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247. Faced with an estimated $2 billion budget gap, the city's mayor proposed a nearly 17 percent reduction in the amount allocated the previous year to maintain the city's major cultural institutions and to subsidize hundreds of local arts groups.

(A)              proposed a nearly 17 percent reduction in the amount allocated the previous year to maintain the city's major cultural institutions and to subsidize

(B)              proposed a reduction from the previous year of nearly 17 percent in the amount it was allocating to maintain the city's major cultural institutions and for subsidizing

(C)             proposed to reduce, by nearly 17 percent, the amount from the previous year that was allocated for the maintenance of the city's major cultural institutions and to subsidize

(D)             has proposed a reduction from the previous year of nearly 17 percent of the amount it was allocating for maintaining the city's major cultural institutions, and to subsidize

(E)              was proposing that the amount they were allocating be reduced by nearly 17 percent from the previous year for maintaining the city's major cultural institutions and for the subsidization

the previous year 是 allocated  的宾语还是时间状语

另外In D, there is no gram­matical referent for it in the phrase it was allocating: the mayor, not the city, is the subject of the clause.

it 不是可以前面的the amount吗

这个题昨天我也错了，跟你想的一样，既然A是对的，那 the previous year就应该是时间状语了

If it refers to amount, then it is illogically to indicate that "amount was allocating...."

247. Faced with an estimated $2 billion budget gap, the city's mayor proposed a nearly 17 percent reduction in the amount allocated the previous year to maintain the city's major cultural institutions and to subsidize hundreds of local arts groups.

(A)              proposed a nearly 17 percent reduction in the amount allocated the previous year to maintain the city's major cultural institutions and to subsidize

(B)              proposed a reduction from the previous year of nearly 17 percent in the amount it was allocating to maintain the city's major cultural institutions and for subsidizing

(C)             proposed to reduce, by nearly 17 percent, the amount from the previous year that was allocated for the maintenance of the city's major cultural institutions and to subsidize

(D)             has proposed a reduction from the previous year of nearly 17 percent of the amount it was allocating for maintaining the city's major cultural institutions, and to subsidize

(E)              was proposing that the amount they were allocating be reduced by nearly 17 percent from the previous year for maintaining the city's major cultural institutions and for the subsidization

the previous year 是 allocated  的宾语还是时间状语

时间状语

另外In D, there is no gram­matical referent for it in the phrase it was allocating: the mayor, not the city, is the subject of the clause.

it 不是可以前面的the amount吗

我看到a项里的reduction, 就直接根据reduce(v.)>reduction(n.)把a排除了~~~~

这个思路怎么办啊？