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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

帮忙讲下lack的用法吧，我已经知道的正确形式有a lack of    lack  sth，不知道对不对。

还有这个题里E选项lacking 是形容词吗。

除此之外，lack还有别的用法吗，或者什么常见的错误用法

个人感觉

这个的区别不是city economy 还是city's economy

而在于前面的a

a city's economy

a city economy

who can explain this question further more? Thanks a lot.

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