XDF补充教材/SC/SECTION1-12

12. Traveling the back roads of Hungary, in 1905 Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology, and they were armed only with an Edison phonograph and insatiable curiosity.

(A) Traveling the back roads of Hungary, in 1905 Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology, and they were armed only
(B) In 1905, Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly, traveling the back roads of Hungary, began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology, and they were only armed
(C) In 1905 Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology, traveling the back roads of Hungary armed only
(D) Having traveled the back roads of Hungary, in 1905 Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology; they were only armed
(E) Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly, in 1905 began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology, traveling the back roads of Hungary, arming themselves only

我的答案:A

理由: 首先,only是个极端修饰词,其修饰对象和位置不能发生改变,所以B错D错.E arming themselves罗唆, 不如armed 好,E错.C有两个错误,armed变成修饰Hungary,同时,它把原文的主干变成了修饰成分.

可是,东方给的答案是C,不理解.

OG的解释

Choices A and B are wordy and imprecise: the phrasing suggests that Bartók and Kodály were already traveling the back roads of Hungary when they began their pioneering work, not that they traveled the back roads in order to conduct such work. Moreover, and suggests in both cases that they were armed with a phonograph in addition to being on the road, rather than while they were on the road, and only in B is misplaced before the verb armed. Choice C is correct. In choice D, Having traveled… suggests that the two had finished traveling before they began their work in ethnomusicology, and only is again misplaced. Choice E is wordy and awkwardly constructed. The question is a little easier than the average.

个人认为A是不对的，状语的位置复杂了，让人混乱；B的两个动词的关系乱了，begin和travel，要先开始，travel是过程，而且，那个时间的修饰1905，我觉得动词用begin更合适；D的having traveled说法错误；E就不用说了