真题 - 如果是你，选C还是D？

如果是你，选C还是D？ 答案有争议！

23. Trans World Entertainment Corporation, which owns the laceName w:st="on">RecordlaceName> laceType w:st="on">TownlaceType> and Saturday Matinee retail chains, announced that since sales of up to one-fourth of its stores are poor, they will be closed.

A)       that since sales of up to one-fourth of its stores are poor, they will be closed

B)       it is closing up to one-fourth of its stores, which accounted for its poor sales

C)       it was closing up to one fourth of its stores because of poor sales.

D)       to be closing, on account of poor sales, up to one-fourth of its stores.

E)     having poor sales, such that up to one-fourth of its stores will be closed.

查了Longman, 似乎announce后面可以省略that引导宾语从句, 但是例句保留了, 而且GMAT中宾语从句的保留that是一种正规表达方式, D的announce to do的用法不idiomatic, C我觉得算是Run-on.

我选A, A中后面的they指代stores.

同意Avantasia

从GWD那边给过来的答案是C， 另有其他source给出D的答案。我本人倾向于选C。A有明显硬伤呀， “They”指代不明确呀？前面两个主语... 但C,D之间，我是凭语感选C。不确定D的语法点错在哪里。是anounce to do 不行，只能说“anounce that" 嘛？

还有，很不好意思地问，什么叫“run-on"?

支持

可能应该是C.我一开始没看清。A的they确实指代不清，A指its stores但这样意思就不对了。

D的anounce to do可能不好：Longman有这样的句子：They announced plans to close 11 factories.

on account of 不好，一般because从句优于because of优于on account of ，而且在做过的题目中我还没有印象on account of做正确选项的。OG好像也提到过它们之间差别，但我一下找不到。另外on account of这里做插入语意思表达也不好，好像是说 这个Corporation poor sales，而更准确地说是one-fourth of its stores poor sales。

这样比较，C要好些。尽管宾语从句省that不好，但也可接受。

BTW，run-on好像指两个句子没连词。

Run-on是我用词不当, 主要我觉得省略了that会产生一个句子两个动词, 虽然这个似乎可以省略。

我觉得还是A，they的指代stores挺清晰的，符合逻辑，而且A先因后果的表达方式也挺合适的。

Drives me crazy... 神呀，降旨吧，到底选啥呀？！ 要是考试时真遇上了，怎么办？ 各路豪侠众说纷纭，群雄逐鹿，鏖战中原，谁来平定沃土？！

不然，拈花瓣吧，是这个，不是这个，使这个，不是这个....

我觉得选C。

A中since sales of up to one-fourth of its stores are poor, they will be closed是一般将来时，而announced是过去时。