请教一题。

mihu

Although many Whites, noting the presence of some Blacks in the middle class, think that the time for enforcing civil rights measures is past. Blacks generally are aware [ that the figures for average income and unemployment show as wide of ] a radical discrepancy as ever.

A.
B. that average-income and unemployment figure show as wide
C. that the average-income and unemployment figures are showing as wide of
D. of average-income and unemployment figures that show as wide of
E. of figures for average income and unemployment showing as wide

the key is B. why? (it is possible that the key is not right.)

tongxun

I insist that B is the right answer。
A： the figures for？ wide of ？
B： you can check a sc in OG。 the sc discribes the difference in numbers of  Americans be killed in two different wars。
   as wide as。
C： are showing ？
D： It is too many words after the word “ of ”
E： showing？ which word do it modify？

Kilroy

average-income是和 unemployment figure对称吗？
figures不能跟后面的show as wide as of...?

princess

看了Kilroy的问题后恍然大悟，B中对称的是average-income和 unemployment figure，而不是我原来以为的average-income figure和 unemployment figure。可能是因为average-income这个指标本身就应该是一个数字：）

C中as wide as of...有问题吧，of是不需要的
正确的形式应该是 as+adj.+(a/an)n.+as