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103. Students in the metropolitan school district lack math skills to such a large degree as to make it difficult to absorb them into a city economy becoming ever more dependent on information-based industries.

(A) lack math skills to such a large degree as to make it difficult to absorb them into a city economy becoming

(B) lack math skills to a large enough degree that they will be difficult to absorb into a city’s economy that becomes

(C) lack of math skills is so large as to be difficult to absorb them into a city’s economy that becomes

(D) are lacking so much in math skills as to be difficult to absorb into a city’s economy becoming（E）

(E) are so lacking in math skills that it will be difficult to absorb them into a city economy becoming

E的them指代students还是skills，为什么？
有absorb sth into sth

be absorbed in sth

be absorbed into sth

没有absorb sb into sth。

那them还是有指代的模糊啊。

them=students

absorb sb/sth into sth

here sb and sth have no different.

them 不是优先指代主句的主语students吗？

同一楼上的，

比如说：c答案：

lack of math skills is so large  as to be difficult to absorb them into a city’s economy that becomes

OG解释说them指代错误，就是因为lack作为名词成为这句话的主语lack of math skills is so large  。所以them 就优先指代这句话的主语lack了。

个人的体会。

优先指代好象是指代词作从句主语时优先指代主句主语吧,可是这里them是作不定式宾语啊,

而且og对C的解释是and them refers illogically to skills rather than students,

也并不是模糊指代了主句主语lack啊

希望有人进一步指点

(C) lack of math skills is so large as to be difficult to absorb them into a city’s economy that becomes

整个句子省略后为：students to absorb them into a city；这样一来，them根本不可能指代students，而是them出现之前的另外一个复数词：skills；

(E) are so lacking in math skills that it will be difficult to absorb them into a city economy becoming

so that表结果，that后可以变成：to absorb them into a city will be difficult，这里的them优先指代主语，与前面各位说的相似，楼主疑惑的应该是C中的them为何不可指代students而E中可以指代的问题，上述的划线部分给出了我的个人意见。

OasisWater，整个句子省略后为：students to absorb them into a city；这样一来，them根本不可能指代students，而是them出现之前的另外一个复数词：skills，

你回的这句有点不能理解，为什么要这么省略，是怎么省出来的，这个them的解释相当困惑。

谢谢！！！