补充材料的难题, 请教高手

delldell

The attorney turned down the law firm's offer of a position because she suspected that it was meant merely to fill an affirmative action quota with no commitment to minority hiring and eventually promoting.
D Quota and did not reflect a commitment to minority hiring and eventual promotion
E Quota, not reflecting a commitment to minority hiring and eventual promotion

E用分词做伴随怎么不行啊?

Most Corporations at least twice as much to full-time employees, if the value of benefits, sick days, and paid vacation days are included in earnings, than to part time employees, whose hourly wages are often higher than those of their full-time colleagues.

A are included in earnings, as
E is included in earnings, as they pay
看蒙了, 谁能给分析一下?

The brain is something of a stimulus reduction system, a means to reduce, in order to comprehend, the nearly infinite amount of stimuli that reach the senses at any given moment.

B a means to reduce, in order to comprehend, the nearly infinite number

为什么选B, number怎么能修饰不可数名词呀? 难到stimuli 是谁的复数形式?

Energy

2)value is
3)stimulus

delldell

谁能解释一下第一题??

delldell

谁能解释一下第一题?

Energy

with不是修饰quota的

daidai11

第一题是并列关系，不是伴随

delldell

还有更有说服力的解释么?

halcyon

not reflecting a commitment to minority hiring and eventual promotion,
是不是有可能做主句 turned 或suspected 的伴随状语

delldell

我的问题是它能不能做was meant的伴随

halcyon

以下是引用halcyon在2004-1-27 23:41:00的发言：
not reflecting a commitment to minority hiring and eventual promotion,
是不是有可能做主句 turned 或suspected 的伴随状语

所以有歧义呀