求助新大全245题（原补充题194）

1.        Discrimination in wages paid in occupations that are predominantly male over the predominantly female have given rise to substantial differentials between the wage of housepainters and secretaries and between the wages of parking-lot attendants and library assistants.

(A) paid in occupations that are predominantly male over the predominantly female have

(B) paid in occupations that are predominantly male over those that are predominantly female have

(C) that favors predominantly male occupations over the predominantly female have

(D) that favors predominantly male occupations over those that are predominantly female has

(E) paid in predominantly male occupations over the predominantly female has

答案是E，我选的是D。这里搞不太明白over的用法，我选D的理由就是因为D里面有一个those，这样指代很清晰，是付给男性占优势的职业的工资和付给女性占优势的职业的工资之间的对比，而不是工资和职业之间的对比，E就给人这种感觉。就算说E将相同的词省略了，省略也有一个基本前提就是避免歧义，不影响理解，如果要避免歧义，E在the predominantly female前面缺少了一个in。

D中 that favors predominantly male occupations over those that are predominantly female

后面那个those that are 很累赘。就像 I gave him more money than that was given to you.

gmat改错中正确答案很少这么啰嗦的，遇到这样的句子尽量找简洁的。