求助prep08 212. (GWD-26-Q23)

dzjx

Trans World Entertainment Corporation, which owns the Record Town and Saturday Matinee retail chains, announced that since sales of up to one-fourth of its stores are poor, they will be closed.
A. that since sales of up to one-fourth of its stores are poor, they will be closed
B. it is closing up to one-fourth of its stores, which accounted for its poor sales
C. it was closing up to one fourth of its stores because of poor sales
D. to be closing, on account of poor sales, up to one-fourth of its stores
E. having poor sales, such that up to one-fourth of its stores will be closed

答案是C，但我觉得后面的because of poor sales有歧义啊，到底是指的it（TWEC）还是stores呢？

VincentFSJ

单数可以指代复数吗？哪儿来的歧义呢？

driftingboy

it 和 its 同时指代TWEC

dzjx

VincentFSJ 发表于 2016-9-26 22:42
单数可以指代复数吗？哪儿来的歧义呢？

because of poor sales,到底是谁的poor sales？是it的poor sales还是那些stores的poor sales，C能回答吗？

dzjx

driftingboy 发表于 2016-9-27 04:06
it 和 its 同时指代TWEC

不是it的问题，是到底是谁产生的poor sales? TWEC还是TWEC的stores？

dzjx

有没有大神能解释下啊？

dzjx

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