恳请大家来指点：大全606，S20-11

iselibra

606.Research during the past several decades on the nature of language and the processes that produce and make it understandable has revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity.
(A) that produce and make it understandable has revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity
(B) of producing and understanding it have revealed not underlying simplicity but great complexity
(C) by which it is produced and understood has revealed not underlying simplicity but great complexity
(D) by which it is produced and understood have revealed great complexity rather than underlying simplicity
(E) by which one produces and understands it have revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity
这一题BCDE当然各有错误，可是A也有问题阿。
这里的processes that produce and make it understandable 应该是一个明显的逻辑错误，因为produce是一个及物动词，后面应该要跟名词，而后面的make it understandable是一个整体，没道理认为这个it也给前面的produce公用吧
请问大家是怎么看的？

S20-11
Sales of United States manufactured goods to nonindustrialized countries rose to $167 billion in 1992, which is 14 percent more than the previous year and largely offsets weak demand from Europe and Japan.
(A) which is 14 percent more than the previous year
(B) which is 14 percent higher than it was the previous year
(C) 14 percent higher than the previous year’s figure
(D) an amount that is 14 percent more than the previous year was
(E) an amount that is 14 percent higher than the previous year’s figure
答案是E，我选的D。
这里的amount并非一个数字，怎么可以用high来表示呢
我认为amount是一个量，more or less才是与之匹配的巴？

chipmunk

606) "produce" could be either vt or vi. BCDE all has very obvious mistakes.

S20-11) D is wrong because it used 'was' at the end. If we fill in omitted elements, the whole sentence should be like: the amount in 1992 is 14% more than the previous year's amount. We can't put 'was' into it.

When you deal with confusions like this, you need to start from some basic and simple mistakes, and not the more complicated ones.

iselibra

谢谢
俺明白了

hhjc

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