[求助]大全上没有的一题，NN进来讲解一下

因为大全上没有，所以没有题号，请见谅

in addition to being china's first administrators , in the sense that they deceloped a coherent bureaucracy for their empire, the first literate culture in east asia were the shang ,and they were well known for crafting ornate bronze ritual vewwels

A, the first literate culture in east asia were the shang ,and they were well known for crafting

B  the first literate culture in east asia were the shang , well known as the crafters of

C  the shang,as the first literate culrure in east asia, is well known for its crafting

D  the shang were the first literate culture in east asia and are well known as the crafters of

E  the shang were the first literate culture in east asia and well known for its crafted

新东方给的答案是D

（1）可我觉得D最后的时态有点问题，不应该是一般现在时

（2）还有就是为什么这里culture 和 shang 的谓语动词都用复数呢？

（3）我选的是E，如果E中its改成their可以吗?也就是说E中的那个are能不能省略？

请NN讲解

我的观点，请NN斧正：

1）时态并不是要求绝对的一致，关键是逻辑含义是否合理。D选项一般现在时说的就是现在这个时间点，商朝人“现在”很知名而不是过去，我认为也是说得通的。OG上类似的例子：

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2）culture的谓语应该是单数，the Shang表示商朝人的总体，谓语为复数，大全上有一个类似的例子，但是不记得是哪道题了，哪天找到了再帖上来。不过这道题没有考这个点，未划线的部分in the sense that they已经明确提示the Shang是复数了。这道题其实用单复数一致就可以排除其他选项

3）这道题还有另外一个主要考点，就是主句主语必须是the Shang.

谢谢，那么如果是the english 或者是the chinese是不是也是复数呢？

还有哈，你的第一个例子不是时态的问题，是形容词的平行：）

分词的平行

我想说的是逻辑合理即可，呵呵

大全上另外一个例子说的好像是一个民族，用的复数谓语。the Chinese本来就是复数吧，the old等指一类人也是复数概念

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我认为E有两个错误

its应该改为their,因为未画线的部分the sang were...暗示了主语为复数

第二个be动词不能省略,were the first...中的were是系动词,而are(were) well known to...中的be动词是助动词,功能不同不能省略.

这里我觉得用are比较好,从意思上说shang一直由于...出名,而不是过去曾经出名,现在不再出名

俺verbal有待加强

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