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210. Scientists have recently discovered what could be the largest and oldest living organism on Earth, a giant fungus that is an interwoven filigree of mushrooms and rootlike tentacles spawned by a single fertilized spore some 10,000 years ago and extending for more than 30 acres in the soil of a Michigan forest.

(A) extending

(B) extends

(C) extended

(D) it extended（A）

(E) is extending

Choice A, the best answer, preserves grammatical parallelism while allowing for logical expression of temporal relationships; （平行）A employs the parallel participial phrases spawned... and extending... to modify filigree. Other choices present different grammatical constructions that are not participial modifiers and thus not parallel to spawned: extends in B is a present-tense verb; it extended in D begins a new clause; and is extending in E ungrammatically introduces a new predicate. In C, extended is nonparallel if it is assumed to be a past tense verb form; if it is assumed to be a past participle, it illogically states, as does D, that the filigree extended only in the past.

答案没有问题,我想问的是为什么spawned by a single fertilized spore some 10,000 years ago and extending for more than 30 acres in the soil of a Michigan forest 不直接修饰tentacles,一般不是就近修饰吗?为何本题跳跃修饰FILIGREE?而且,如果从逻辑意思来说,也说得过去呀,FUNGUS IS FILIGREE (OF MUSHROON AND ROOTLIKE TENTACLES),TENTACLES SPAWNED AND EXTEDNING

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