In an effort to reduce their inventories, Italian vintners have cut prices; their wines have been priced to see, and they are.
a. have been priced to see, and they are. b. are priced to seLL, and they have c. are priced to sell, and they do d, are being priced to sell, and have e had been priced to sell, and they have
答案C
第一步,根据时态应该是are priced to sell, 排除AE, c中BEING不对排除,B,C中后半部分补出HAVE的肯定不对,因为前面没有have,,,,,只剩下c
选出来不是很难,但是我这里有个they do的疑问, OG给的解释是 they do sell的省略??凌乱了,,这里不像是助动词的补出啊,因为助动词补出涉及主语的比较?
請看manhattan例句: Wrong: Our cars were designed to inspire envy, and they ARE. Right: Our cars were designed to inspire envy, and they DO. 這裡不能用are而只能用do的原因是,they後面原本應該是加inspire的,而inspire在前面分句用的是現在時的原型,所以後面只能加do。如果要用are的話,要把inspire換成inspiring。
類比此題C項:In an effort to reduce their inventories, Italian vintners have cut prices; their wines are priced to sell, and they do. they後面省略的是前面的sell,所以只能用do。they do sell強調它們真的是sell出去了!