Despite the criticism in the early 1890's that if journalists use pictures the intellectual quality of publications would diminish, by the late 1890's photographs were found in most newspapers and magazines. A. that if journalists use pictures the intellectual quality of publications would diminish, B. that if journalists use pictures it will diminish the intellectual quality of publications, C. that the use of pictures by journalists would diminish the intellectual quality of publications, D. of the intellectual quality of publications being diminished by the use of pictures by journalists, E. of the use of pictures by journalists diminishing the intellectual quality of publications,
正确答案是C
我的疑问是A 解释说The phrase if journalists use is indirect, because the criticism is about the consequence of use, not journalists. The verb tenses are problematic too because they are out of sequence: present tense use with past tense found. 我觉得整个that后面的部分就是整个在解释criticism，所以journalists还是the use打头都没问题，但是解释中说要用use开头因为重点在于use of
