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轻松1111

Efforts to equalize the funds available to school districts, a major goal of education reformers and many states in the 1970’s, has not significantly reduced the gaps existing
        between the richest and poorest districts.

(A) has not significantly reduced the gaps existing

(B) has not been significant in reducing the gap that exists

(C) has not made a significant reduction in the gap that exists

(D) have not significantly reduced the gap that exists

(E) have not been significant in a reduction of the gaps existing

答案选D，解释里只是强调了主谓一致的问题，一个efforts排除了ABC。

我的问题是：existing，有问题吗？existing 是不是有修饰efforts的歧义呢？

先谢谢了。

stellachan

个人拙见

我认为不会

existing紧跟着gaps   而且efforts和exist搭配很奇怪。。 

[此贴子已经被作者于2009-6-12 6:49:57编辑过]

strawdog

existing表示现有的，而文章中exist是表示存在，本身就是一个延续性动词，不能用ing形式

轻松1111

谢谢strawdog，是不是说existing在这里是形容词，放在名词后面修饰？

我错以为是existing是现在分词，老是搞不清楚。汗。。。

msuzengli

补充一下,这题D和E的区别更多在于简洁度和清晰度.

用significantly reduced比been significant in a reduction of要简洁;

另外that exist的修饰对象比existing要清晰.

轻松1111

对于楼上的看法，有点不太认同，以下是我的理解，请指教:

significantly reduce 与 been significant in a reduction of 在意思上就不一样吧

significantly reduce 意思是：大规模的减少（中心动词词是reduce）

been significant in a reduction of 意思是：在减少的过程中扮演了很重要的角色 （中心动词是been）

愚见