Prep 2-72 关于虚拟语气

kenny19941012

Several educational research groups are denouncing the mayor's proposal of a system by which individual teachers would be given raises or bonuses should it be that test scores show their students' mastery of reading skills having improved over a nine-month period.

(A) should it be that test scores show their students' mastery of reading skills having
(B) should it be that test scores show their students' mastery of reading skills have
(C) should test scores showing their students' mastery of reading skills has
(D) if test scores showing their students' mastery of reading skills having
(E) if test scores show that their students' mastery of reading skills has
选e, 可是原题中的would代表了虚拟 if条件句中怎么用现在时呢

老李同志

if you have to use subjunctive, then the answer would be 'should it be that test scores show that their students' mastery of reading skills has'.

Nicoleubc

同意楼上的解释。但是我觉得这个句子应该是conditional不是subjunctive。The English subjunctive is used to form sentences that do not describe known objective facts. These include statements about one's state of mind, such as opinion, belief, purpose, intention, or desire. The subjunctive mood is also used for statements that are contrary to fact, such as If I were a giraffe, ... (subjunctive), as distinguished from I was a child. （from：http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_subjunctive#Use_of_the_present_subjunctive）这里的if，不是表假设，而是表条件。所以不应该是subjunctive，就直接排除了abc，然后d甚至都不是一个完整句子。当然就选e啦

ukyo2003

我同意是条件句，这里用would是合适的，因为条件没有发生，不能用will表示确定的趋势。
另外讨论以下虚拟：
1、我觉得应该这么虚拟，it be是多余的，should test score show that their students' mastery of reading skills has
2、虚拟结果应该描述为 individual teachers would have been given raises or bonuses表示并没有发生的虚拟结果

欢迎讨论，虚拟语气挺难的，希望多掌握一点

tianzhiwen

Nicoleubc 发表于 2015-5-27 14:16
同意楼上的解释。但是我觉得这个句子应该是conditional不是subjunctive。The English subjunctive is used  ...

我还是不太明白，所以如果是代表subjunctive, 那主句和从句都要用虚拟语态，如果是conditional, 从句可以不用虚拟语态? 我做这道题时纠结了好久，为什么E 主句用了would, 而从句是一般现在时。。如果是conditional, 那理论上主句也不能用would这种虚拟口气呀。