PREP2-28 考前求助,望NN们帮助解惑

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In 1997, despite an economy that marked its sixth full year of uninterrupted expansion with the lowest jobless rate in a quarter century, the number of United States citizens declaring themselves bankrupt has jumped by almost 20 percent, at 1.34 million.

(A) declaring themselves bankrupt has jumped by almost 20 percent, at

(B) declaring themselves bankrupt jumped by almost 20 percent, to

(C) who declared themselves bankrupt has jumped by almost 20 percent, to

(D) who declared themselves bankrupt jumped almost by 20 percent, at

(E) to declare themselves bankrupt jumped almost by 20 percent, at

答案选B

我有两个疑问:

1.怎么能用现在分词declaring修饰一个过去行为呢?1997年的动作. 现在分词不是有动作持续到现在的含义么?觉得稍有不妥

2.分词可以就近修饰么?不是说分词修饰句子的主语么?主语不是number么? 就是修饰的中心词也是number啊...

快考试了还搞不清楚,望大家帮忙~

120. The Parthenon was a church from 1204 until 1456, when Athens was taken by General Mohammed the Conqueror, the Turkish sultan, who established a mosque in the building and used the Acropolis as a fortress.

(A)  who established a mosque in the building and used the Acropolis as

(B)  who, establishing a mosque in the building, used the Acropolis like

(C)  who, when he had established a mosque in the building, used the Acropolis like

(D)
                        who had established a mosque in the building,
                    using the Acropolis to be

(E)   establishing a mosque in the building and using
                    the Acropolis as

Choice A, the best answer, correctly supplies the past tense verbs established and used to describe two actions performed in 1456; also, it idiomatically employs the phrase used the Acropolis as a fortress,
                            in which used as means "employed in the capacity of."
                        Choices B and C incorrectly replace as wiui like.
                        Furthermore, in C, when he had established a mosque distorts the intended meaning by stating that the first action was completed before the second was begun. Similarly, in D, had established... using states that Mohammed had already performed the actions before capturing Athens; and in E, establishing and using modify Athens, thus producing an absurd statement.
                            In addition, D includes the unidiomatic construction "using x to be y."

OG不是也说用分词修饰...absurd么...请NN解释一下怎么absurd了...汗

等待大家的帮助...

现在分词declaring修饰这里表示的是主动的意思。这里修饰的是citizens，不是一个动作。分词当然可以就近修饰 ，LZ说的修饰主语的情况是分词在句首或者句末是需要考虑逻辑主语。句首当然是修饰主语，句末就比较复杂了，可以修饰主句主语，从句主语，或者前面整句，也可能是宾语，这只能靠句意来判断。像本题这样在句中的遵循就近原则。

就是说establishing and using可以修饰Athens，或者General Mohammed 。所以有歧义

谢谢Zeldaw的热心解答~~~

看来分词修饰还是挺灵活的...

原来看到过说分词就近修饰,也是修饰中心词, 看来也不能当个规律记了.

OG那个看的不仔细...有点误会了 ^_^

这位小友， 我是位新手。很很高兴在这里认识你。我一直在CD上寻找PREP的破解版的300多道题，但好像没找对地方。请问能发给我个相关连接么？感激涕零。