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17.   During the nineteenth century Emily Eden and Fanny Parks journeyed throughout India, sketching and keeping journals forming the basis of news reports about the princely states where they had visited.

(A) forming the basis of news reports about the princely states where they had

(B) that were forming the basis of news reports about the princely states

(C) to form the basis of news reports about the princely states which they have

(D) which had formed the basis of news reports about the princely states where they had（E）

(E) that formed the basis of news reports about the princely states they

答案给的E.请问这题A 选项哪里错了?  那个reports不会是动词吧?? 还是doing有修饰前面sketching and keeping的意思? E确实没错误.但时态不如A好啊!! 而且A中的reports不能做名词用嘛?? 哪位兄弟姐妹帮忙解释一下~~~ 非常感谢~~~也可以+我QQ.130136800

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In choice A it is not immediately clear whether forming modifies journals or parallels sketching and keeping. Also, where they had visited is wordy and inappropriate for a simple reference to past events. Choice B does not establish who visited the princely states, and that were forming should be that formed. Choice C is unclear because to form could be read as either in order to form or so as to form, and the present perfect have visited does not agree with the past tense journeyed. In choice D, as in choice a, where they had is faulty, and had formed suggests that the journals and news reports existed before the journey. E is best for this question of average difficulty.

“主句, doing1 +名词+doing2/done”, 这里doing2/done可认为即能修饰主句，又能修饰前面的名词。这种结构要尽量避免，除非根据逻辑关系，明显不会产生歧义，则可被接受，参见大全877的armed的用法。

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1这道题，实际考到了doing和that从句，做形容词成分修饰名词的区别，一般情况下我认为区别不大，至少ETS在考题中并不经常作为判断正确与否的考点，但有时在可能产歧义的情况下，还是要区别的。本题就是一个比较特别的例子。sketching and keeping journals作伴随状语，相当于副词，不敢肯定的说副词和副词并列一定要and，但形容词是可以省的，从OG的解释中来看，它认为forming可以被认为是状语平行于sketching and keeping 词，这样就造成歧义，不知forming修饰journals还是作状语。因此，用that定语从句就避免了这种歧义，这里that定语从句就比doing显得好。

doing和that从句的区分还可参见og237, 主要区别在特指(全指代)和泛指，从这个角度看, 这里that从句也更好。

2时态。visited和journeyed的意思是查不多的，不存在visited比journeyed早这一说。其实，这几个动词journeyed，sketching and keeping,formed 和visited可看作同时发生的。

3从OG的解释看, OG认为这里to form是状语, 只是意思表达不清。尽管有时so as to也表目的的意思，但更多的情况下是表结果，故to form可以理解成表目的in order to或是表结果 so as to，两种意思都能说的通，故could be read as either in order to form or so as to form。

4. 不定式如果作为动作本身(如作定语), 则需要动作发出者;

但如果不定式作为目的状语, 则不一定需要。

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