两题GWD 难以辨别！！ 求指教！！！！！

kaxaf

Q26. GWD-18-Q29
The contractor and the engineer agree on the cause of the bridge failure, but both blame the other.
A. both blame the other
B. each blames the other
C. each blame the other person
D. both are blaming the other
E. each blames one another
答案选B 可是A为啥不选

Q5. GWD25-Q5.
For many revisionist historians, Christopher Columbus has come to personify devastation and enslavement in the name of progress that has decimated native peoples of the Western Hemisphere.
A. devastation and enslavement in the name of progress that has decimated native peoples of the Western Hemisphere
B. devastation and enslavement in the name of progress by which native peoples of the Western Hemisphere decimated
C. devastating and enslaving in the name of progress those native peoples of the Western Hemisphere which in the name of progress are decimated.
D. devastating and enslaving those native peoples of the western Hemisphere which in the name of progress are decimated.
E. the devastation and enslavement in the name of progress that have decimated the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere.
答案选A  可是E哪里不对了
PS:E选项中的“that”究竟指代什么？

kiwifoodtown

选项E 为什么不对？ that 也可以跳跃指代。 指代devastation and enslavement
那么 当然 可以用 have decimated.

-- by 会员 walt77 (2013/1/3 15:59:27)

that 没有跳跃修饰，它修饰了progress, 所以用 has

kiwifoodtown

第一题如果选A 好像意思就变成这两个都去blame另一个（the other）但实际上是他们互相blame

第二题 that指代的是devastation and enslavement

-- by 会员 Ricky2835 (2012/6/12 16:35:43)

第一题，同意你的解释。

第二题，不对，that从句应修饰progress

walt77

选项E 为什么不对？ that 也可以跳跃指代。 指代devastation and enslavement
那么 当然 可以用 have decimated.

kakahbwyb

E选项，看见前面有个the我就排除了，the特指前面出现过的某个东西，但是这前面没有出现devastation and enslavement。 还有就是看后面文章意思来判断that，that has decimated native peoples，decimate是大量屠杀的意思，看了也只有Christopher Columbus发出的了。

Ricky2835

同问

kaxaf

那究竟怎样可以区分that的指代对象呢?因为之前做过一些题 that可以跳过一些介词指代介词前面的名词  但有时候直接指代它前面的名词

Ricky2835

第一题如果选A 好像意思就变成这两个都去blame另一个（the other）但实际上是他们互相blame

第二题 that指代的是devastation and enslavement