OG 16 VERBAL REVIEW SC #14 求教

stringr

A March 2000 Census Bureau survey showed that Mexico accounted for more than quarter of all foreign-born residents of the United States, the largest share for any country to contribute since 1890, when about 30 percent of the countrys foreign-born population was from Germany.
(A) the largest share for any country to contribute
(B) the largest share that any country has contributed
(C) which makes it the largest share for any country to contribute
(D) having the largest share to be contributed by any country
(E) having the largest share to have been contributed by any country

B Correct. This form of the appositive is the most efficient way to express the comparison. Depending on when the sentence was written and what the writer intended to express, the verb form could be either had contributed or has contributed. The use of has contributed implies that, from the perspective of the sentence, the comparison between German-born U.S. residents and those from other countries still holds true.

stringr

自己顶一下

(A) the largest share for any country to contribute
OG解释：for any country to contribute冗长、不直接
但楼主认为原因在于(A)与题意不符，因为share是被contributed by country的，而不是for country to contribute的

(B) the largest share that any country has contributed
the largest share是more than quarter of all foreign-born residents的同位语吗？
+ to是否可行？ --> the largest share that any country has contributed to OR the largest share to that/which any country has contributed

(C) which makes it the largest share for any country to contribute
OG解释：which和it指代不明
楼主认为还有一点，同(A)

(D) having the largest share to be contributed by any country
请问having修饰什么？是Mexico还是more than quarter of all foreign-born residents？
to be带有目的性，不对

(E) having the largest share to have been contributed by any country
to have been done 应该做，但没做，与题意不符

以上的解释合理吗？请大神指教！Thanks!

阿霖

以下为RON对having的解释："having" is problematic, because Mexico doesn't "have" that share of people anymore. (the people are gone from Mexico--they live in the US now, according to the sentence.)

stringr

阿霖 发表于 2016-8-14 20:09
以下为RON对having的解释："having" is problematic, because Mexico doesn't "have" that share of people ...

Many thanks!