OG11th 99题

99．  Judge Bonham denied a motion to allow members of the jury to go home at the end of each day instead of to confine them to a hotel．

(A)  to allow members of the jury to go home at the end of each day instead of to confine them to

(B)  that would have allowed members of the jury to go home at the end of each day instead of confined to

(C)  under which members of the jury are allowed to go home at the end of each day instead of confining them in

(D)  that would allow members of the jury to go home at the end of each day rather than confinement in

(E)  to allow members of the jury to go home at the end of each day rather than be confined to

Parallelism + Idiom

The logic of this sentence has two possible options for the members of the jury：they can go home or be confined to a hotel The first option is expressed using the infinitive to go home; the second option should use the parallel form(to understood)be confined．Since the members of the jury are not doing the confining themselves, the passive form must be used．The construction (x) instead of (y)，when x and y, are infinitives，is clumsy；the idiomatic construction (x) rather than (x) is better here．Both constructions require x and y to be parallel．

正确答案E

我看此题解释的意思是，to be confined比较对应的是to go home，所以必须用被动语态。

但我觉得其实他对应的应该是to allow members 。。。。     那就必须用被动语态了。 请高手解释下为何不选A

to allow members 和 to be confined 可以形成对比吗？

allow members to go home和 （allow members to） be confined 不是很合理吗？

A 就错在instead of  后面的of是介词，后面能放to do 吗？

相信你应该明白了~