[求助]天山 5-30

For the first time in the modern ear, non-Hispanic Whites are officially a minority in California, which amounts to a little less than half the population of the state, down from nearly there-quarters only a decade ago.

A:

D amounting to a little less than half the population of the state, down from nearly three-quarters a decade ago.

答案是D.   我的问题是原句中的only在D 中丢失了.

A 为什么不对?  是不是因为有指代California之嫌?

我觉得only在这里不是关键. A中的which指代了Califonia, 使整个句子意思错误.

For the first time in the modern ear, non-Hispanic Whites are officially a minority in California, which amounts to a little less than half the population of the state, down from nearly there-quarters only a decade ago.

A:

D amounting to a little less than half the population of the state, down from nearly three-quarters a decade ago.

请高人讲讲 D 的用法。在这里D如果是现在分词，却不是表伴随方式和伴随结果，可是放在句末做定语修饰non-Hispanic Whites ，平常没见过。

A, B, C 一看就错，因为amount的主语是non-Hispanic Whites，所以amount只能是用复数，

E中，down from what it was a decade ago by nearly three-quarters, 是说人口数量减少了原来的3/4,不符合题义

he he, 我是一个个敲的, 可怜不可怜.