Appearing to be the only candidate whose views would be acceptable to its membership, the Youth Canorous finally endorsed Gorge for city council.
A) Appearing to be
B) Seeming to be
C) Because he appeared to be
D) Because he seemed
E) Being
LZ即便你不知道YC的意思,看首字母均大写就应该知道它是组织之类的玩意儿吧。那它如何能成为唯一的候选人呢。整个句子比较短,通过the only candidate我们可以知道这里唯一的“人"只有gorge,所以按照GMAT语法规则的就近原则,逻辑上正确的gorge是无法被修饰到的,能被修饰到的只有YC,因此A,B,E直接排除。D的弱点在于少了to be。