一道prep题，谢谢大家的帮忙，感激不尽：）

joyous314

127.After decreasing steadily in the mid-1990's, the percentage of students in the United States finishing high school or having earned equivalency diplomas increased in the last three years of the decade, up to 86.5 percent in 2000 from 85.9 percent in 1999 and 84.8 percent in 1998.

(A) finishing high school or having earned equivalency diplomas increased in the last three years of the decade, up to 86.5 percent in 2000 from 85.9 percent in 1999 and
(B) finishing high school or earning equivalency diplomas, increasing in the last three years of the decade, rising to 86.5 percent in 2000 from 85.9 percent in 1999 and from
(C) having finished high school or earning an equivalency diploma increased in the last three years of the decade, and rose to 86.5 percent in 2000 from 85.9 percent in 1999 and from
(D) who either finished high school or they earned an equivalency diploma, increasing in the last three years of the decade, rose to 86.5 percent in 2000 from 85.9 percent in 1999 and
(E) who finished high school or earned equivalency diplomas increased in the last three years of the decade, to 86.5 percent in 2000 from 85.9 percent in 1999 and

答案是E

问题

1、如果用finishing的话，finishing修饰percentage还是修饰students还是修饰两个都可以？（在不考虑逻辑语义的情况下）

2、E选项中，最后一个and后面是省略了from吗？

谢谢大家的帮忙，感激不尽！

joyous314

我的结论是 A of B 绝大多数 后面的修饰语用来修饰A。

-- by 会员 wangjieava23 (2011/5/11 12:54:43)

S V A of B, n(S主语V谓语n任意名词) 这个时候n可能是A或者B的同位语，n本身的意思决定了是A还是B的同位语，是木有歧义的
至于分词的结构还是根据语义吧，就像二楼说的，如果有同位语代替分词结构就用同位语

joyous314

1.不要在这个问题上纠结，无数的例子证明，这个不是判断正误关键，虽然有这个可能性修饰percentage，但你不知道什么时候gmac认为它是ambiguity,或者什么时候gmac认为它是“逻辑上合理且唯一的”修饰了students

提供一个prep正确句子做参考：
Among lower-paid workers, union members are less likely than nonunion members to be enrolled in
lower-end insurance plans that impose stricter limits on medical services and require doctors to see more patients,spending less time with each.
这里spending修饰的问题有很多争议，但是gmac认为这是正确的，或者说他是正确的仅仅因为其他4个都是错误的

楼主的题目同上，排除A的时态等其他问题，没有E选项，A就是正确的

引申开来，很多人喜欢纠结在A of B that.+clause.这种结构时从句修饰歧义的问题，这是舍本逐末的方法，任何一个错误选项，绝对不会只因为A of B that... 这种所谓修饰的歧义而错误，可以这样说这种修饰结构根本就不是GMAC意在制造错误的地方。

-- by 会员 alannesta (2011/5/11 12:14:20)

恩，谢谢你的解答，自己又钻牛角尖了，哈哈
那么第二个问题呢？and后省略了from？

wangjieava23

希望大家一起讨论

wangjieava23

我的结论是 A of B 绝大多数 后面的修饰语用来修饰A。

alannesta

1.不要在这个问题上纠结，无数的例子证明，这个不是判断正误关键，虽然有这个可能性修饰percentage，但你不知道什么时候gmac认为它是ambiguity,或者什么时候gmac认为它是“逻辑上合理且唯一的”修饰了students

提供一个prep正确句子做参考：
Among lower-paid workers, union members are less likely than nonunion members to be enrolled in
lower-end insurance plans that impose stricter limits on medical services and require doctors to see more patients,spending less time with each.
这里spending修饰的问题有很多争议，但是gmac认为这是正确的，或者说他是正确的仅仅因为其他4个都是错误的

楼主的题目同上，排除A的时态等其他问题，没有E选项，A就是正确的

引申开来，很多人喜欢纠结在A of B that.+clause.这种结构时从句修饰歧义的问题，这是舍本逐末的方法，任何一个错误选项，绝对不会只因为A of B that... 这种所谓修饰的歧义而错误，可以这样说这种修饰结构根本就不是GMAC意在制造错误的地方。