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LoveY

In the mid-1970’s, since birds were overcome by pollution, and routinely falling from the sky above Los Angeles freeways, this prompted officials in California to devise a plan that reduced automobile emissions.

A.    since birds were overcome by pollution, and routinely falling from the sky above Los Angeles freeways,   this prompted officials in California to devise a plan that reduced
B.    since birds that had been overcome by pollution were routinely falling from the sky above Los Angeles freeways, it prompted officials in California to devise a plan that would reduce
C.    birds had been overcome by pollution and routinely fell from the sky above Los Angeles freeways, prompting officials in California to devise a plan that reduced
D.    birds overcome by pollution routinely fell from the sky above Los Angeles freeways, prompting officials in California to devise a plan to reduce
E.    birds overcome by pollution and routinely falling from the sky above Los Angeles freeways were prompting officials in California to devise a plan to reduce

答案是D
為什麼B不行?因為too wordy?

tkcamfan

At least two problems with B).


1. "had been", wrong verb tense. "In the mid-1970" suggests simple past tense.


2. "it" has no referent.


Please underline next time =)

LoveY

謝謝NN的勞動
我當初是想had是表示發生在過去某事之前
所以我翻譯成以前可以克服廢氣的鳥現在會薰暈掉下來
這個概念不能用在這裡嗎?
B錯另一個原因是不是不該用be...ing?

hbjat1989

不好意思，我对这些时态的中文单词搞不清楚，所以我用英文来

说吧。

In generally, use simple past tense if possible. For

instance, you will say,
"Yesterday, I found out that Dinosaurs lived on Earth for 3

million years" (sorry that I made up the number....)

Use past perfect tense ONLY if you need to emphasis the

sequence of the action.
"Yesterday, I found out that Dinosaurs had lived on Earth

for 3 million years before they died out."
Here, you wanna to emphasize the sequence of two actions,

namely "had lived" and "died out."

In the absence of other better choices, you may use "had".

finnlijing

但是此题overcome by pollution 和 fell from the sky 不是也应该有先后关系么？应该是先overcome...,再 fell from the sky. 所以觉得正是应该用完成时态来表示这个时间的先后性呀。

vansonkated

B太wordy了，还有其他错误，
1）were routinely falling这个过去进行时用的没有根据，而且原文只不过是陈述过去的一件事
2）后面的it 指代错误，没有单数名词可以去指代，指bird也不对，因为原文是birds（复数），而且即使是单数，逻辑也不对，不能说鸟去促进政府官员提出方案，D的现在分词promoting修饰前面的句子才是正确的使用方法