LZM E11-85

shazhi

After gradual declension down to about 39 hours to 1970, the workweek in the United States has steadily increased in the point that the average worker now  puts in  an estimated 164 extra hours of paid labor a year.

(D) After gradually declining
(E) Following gradually declining

Ans: D

请问AFTER 和 FOLLOWING在这里的区别，它们在用法上有何不同，谢谢！

shazhi

请大牛跳出来指点一下吧！！！

shazhi

要考试了啊，大牛大牛快来指点指点

mindfree

Why E? You got to know what the choices mean first.

1. With "following", it means that "workweek" follows "declining". "Declining" happens before "workweek". It is just not what the sentence intends.

2. It emphasizes on the action "following". That is not the intent either.

3. "Following the declining" can not be right. "Following its gradual decrease to ..." would be good to me.

So what you should know to work SC is: get the meaning and intent of the sentence; find the simple and clean choice.

createdream

抛一砖

following

n.下列各项, 部下, 党羽
adj.下列的, 其次的
prep.在...之后   

有prep. 的意思.