The Baldrick Manufacturing Company has for several years followed a policy aimed at decreasing operating costs and improving the efficiency of its distribution system.
212. The Baldrick Manufacturing Company has for several years followed a policy aimed at decreasing operating costs and improving the efficiency of its distribution system. (A) aimed at decreasing operating costs and improving (B) aimed at the decreasing of operating costs and to improve (C) aiming at the decreasing of operating costs and improving (D) the aim of which is the decreasing of operating costs and improving (E) with the aim to decrease operating costs and to improve
看了看OG提问的链接,说aimed at做形容词,以前好象没见过这种用法啊,版主能再举几个例子吗?
还有42题是不是也是这种结构呢?
42 the current administration,being worried over some foreign trade barriers being removed and our exports failing to increase as a result of deep cuts in the value of the dollar,has formed a group to study ways to sharpen our compeitiveness.
(a)being worried over some foreign trade barriers removed and our exports failing
(b)worring over some foreign trade barriers removed ,also over the failure of our exports
(c)worried about the removal of some foreign trade barrriers and the failure of our exports
(d)in that they were worried about the removal of some os foreign trade barriers and also about the failure of our exports
(e)because if its worry concering the removal of some foreign trade barriers ,also concerning the failure of our exports
关于第一题在新题22中有这样一道关于intend的用法,gwd中也有一道。总之,here intend and aim is to qualify sth not sb. it is the policy/fund which is intended to do/ aimed at doing sth, so here "which is" is omitted, and aimed at/intended to are attribute. I think no.42 is similar.