitution to three tribes of Oneida Indians for their unlawful seizure of
(D) on two upstate New York counties that owed restitution to three tribes of Oneida Indians because they unlawfully seized
(E) on the restitution that two upstate New York counties owed to three tribes of Oneida Indians for the unlawful seizure of 答案A
第一题中A选项they 为什么我不能说他指代large investors?而必须得指代前面句子的主语?
第二题中未划线的their为什么我不能说他指代two upstate NY counties?而去指代three tribes of OI? 相应的错误选项B中their为什么就不能说他指代的thress tribes of OI?而去指代two upstate NY counties? 刨去句意理解 代词指代不都有歧义么?
代词指代的问题有原则么 比如优先指代主句主语之类的?还是必须根据句意来判断?
The proposed urban development zones do not represent a new principle; it was employed in “Operation Bootstrap” in Puerto Rico.
(A) do not represent a new principle; it (B) represent not a new principle, but one that (C) are not a new principle; the same one (D) are not a new principle, but one that (E) are not new in principle; 答案B
B中but one that...结构是定从修饰的短语么?
还有that 省了不是更简洁么?but one was employed...虽然是句子 但这不是but引导的让步的从句?
Astronomers at the Palomar Observatory have discovered a distant supernova explosion, one that they believe is a type previously unknown to science. (A) that they believe is (B) that they believe it to be (C) they believe that it is of (D) they believe that is (E) they believe to be of 答案E
E中one they believe to be of 是不是倒装的形式? 可以写成they believe one to be of么?