XDF补充教材SC请教帖(更新中) - ChaseDream

前段时间一直在发帖问大家问题, 发现比较零散,不便于大家一起借鉴复习,所以决定就发一个帖子,然后不断更新.(如果已经解决的,我会在题目的后面备注)

13. On the Great Plains, nineteenth-century settlers used
   mud and grass to build their homes, doing it without
   timber and nails.(已经解决)

   (A) settlers used mud and grass to build their homes,
       doing it without
   (B) settlers used mud and grass to build their
       homes, did it without
   (C) settlers used mud and grass to build their homes,
       making them while not having
   (D) settlers used mud and grass to build their homes,
       making do without
   (E) settlers' homes were built of mud and grass,
       making do without

18. Despite its attractiveness, investing abroad can still
pose big risks, ranging from the potential for political
instability in some countries to the shortage of
regulations to protect investors and a serious lack of
information about investments in others.(已经解决)

(A) to the shortage of regulations to protect investors
       and a serious lack of information about invest-
       ments in others
   (B) to the shortage of regulations to protect investors
       and in others a serious lack of information about
       investments
(C) and the shortage of regulations to protect investors
      and a serious lack of information about invest-
      ments in others
(D) and the shortage of regulations to protect investors
      to a serious lack of information about invest-
     ments in others
(E) to the shortage of regulations to protect investors
     in others and a serious lack of information about
     investments

19. That the new managing editor rose from the publica-
tion’s “soft” news sections to a leadership position is
more of a landmark in the industry than her being a
woman.(新)

   (A) her being a woman
   (B) being a woman is
   (C) her womanhood
   (D) that she was a woman
   (E) that she is a woman

XDF补充教材/SC/SECTION 14-19/政策法规也可以使用过去时态吗?

A 1972 agreement between Canada and the United

States reduced the amount of phosphates that

municipalities had been allowed to dump into the

Great Lakes. (新)

(A) reduced the amount of phosphates that munici-

‍palities had been allowed to dump

(B) reduced the phosphate amount that municipali-

‍ties had been dumping

‍have been allowed to dump

(D) reduced the amount of phosphates that munici-

‍palities are allowed to dump

(E) reduces the amount of phosphates allowed for

dumping by municipalities

答案:A
关于本题, 我想问的是: 如果使用一般现在时态是否会更好.(当然, 本题的CE都存在语法错误, 故不选)

12. Although all the proceedings of the Communist

party conference held in Moscow were not carried

live, Soviet audiences have seen a great deal of

coverage. (新)

(A) all the proceedings of the Communist party

conference held in Moscow were not carried

live

(B) all the Communist party conference's Moscow

proceedings were not carried live

proceedings have not been carried alive

(D) not all the Communist party conference

Moscow proceedings have been carried alive

(E) not all the proceedings of the Communist party

conference held in Moscow were carried live

我的答案:A 参考答案:E
疑问: E难道不是改变了原文的意思吗?

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In December of 1987 an automobile manufacturer

pleaded no contest to criminal charges of odometer

tampering and agreed to pay more than $16 million

in civil damages for cars that were test-driven with

their odometers disconnected (新)

(A) cars that were test-driven with their odometers

disconnected

(B) cars that it had test-driven with their disconnected

odometers

nected odometers

(D) having test-driven cars with their odometers

disconnected

(E) having cars that were test-driven with discon-

nected odometers

本题如何理解?(答案是D)

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哎呀, 对阿,原来这么简单! 晕了, 呵呵!没关系, 努力努力! 我又更新了.