几道语法题求解，谢谢！

不甜

1，Darwin was not the
first to advance a theory of evolution; his tremendous originality lay in
the fact that he proposed the idea of natural selection as the means by
which evolution worked.
    

(A) lay in the
fact that he proposed the idea

    

(B) lay in the
fact of his proposing the idea

    

(C) laid in the
fact of his proposing the idea

    

(D) laid in his proposal（E）

    (E) lay in his proposal

我选的D, 但是正确答案是E! 始终没搞明白为什么不能用过去时态呢？？？

2，Modern critics are
amused by early scholars’ categorizing Tacitus’s Germania as an ethnographic treatise.

                

(A)
scholars’ categorizing Tacitus’s Germania as

                

(B) scholars’
categorizing Tacitus’s Germania as if

                

(C) scholars,
categorizing of Tacitus’s Germania as

                

(D) scholars who categorize Tacitus’s Germania as（A）

                

(E) scholars who
categorize Tacitus’s Germania if

为什么不能选择d项？？？

 

                
                
            

aeoluseros

1、lay是lie的过去式...相信你会很无语...

2、搞笑的不是scholar，而是scholar's categorizing ...这个行为。