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268. During the recession of 1973, home mortgage foreclosures resulted in tens of thousands of Americans being evicted from homes that they can no longer afford monthly payments.
(A) that they can
(B) that they could
(C) on which they can
(D) because they can
(E) for which they could

答案E
E 成分如何分析。 为何要用for          D为何不对？

Indigolove

During the recession of 1973, home mortgage foreclosures resulted in tens of thousands of Americans being evicted from homes that they can no longer afford monthly payments.

(A) that they can
(B) that they could
(C) on which they can
(D) because they can
(E) for which they could

First, this is a very short underline sentence, so it mainly has something to do with one word.
And this sentence is dealing with modifier issue, so what modifier do we need? that? on which? for which? or transition word-because?

H.M.F resulted in...........bla bla( Ver bad, terrible )....we need a word here, ( ......... ) because it modifies the previous stuff, and it should make sense, here we are a little bit stuck, but if we see the sentence behind the underline sentence: no longer afford......, oh, we got it! afford for home mortgage foreclosures, and they in these five choice must mean tens of thousands of Americans, so the meaning should be tens of thousands of Americans can no longr afford for ......., so we have answer, which is E.

According to Wiki: Foreclosure is a specific legal process in which a lender attempts to recover the balance of a loan from a borrower who has stopped making payments to the lender by forcing the sale of the asset used as the collateralfor the loan.

The specific legal process result in.............and I think that make sense

Spencer125

Indigolove 发表于 2013-10-22 12:04
During the recession of 1973, home mortgage foreclosures resulted in tens of thousands of Americans  ...

解释的很好。
E我知道了。还想请教D意思不是也对吗？foreclosure导致美国人被驱逐，因为他们付不起每月的还款、？

Indigolove

Spencer125 发表于 2013-10-22 13:15
解释的很好。
E我知道了。还想请教D意思不是也对吗？foreclosure导致美国人被驱逐，因为他们付不起每月 ...

Let's see:

During the recession of 1973, home mortgage foreclosures resulted in tens of thousands of Americans being evicted from homes because they can no longer afford monthly payments.


Could is correct as the entire sentence is in the past tense and hence can would not be in sync, so D.....is wrong for " can" should be could


let's make another funny sentence: The trend of the skinny jeans resulted in tens of thousands of girls being as poor as a church mouse because they can on longer afford the expensive payment.

The reason why those girls are as poor as church mouse is not they can on longer afford the expensive payment

The trend of the skinny jeans resulted in tens of thousands of girls being as poor as a church mouse for which they can on longer afford the expensive payment.



I use Stacey Koprince's words:

In the given SC here, we already know they're being evicted. Why they're being evicted is non-essential info - we still understand what's happening. So we need which.

Also - you'd remissing a "for" in here. They can't afford the payments FOR the homes. You'll hear people say something like "that they can no longer afford monthly payments for." Can't say this - both because "that" is incorrect and because we can't end a sentence with a preposition (for). If you pull "for" earlier in the sentence, it becomes apparent that "that" doesn't work: homes for that they can no longer afford monthly payments. Needs which.

Spencer125

Indigolove 发表于 2013-10-22 13:36
Let's see:

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