Several educational research groups are denouncing the mayor's proposal of a system by which individual teachers would be given raises or bonuses should it be that test scores show their students' mastery of reading skills having improved over a nine-month period.
(A) should it be that test scores show their students' mastery of reading skills having
(B) should it be that test scores show their students' mastery of reading skills have
(C) should test scores showing their students' mastery of reading skills has
(D) if test scores showing their students' mastery of reading skills having
(E) if test scores show that their students' mastery of reading skills has
选e, 可是原题中的would代表了虚拟 if条件句中怎么用现在时呢作者: 老李同志 时间: 2015-5-25 17:45
if you have to use subjunctive, then the answer would be 'should it be that test scores show that their students' mastery of reading skills has'.作者: Nicoleubc 时间: 2015-5-27 14:16
同意楼上的解释。但是我觉得这个句子应该是conditional不是subjunctive。The English subjunctive is used to form sentences that do not describe known objective facts. These include statements about one's state of mind, such as opinion, belief, purpose, intention, or desire. The subjunctive mood is also used for statements that are contrary to fact, such as If I were a giraffe, ... (subjunctive), as distinguished from I was a child. （from：http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_subjunctive#Use_of_the_present_subjunctive）这里的if，不是表假设，而是表条件。所以不应该是subjunctive，就直接排除了abc，然后d甚至都不是一个完整句子。当然就选e啦作者: ukyo2003 时间: 2015-5-28 23:55
我同意是条件句，这里用would是合适的，因为条件没有发生，不能用will表示确定的趋势。
另外讨论以下虚拟：
1、我觉得应该这么虚拟，it be是多余的，should test score show that their students' mastery of reading skills has
2、虚拟结果应该描述为 individual teachers would have been given raises or bonuses表示并没有发生的虚拟结果