The answer of 885 - 2 is wrong

yuanlipinglily

After reviewed OG (11th), I found I need more materials. Just dowloaded 885 and found the answer of No2 is different to OG.

OG'  answer is D.

2       A 1972 agreement between Canada and the United States reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities had been allowed to dump into the Great Lakes.

(A) reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities had been allowed to dump

(B) reduced the phosphate amount that municipalities had been dumping

(C) reduces the phosphate amount municipalities have been allowed to dump

(D) reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities are allowed to dump（A）

(E) reduces the amount of phosphates allowed for dumping by municipalities

catking2003

..............the answer is undoubtedly A !! and I don't remember og has this question, anyway.

how can you use present tense to modify subject in a sentence in which there are only past-tense words, and  "municipalities had been allowed to dump" indicates that this action predates the agreement.

yuanlipinglily

Below is the explain by OG:

An agreement that occurred in 1972 is correctly described with the past tense verb reduced. Since the dumping continues into the present, the past perfect verb had been allowed should instead be the present are allowed.

A Had been allowed should be are allowed

B The phosphate amount should be the amount of phosphates;the meaning of the sentence is changed by the omission of any form of allow

C The present tense reduces should be the past tense reduced; the phosphate amount should be the amount of phosphates;have been allowed should be are allowed

D Correct. The past tense reduced is correctly used in this sentence to describe a past action, and the present tense are allowed is used to describe the present situation.

E The present tense reduces should be the past tense reduced; allowed for dumping is an incorrect idiom;allowed for dumping by municipalities is awkward

The correct answer is D.

yuanlipinglily

OG-62.(11th Edition)

XUANYA2005

以下是引用catking2003在2005-10-16 18:49:00的发言：

..............the answer is undoubtedly A !! and I don't remember og has this question, anyway.

how can you use present tense to modify subject in a sentence in which there are only past-tense words, and  "municipalities had been allowed to dump" indicates that this action predates the agreement.

if you use "had been", that means this action predates the agreement, so how can that agreement reduce something finished before the agreement?

catking2003

right. I guess I confuse meanings of "reduce"and "allow" they are not contradicted