A 1972 agreement between Canada and the United States into the Great Lakes. A. reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities had been allowed to dump D. reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities are allowed to dump A项为什么不对呢???OG上的解释看不太懂
但是that municipalities had been allowed to dump修饰的是 phosphates ,只是修饰phosphates 。 如果phosphates 前面有the修饰,那你说的对,但是现在phosphates 只是一般意义上的phosphates ,是个通用的名词,而不是特定名词
had been allowed to dump过去完成时表示过去的过去,即agreement签署以前,问题是agreement的签署怎么能减少它签署以前被允许倒进大湖里的phosphates的量呢?agreement签署的时候它之前被允许倒的phosphates量已经是一个过去的历史事件了,它无论如何都不能改变历史,所以这个时态是不对的,只能是过去时(减少签署后允许倒的phosphates的量,但是没持续到现在)或者现在时(现在被允许倒的phosphates量依然被减少)。