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794. The Olympic Games helped to keep peace among the pugnacious states of the Greek world in that a sacred truce was proclaimed during the festival’s month.

(D) world, for a sacred truce was proclaimed during the month of the festival（C）

(E) world by proclamation of a sacred truce that was for the month of the festival

This sentence depends on using the
correct conjunction to join two independent clauses. In that is a conjunction that means inasmuch as; because in that has largely gone out of use, it
is considered stilted and overly formal. It also uses two words when one would
do. In this sentence, the second clause explains the first one, so the
conjunction for; meaning because, is
the most appropriate choice for joining the tow independent clauses of the
compound sentence.

B. It is not clear who would be
doing the proclaiming; a clause is preferable to a phase here

D. Correct. In this sentence, the
conjunction for joins the two clauses
correctly and economically

以下是引用rosmarine在2006-5-5的发言：
这题有争议，新版OG支持D，原大全答案为C。新版OG认为C中的they指代不清，可以是games也可以是states。原大全认为根据常识Olympic Games肯定在停火协议之后举行，所以D不对。当然以OG说的为准啦。

新版OG的解释如下：

A. In that is stilted and overly
formal

B. It is not clear who would be
doing the proclaiming; a clause is preferable to a phase here

C. They is ambiguous, possibly
referring to either the states or the
Games

D. Correct. In this sentence, the
conjunction for joins the two clauses
correctly and economically

E Wordy and awkward construction