大全948, 天山-14以前讨论没有答案

14. A discussion of our nation’s foreign policy must begin with the fact of there being an independent Western Europe which now thinks of itself in trans-nationalist terms.
(A) A discussion of our nation’s foreign policy must begin with the fact of there being
(B) Beginning any discussion of our nation’s foreign policy must be the fact of there being
(C) Any discussion of our nation’s foreign policy must begin with the fact that there is
(D) Any discussion of our nation’s foreign policy must begin by acknowledging the existence of
(E) To begin discussing our nation’s foreign policy thee must be an acknowledgment of the fact that
我选的是C, 而答案是D.可是我怎么看不出错在哪儿呢,另,我怎么觉得D 的表述奇奇怪怪的呢
而且从原句中(a)并没有表现出其想表达acknowledging 的意思

而且a本身用的就是there be 表示状态

想请nn讲一下

yes, you are right, a used there be.  

but 'with the fact of there being(is) ' and independent Europe == 'by acknowleging the existense of'

This to me is much better than 'there be'.

XDF说：

一般情况下

there be 和 being 都是错误答案标志  不选为妙

begin with: 通过介词with的含义判断,应该接discussion的内容的一部分

begin by sth/doing sth:通过介词by的含义判断,应该接discussion begin的前提条件,也就是通过sth/doing sth去触发discussion.