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182. Consumers may not think of household cleaning products to be hazardous substances, but many of them can be harmful to health, especially if they are used improperly.

(A)  Consumers may not think of household cleaning products to be

(B)   Consumers may not think of household cleaning products being

(C)  A consumer may not think of their household cleaning products being

(D)  A consumer may not think of household cleaning products as

(E)   Household cleaning products may not be thought of, by consumers, as

答案d没问题，想请教e错在哪儿了？og只说~~

         是因为but后的them 可能指代substances的缘故吗？

ETS does not mention such reference ambiguity. I think choice C, D use A consumer to eliminate the reference ambiguity, an effectiveness issue.

As also, ETS mention that the passive voice appearing to be awkard and wordy even if the agent for verb is clearly stated.

To be discussed...

Reference ambiguity, please refer to

167.     Neanderthals had a vocal tract that resembled those of the apes and so were probably without language, a shortcoming that may explain why they were supplanted by our own species.

(A) Neanderthals had a vocal tract that resembled those of the apes

(B) Neanderthals had a vocal tract resembling an ape’s

(C) The vocal tracts of Neanderthals resembled an ape’s

(D) The Neanderthal’s vocal tracts resembled the apes’（B）

(E) The vocal tracts of the Neanderthals resembled those of the apes

The sentence requires a subject appropriate to both members of a compound predicate, the second member being and so were probably without language. B, the best choice, logically uses Neanderthals as the subject. Choice A also uses this subject, but the plural pronoun those does not agree with its singular antecedent, a vocal tract. C, D, and E present the inappropriate subject vocal tracts, which cannot logically govern the second member of the predicate (i.e., vocal tracts cannot be said to be without language). Moreover, it is better to use the singular in referring to an anatomical feature common to an entire species; C, D, and E use the plural vocal tracts. D compounds the problem by giving multiple vocal tracts to one Neanderthal.

B use the singular possessive to eliminate the reference ambiguity of "they"

对于D、E，mang of them是不是都有可能指代household cleaning products和hazardous substances，但是根据指代优先原则都是修饰household cleaning products的？

请问是不是其他类似think of的词都没有to be 的表达呢？谢谢！

习惯用法吧，记住就好

think of X as Y

regard X as Y

consider X Y