请教大全section22几道题

iforone

12.   Until quite recently, American presidents lived in a world in which the public and private realms of their lives were largely separate, and the press cooperated in maintaining the distinction, and Americans judged national leaders without receiving, or expecting, intimate information about them.

(A) and the press cooperated in maintaining the distinction, and

(B) where the press cooperated in maintaining the distinction, and where

(C) for the press cooperated to maintain the distinction and

(D) the press cooperated to maintain the distinction, for（E）

(E) in which the press cooperated in maintaining the distinction, and in which
                    

答案E这个非限制性定语从句是不是隔得太远了点?符合语法要求吗?

On the Great Plains, nineteenth-century settlers used mud and grass to build their homes, doing it without timber and nails.

(A) settlers used mud and grass to build their homes, doing it without

(B) settlers used mud and grass to build their homes, did it without

(C) settlers used mud and grass to build their homes, making them while not having

(D) settlers used mud and grass to build their homes, making do without（D）

(E) settlers’ homes were built of mud and grass, making do without

不太明白making do的意思,NN请解释一下

That the new managing editor rose from the publication’s “soft” news sections to a leadership position is more of a landmark in the industry than her being a woman.

(A) her being a woman

(B) being a woman is

(C) her womanhood

(D) that she was a woman（E）

(E) that she is a woman

这个比较that she is a woman 是和哪一部分对称呢?

谢谢!

laipiyu

12,是三个in which定语从句的并列,非常平行工整。

make do是凑合着使用的意思。make do without就是在没有...的情况下凑合着使用。这个不要懒,查字典就知道的。

longman的解释是:

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        make doto manage with the things that you have, even though this is not really enough:

I hardly had any food in the house so I just had to make do.

make do with/without
            

I usually make do with a cup of coffee for breakfast.

For many people,
                    make do and mend (=when someone manages with the things they have and does not buy anything new)
                was a harsh reality.

第3题，两个that从句的比较。