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版上搜不到这题，大家都没有争议么，我怎么不会阿555

1.        In the 1950s, when the Chrysler Corporation sponsored a live television show about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, it forbade the actors to mention Lincoln’s name or the name of the Ford Theater because it did not want to plug the competition.

(A) it forbade the actors to mention Lincoln’s name or the name of the Ford Theater because it

(B) they forbade the actors from mentioning Lincoln or the Ford Theater because they

(C) it was forbidden to mention Lincoln or the Ford Theater as they

(D) the actors were forbidden to mention Lincoln’s name or the name of the Ford Theater because they（A）

(E) the actors were forbidden from mentioning Lincoln or the Ford Theater, since they

 大全注释里面的解释是they指代不一致,应it;可是我觉得it不是既可以指代 Corporation 和 a live television show么，而且都合逻辑，难道不会造成歧义吗？
请大家指点一下怎样分析这题，谢谢

代词 通常指代句子的主语

文中 主语corporation 而 a live television show 是宾语

个人理解

谢谢楼上的MM，那么是否在GMAT中代词的指代都是依据这样的原则呢？

如果要指代宾语，应该用什么呢？

代词不是就近指代，代词指代对象的顺序为

1 主从句中，先指代主语的核心词，再指代宾语或表语的核心词，最后指代修饰语中的名词

2 并列句中，有2个或3个句子并列，第二个或第三个句子中的代词应优先指代第一句中主句的名词

                                                                                                    以上出自白勇《GMAT语法全解》

One more question,

Why is choice D wrong ?

There is no "noun" ambiguity here.

Can this word ,forbid, be used in the passive pattern ?

主动优先原则

D错我想主要是因为不是演员要不要plug the competition，而是公司吧。

同意楼上chnp兄的观点，公司应用it而不是they 指代

D前半句读起来还挺顺的，好像就是错在they上，弱问plug the competition是什么意思，之前就是没有理解plug的主语是谁而错选了d