GWD30-39(大家都来看看吧,这道题6月考到了) - 找到原文了

In addition to being China’s first administrators, in the sense that they developed a coherent bureaucracy for their empire, the first literate culture in East Asia were the Shang, and they were well known for crafting ornate bronze ritual vessels.

1. the first literate culture in East Asia were the Shang, and they were well known for crafting

2. the first literate culture in East Asia were the Shang, well known as the crafters of

3. the Shang, as the first literate culture in East Asia, is well known for its crafting

4. the Shang were the first literate culture in East Asia and are well known as the crafters of

5. the Shang were the first literate culture in East Asia and well known for its crafted

答案是D.搞不清楚为什么用were, the Shang是单数名词啊,还是有其他原因,谢谢!

以下是引用香香茶在2006-6-4 21:34:00的发言：
小马，有些题目以前有过讨论的，有些还挺详细，你可以搜索一下，这样会比较节省发贴的时间。

莫有找到啊,是不是XY13里面的重题啊,XY13偶还没做啊

the Sang就做主语了所以跟动词

http://forum.chasedream.com/dispbbs.asp?boardID=23&ID=167522&page=5

for your reference.

多谢!

这题出的还是有点水平的。

the shang是单数还是复数，可以由前面未划线部分的administrators和they来决定，如果没有注意到前面，很有可能看成单数误选C。接着由于and前后分别一个说过去的事情，一个说现在的事情，所以两个谓语动词就算原形一样，可因为过去式和现在式不同，所以一个也不能省。淘汰E。为了避免大家基于不同的见解，针对过去和现在的问题有争议，导致怀疑E中第二个BE动词可省略的话，那么来个it，使它罪加一等，这样不选D都不行了。-------香香茶

In addition to being China’s first administrators,...., the Shang were

主语是the Shang, 朝代是单复数同形吗? 这是一种特别用法还是语法点?The Shang的单复数为什么由administrators?