GMATPrep中的一道语法题

quickgao

As the former chair of the planning board for 18 consecutive years and a board member for 28 years, Joan Phikill attended more than 300 meetings and reviewed more than 400 rezoning applications.

(A) As the former

(B) The former

(C) Former

(D) She was

(E) As the

答案(E) .为什么(A), (B), (C)不行？我觉得都说的过去啊。谢谢

二狼神

这题出得好,典型的ETS式语法.原文说了:for 18 consecutive years ,ABC用了former产生逻辑意思错误:做了18年的前..职位.

quickgao

是不是for 18 consecutive years.....for 28 years已经表示了“前”的意思，所以再用former重复？

xizzhu

以下是引用quickgao在2006-5-18 4:00:00的发言：

As the former chair of the planning board for 18 consecutive years and a board member for 28 years, Joan Phikill HAD attended more than 300 meetings and reviewed more than 400 rezoning applications.

(A) As the former

(B) The former

(C) Former

(D) She was

(E) As the

答案(E) .为什么(A), (B), (C)不行？我觉得都说的过去啊。谢谢

If "as the former person for 18 years .. and for 28 years", the main sentence should be "the person had done sth"

毛毛青虫

我觉得是不是这样：因为former或是present只是一个瞬间的事，一旦你卸任，你就是former的了。但是原文中是for 18 years，所以需要一种能表示持续一段时间的表达方法。哈哈，个人之见。