请问大全23题。

NEW QUESTION: IS "for" 重复?
23.A recent New York Times editorial criticized the city’s election board for, first of all, failing to replace outmoded voting machines prone to breakdowns, and secondarily, for their failure to investigate allegations of corruption involving board members.
(A) secondarily, for their failure to
(B) secondly, for their failure to
(C) secondly, that they failed and did not
(D) second, that they failed to
(E) second, for failing to

criticized the city’s election board for, first of all, failing to ..., and second, (for) failing to

first of all。。。。second。。。。and third

排除ABC

根据平行结构

New York Times criticized election 。。。 failing 。。。。and 。。doing。。。。排除D  得E

另外：

A criticized B for, first of all, for（原句里没有） failing to ..., and second, for failing to...

动词后的介词好像不能随便省得，动词是criticize ；介词不能省的，他们是连续的。

就像 be able to的be在比较的时候就是不能省略的，虽不是介词，但是词组是一体的不能随便省的。

criticize for doing and doing好像是不对的，and直接连接动名词好像是很奇怪的

criticize for doing and for doing是可以的。

如果for表原因的话，for sth and sth 倒是可以的

Thanks, gonghao.
"criticize for doing and doing好像是不对的，and直接连接动名词好像是很奇怪的"---- Good, so
A criticized B for, first of all, doing..., and second, (no "for" here)doing... IS WRONG.

I still have problem to understand the position of "first of all" , which one of the following is common?

A criticized B for, first of all, doing ..., and second, for doing...
or
A criticized B, first of all, for doing..., and second, for doing...

A criticized B for, first of all, doing ..., and second, for doing...－－－－common
or
A criticized B, first of all, for doing..., and second, for doing...－－－－wrong词组不能随意分开。

这里歧异，分开for的话，可以理解为，因为。。。。。and。。。。，所以A criticized B

但是如果是for+－ing做表原因的话是比较奇怪的，for+－ing一般不大用的，还是用because引导比较多

更何况for+doing主语不清，不知事A doing，还是B doing。如果加上for+one's+doing的话，虽然是有了指向，但是这样的结构，在Gmat里是必错的