一道语法题，自己不明白请大神解释！！（prep)

anita7664

Mideast immigrants' rates of entrepreneurship exceed virtually every other immigrant group in the increasingly diverse United States economy.

• AMideast immigrants' rates of entrepreneurship exceed
• BMideast immigrants are exhibiting rates of entrepreneurship exceeding
• CImmigrants from the Mideast exhibit rates of entrepreneurship exceeding those of
• DThe rates of entrepreneurship in immigrants from the Mideast exceed
• EThe rates of Mideast immigrants' entrepreneurship exceeds those of
  正确答案是C
• 我想问一下这里的C选项exceeding是现在分词 没有逗号应该是临近修饰前面的名词，就是entreprenership. 后面的those of 指的是rates，那么entreprenership和rates 无法比较呀。同时这里的those 会不会造成歧义？我是指those 是否会有指代immigrants 的嫌疑？
  

anita7664

自己顶。。真的是不明白呀

vi.len

不会。整句话应该是Immigrants from the Mideast exhibit（that）+ rates of entrepreneurship exceeding those of virtually every other immigrant group in the increasingly diverse United States economy，是从句。exceeding修饰的是rates (of entrepreneurship是modifier).  those of指代rates

anita7664

vi.len 发表于 2016-8-12 12:03
不会。整句话应该是Immigrants from the Mideast exhibit（that）+ rates of entrepreneurship exceeding t ...

谢谢回复，那这里exceeding 修饰rate 的话是exceeding的什么用法呀？我一直以为 现在分词做定语前面没有逗号就是修饰紧跟着的名词，如果有介宾结构会有歧义。