请教大全362

gemj

362.    In a plan to stop the erosion of East Coast beaches, the Army Corps of Engineers proposed building parallel to shore a breakwater of rocks that would rise six feet above the waterline and act as a buffer, so that it absorbs the energy of crashing waves and protecting the beaches.
(A) act as a buffer, so that it absorbs
(B) act like a buffer so as to absorb
(C) act as a buffer, absorbing
(D) acting as a buffer, absorbing（C）
(E) acting like a buffer, absorb
我问的是题外话：
句中的parallel to shore是不是形容词短语修饰breakwater，但因为breakwater后面有复杂的修饰成份所以parallel to shore前置了？
如果是，大家还看见过类似的句子吗？

BetterMan

是的. 类似的句子在杨鹏的那个难句教程里挺多的. GMAT里肯定也有的.

joywzy

absorbing and acting 修饰谁啊?

tianwan

building a breakwater of rocks parallel to shore.

The reason of the inversion is that the 'that' modifying 'a breakwater' has to follow ' a breakwater'. Because the attributive clause led by 'that' is so long that the writer has to place the 'parallel to shore' before ' a breakwater'.

tianwan

'absorbing' and 'protecting' both are  participle adverbial phrases in the attributive clause, the subject of them is 'waterbreak'. It is the 3rd time I choose the wrong answer of this subject, committing same fault 3times. I always marked A without noticing  the 'protecting'.   5555555.....

[此贴子已经被作者于2004-4-9 17:15:54编辑过]

laynn

B选项so as to有没有错？

allen0018

3x