请教一个机警引发的问题

Young people leaving school without any diploma have, since the end of the 1970s, been the first to be affected by the rise in unemployment. But young people holding a diploma, whose situation deteriorated between 1993 and 1997, have been the first to benefit from the effects of the economic upturn and improvements in conditions for entry into the workplace. However, 2000 saw a particularly marked reduction in unemployment amongst the least qualified (13).

1998 saw that (一个现象)，it but also saw that… (开始看到1998开头就给排除了，最后看看，其它的选项好像是both…and…出错)，就选了它。这个是6月机警里的.

SAW:a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people [syn: proverb, adage, byword]

请分析 1998 SAW是啥意思?作为一个名词还是一个动词?

强 继续讨论的说

同楼上。一个例子可以在这个联结找到：

http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2002/mar/wk2/art03.htm

2000 saw largest increase in multifactor productivity since 1992.

2000年出现了自1992年来最大的多因素生产率增长。

把大全翻了个遍,总算被我揪出来了:

大全739:

The end of the eighteenth century saw the emergence of prize-stock breeding, with individual bulls and cows receiving awards, fetching unprecedented prices, and excited enormous interest whenever they were put on show.

(A) excited

(B) it excited

(C) exciting

(D) would excite C（C）

(E) it had excited

拟人手法 the end of the 18^th century saw the emergence…..

wish hopeful.

1998 saw that (一个现象)，it but also saw that… (开始看到1998开头就给排除了，最后看看，其它的选项好像是both…and…出错)，就选了它。

谢谢楼上各位 真是强呀

我的分析原创的人选择不对 蓝色划线的这个的语法行的通吗?