大全970 贴一个老外的分析

zsy020584 · 发表于 2011-6-15 09:56:22

(A) Lincoln, discovering in young manhood the secret that the Yankee peddler has learned before him, knew
(B) Discovering in young manhood the secret that the Yankee peddler has learned before him, Lincoln knew
Both wrong. Need past perfect "had learned."

(C) Lincoln, discovering the secret that the Yankee peddler had learned in young manhood before him, knew
Wrong. "In young manhood" is misplaced.

(D) In young manhood Lincoln discovered the secret that the Yankee peddler had learned before him;
Wrong. Semicolon makes no sense here. A semicolon separates equivalent elements. Here there's an independent clause before but a mere phrase after. If it were a colon, this sentence would be OK.

(E) Lincoln, discovered in young manhood the secret that the Yankee peddler had learned before him, knew
Wrong. The phrase between commas begins with the past participle "discovered," seeming to suggest at first that Lincoln was discovered, but then making no sense at all when "the secret" appears as the object of "discovered."

So every choice is wrong. I believe that the answer is supposed to be D, but that somewhere along the way into 1000SC a colon got changed into a semicolon.

大全970 贴一个老外的分析

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