大全455题的疑问

xbrad222

1.        Joachim Raff and Giacomo Meyerbeer are examples of the kind of composer who receives popular acclaim while living, often goes into decline after death, and never regains popularity again.

(A) often goes into decline after death, and never regains popularity again[x1] 

(B) whose reputation declines after death and never regains its status again

(C) but whose reputation declines after death and never regains its former status

(D) who declines in reputation after death and who never regained popularity again（C）

(E) then has declined in reputation after death and never regained popularity

c选项的its到底指代什么，是指composer吗，为什么不用his。而且主语被一个whose引导的从句隔开。谢谢

gonghao

its refers to “reputation”

句子结构是：句子1，but + 句子2

句子2：主语reputation ；谓语1：declines；谓语2：regains

whose仅仅是修饰了reputation