885 section B-2.8.10

eSpirit

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egretxm

8. One pervasive theory explains the introduction of breakfast cereals in the early 1900s as a result of the growing number of automobiles, which led to a decline in horse ownership and a subsequent grain glut; by persuading people to eat what had previously been horse feed, market equilibrium was restored.
(A) by persuading people to eat what had previously been horse feed, market equilibrium was restored
(B) persuading people to eat what had previously been horse feed restored market equilibrium
(C) by persuading people to eat what had previously been horse feed, it restored market equilibrium
(D) the persuasion of people to eat what had previously been horse feed restored market equilibrium
(E) market equilibrium was restored when people were persuaded to eat former horse feed

这里E答案我认为很合适，清楚明白，虽然用来两个被动，但是ETS也没说过被动不能用，只要被动能使句子意思表达更清楚就应该用。 这里恰恰如此。而B 呢，用复杂的动名词结构作句子主语，不简洁！

如果一定要给E找个错，我感觉只能是，eat former horse feed, 人吃的是现在的（以前被用来做马饲料的）cereal, 而不是以前的马饲料。

eSpirit

但答案是B，E不对，用when有一种在一个时点上的感觉。

QQ虫

e还是可以吧，虽然是被动，FEED是名词，饲料的意思。而且E“former horse feed”比B中“what had previously been horse feed ”更简洁。

autumn_leaves

8.划线部分是完整句子表示独立意思,前面是分号(我一开始看成逗号,纳闷半天怎么没连接词)

ring_cheng

同意楼上的意见。

julia_ju

2题是什么意思呢？

chelin_wu1220

2. Modern critics are amused by early scholars’ categorizing Tacitus’s Germania as an ethnographic treatise.
(A) scholars’ categorizing Tacitus’s Germania as
(B) scholars’ categorizing Tacitus’s Germania as if
(C) scholars, categorizing of Tacitus’s Germania as
(D) scholars who categorize Tacitus’s Germania as
(E) scholars who categorize Tacitus’s Germania if
应该选A,这样理解啊,早期的scholars怎么可能去amuse现代的critics呢?他们早就死了,没办法去嘲笑后人