有几道语法问题不懂，不知xdjm们能否帮忙，谢了先！

happy_huan

（大全302.）（《补充教材》337）
For all his professed disdain of such activities, Auden was an inveterate literary gossip.
(A) For all his professed disdain of such activities
(B) Having always professed disdain for such activities
(C) All such activities were, he professed, disdained, and
(D) Professing that all such activities were disdained
(E) In spite of professions of disdaining all such activities
这句话什么意思？ 考的是be ... for...么？（不会吧……）

（大全829.）（《补》425）
The speculative fever of the Roaring Twenties infected rich and poor alike; vast quantities of people were dangerously overextended, credit was absurdly easy to obtain, and most brokerage houses required only ten percent cash for stocks bought on “margin.”
(A) rich and poor alike; vast quantities of people were dangerously overextended
(B) both rich and poor alike; large amounts of people dangerously overextended themselves
(C) rich and poor alike; great numbers of people were dangerously overextended
(D) both rich and poor alike; vast amounts of people dangerously overextended themselves
(E) both rich and poor; great quantities of people were dangerously overextended
rich and poor alike跟both rich and poor有什么不同嘛？是不是考点呢？

期待大家百忙中抽空为我解答，先行谢过！

yzlinlin

1,大意是：尽管他声称对此类行为很鄙视，但A自己是个十足的文学谣言制造者。

2，这题主要是考quantities of ，amounts of & amounts of的可数不可数修饰。