[求助]OG-90

90. Since 1986, when the Department of Labor began to allow investment officers' fees to be based on how the funds they manage perform, several corporations began paying their investment advisers a small basic fee, with a contract promising higher fees if the managers perform well.

(A)              investment officers’ fees to be based on how the
            funds they manage perform, several corporations began

(B)             investment officers’ fees to be based on the
            performance of the funds they manage,
            several corporations began

(C)             that fees of investment officers be based on how the funds they manage perform, several corporations have begun

(D)             fees of investment officers to be based on the performance of the funds they manage,
            several corporations have begun

(E)              that investment officers' fees be based on the
            performance of the funds they manage,
            several corporations began

The clause beginning Since 1986... indicates that the practice described in the second clause continued for some period of time after it began. Choice D, the best answer, supplies the present perfect have begun, which conveys this continuity; D also uses a construction that is appropriate when "allow" means "permit": allow... to be based on. Choices A, B, and E incorrectly use the past tense began rather than the present perfect; furthermore, in each of these options, they has no referent, since officers is a possessive modifier of fees. Choices A and C include the awkward phrase based on how the funds they manage perform.
            Choices C and E incorrectly use allow that.. .fees be based.

请问绿色部分错的理由是什么呢？allow后用虚拟不对么？谢谢指教！

hi~

我觉得：

首先是they的指代问题，they 应该指代officers吧，A B E 中的they都优先指代fees，所以 A B E 错

然后是allow一般不用虚拟，所以 C E错

再是时态，since后面用present perfect， 所以A B E错

只有D对的~ ：p

嘿嘿,to tiger: 偶纠正你的一个小问题哈,they不是优先直待fees,而是只能指代这个,因为they是不能指代所有格officers'的

楼主: 偶的意见是allow that和allow to do的意思有细微的差别的,前者表示承认,后者表示允许,这里,只能用后者

哈哈 第一点，对的对的。

第2点补充一点 allow+that只能表示承认的意思，要表示允许只能用allow to do.

She allowed that she might have been too suspicious.

明白啦

谢谢指教 嘿嘿

我想再问一下关于they 的指代, OG上经常有类似的考指代的题目,但到目前为止我没有弄明白, 代词指代究竟该怎么看?

此题解释说 A B E 的 they 指代中心词 fee,officer 只是fee的修饰词, 所以导致逻辑错误, 但正确答案 D 中心词也算fee 呀, 在这点上D与A B E 并没有差异,为什么还是D对呢?

查了一下原来的讨论, 我的疑问和大家讨论的焦点一样:

1.原文未划线部分their指代的是corporation,而划线部分their 指代officer, 是不是说明 在同一句中, it/they/them, 只能指代一个名词, 而they,their 可以指代不同名词?

2. A of B 结构, 如果后面跟谓语的话, 是看A,从另一种角度来讲也就是 A是中心词, 那么为什么 D中的 they 指代 officer,由此又可以推得 fee 是中心词. 是不是太矛盾了?

恳请NN指点, 似乎这道题 颇有探讨性与典型性.