OG52搞不懂C选项的请进

dreamlollip

52. To Josephine Baker, Paris was her home long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate, and she remained in France during the Second World War as a performer and an intelligence agent for the Resistance.

(A) To Josephine Baker, Paris was her home long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate,

(B) For Josephine Baker, long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate, Paris was her home,

(C) Josephine Baker made Paris her home long before to be an expatriate was fashionable,

(D) Long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate, Josephine Baker made Paris her home,

(E) Long before it was fashionable being an expatriate, Paris was home to Josephine Baker,

Rhetorical construction; Parallelism
This compound sentence (consisting of two independent clauses joined by the coordinating conjunction and) would be most clearly expressed if Josephine Baker were the subject of the fi rst clause since she is the subject of the second clause: Josephine Baker made Paris her home would clearly parallel she remained in France. The adverb clause long … expatriate is best placed before the main clause.
A To Josephine Baker … her is redundant and awkward; the subject of the first main clauseis Paris rather than Baker.
B For Josephine Baker … her is redundant and awkward; putting two introductory elementstogether before the main clause is awkward.
C Inversion of the expected word order in to be an expatriate was unfashionable is awkward.
D Correct. The clearest, most economicalorder for this sentence is to put the adverb clause first, and make Baker the subject ofthe first main clause, parallel to she in the second.
E Being is awkward; Baker should be the subject of the first main clause, parallel toshe in the second main clause.
The correct answer is D.


通过平行排除ABE之后很欢乐的选了C。。。= =
然后翻了很多帖子没找到合心意的解释。关于TO DO的表达为什么AWKWARD。
贴上一个我觉得让我比较满意的解释，不知道有没有在别的帖子里出现过。希望可以让和我一样纠结的小朋友们不那么纠结了~
When dealing with sentences starting with infinitives, it is preferable to use the "It + verb + subject complement + infinitive phrase" rather than "infinitive+ verb + subject complement". Unless, of course, the sentence starting with the infinitive an adage or the focal point of the sentence.

Hence,
"It is great to be here" is preferred to "To be here is great."
"It is dangerous to play with fire" is preferred to "To play with fire is dangerous".

Again, if the context required so, the non-"it" form may be used to emphasize the infinitive phrase.
Example:
To err is human.
To beat the GMAT was his only goal.
In these sentences, we want to emphasize the infinitive, hence the context makes it prudent to use the "Infinitive+verb+subject complement" form.
In the Josephine Baker sentence, "To be an expatriate" was not the focal point of the sentence. Hence it was preferable to use "It was fashionable...." in this case. I agree with Bill's comment as well that using "long before+ to be...." is inappropriate, and the verb+ing works better. Let me know what you think

dreamlollip

然后我还有一个小疑问，之前帖子里有很多人说to be 选项awkward是因为它歧义，可以修饰JB.
我个人感觉没有这种歧义。希望各位大牛和各位同学可以指点下。到底这样会有歧义么？

lavenderwu

to be an expatriate was fashionable
个人觉得不如用it形式主语好，OG中也说了原句这种inversion才是awkward的。
to do晃眼过去的确有修饰JB的歧义，但仔细看个人觉得没有，只能说明这种结构真的很不好。

chaomat1988

英文解释的好呀，这里就是it XX比 to好一点，如果强调，看来是要用to XX

cynthia129

请问那是不是说如果C改为JB madeParis her home long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate，就对了呢？

HenriWilligS

as if using "to be" to avoid the use of "it was." I think "before" is unclear without a tensed verb (i.e. before what happened?), and "to be" is the infinitive, not a verb in a tense