我喜欢这种题目,没有划线的部分直接决定了划线部分应该怎么写. In addition to being China’s first administrators, in the sense that they developed a coherent bureaucracy for their empire, the first literate culture in East Asia were the Shang, and they were well known for crafting ornate bronze ritual vessels. 一看到划线的first administrators,就知道主语肯定不能用culture,一看到下面的they developed,就知道主语是复数形式,看到这两点,答案也就出来了.希望考试的时候碰到的都是这种类型的题目,不考jjww的细节语法点,只考这种由已知直接推出未知的题目.
有关于为何用the Shang were the first literate culture….,因为这是过去事实,不存在现在的时间点,商朝已经灭忙了。至于the Shang are well known as the crafters…,是要表现青铜器皿在今日仍知名,我想今日没人有在作吧!如果用了过去式,就代表今日已经不知名啦,是过去知名。