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Reporting that one of its many problems had been the recent extended sales slump in women’s apparel, the seven-store retailer said it would start a three-month liquidation sale in all of its stores.

(A) its many problems had been the recent

(B) its many problems has been the recently

(C) its many problems is the recently

(D) their many problems is the recent（A）

(E) their many problems had been the recent

偶明白此题涉及的修士歧义，但是偶不明白在此题中recently extended sales & recent extended sales 在意义上为什么是后者更合题意？偶觉得是前者更合意思啊？

Choice A is best: the singular pronoun its agrees in number with the singular noun referent retailer; the past perfect verb form had been is used appropriately to refer to action completed prior to the action of the simple past tense said; and the adjective recent correctly modifies the noun phrase extended sales slump. The adverb recently in choices B and C distorts the meaning of the sentence by illogically suggesting that what was recent was only the extension of the slump, and not the slump itself. In choices D and E, the plural pronoun their does not agree with the singular noun retailer.

recent修饰sales slump是说slump是最近才有的，recently修饰extended表示slump原来就有，最近才严重的。

个人观点

谢谢，偶明白了区别，但是

1、如何判断属于rencently extended slumps还是recent extended slumps

哎哟，怎么可能是recently extended呢？难道那个slump还会有一个时点，说往后的就是extended?

但是recent extended的extended是什么意思

既然是extended的slumps，就证明以前就有，所以recently extended

同意redjean 的觀點

如果用recent那麼強調的就是"sales slump"-->說明銷售的下滑是近期內的事

如果用recently那麼強調的是"extended"-->也就是近期發生了下滑,而下滑是廣泛性,全面性的

這是我個人看法

另外,我要提問的是時態的問題

1. 過去式對應過去完成式

  也就是說先發生近期內的銷售下滑,然後零售商才要開始做出清倉拍賣一事

這我能理解

但是當初我在做題的時候,卻遲遲無法下決定於A/B

因為一該頭用了reporting-->Ving通常在AT中表達持續性質的語態

在來我又見到recent, 所以考慮是否該用現在完成式

用邏輯上猜想: 這是因為整體的銷售量持續性質的下滑,所以retailer才要宣布liquidation

所以用現在完成式似乎合理...

我的疑問,煩請賜教

楼上解释够清楚了.