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gemj

5. In 1922, when Truman was almost forty years old, he was living in his mother-in-law’s house, watching the haberdashery store he opened three years earlier go bankrupt, and he faced a future with no visible prospects.
(A) opened three years earlier go bankrupt, and he faced
(B) opened three years earlier go bankrupt and faced
(C) had opened three years earlier go bankrupt, and he was facing
(D) had opened three years earlier go bankrupt, and facing
(E) was opening three years earlier going bankrupt, and facing
(D中的facing可以认为是与watching并列,也可以看作是与he was living并列,省略了he was.其实意思上都能过得去.如果选C,则意思是单一的.为何是D呢?)

braveMBA

D中的watching如果认为是与living并列，而且省略he was，则必须要在前面补出and,因为是个句子，必须有连接词，没有AND，说明是分词修饰，所以facing 应是分词，其前面的and 是因为最后一个并列对象必须有and。不过，这题最好还是从逻辑意思上讲，分词更符合句子结构。