[求助]885-18-19

zoutongguang

19.   In spite of federal subsidizing of public transportation systems massively and major local efforts to persuade the public to use public transportation, mass transit has been steadily losing patronage to the private automobile for the past thirty years.

(A) In spite of federal subsidizing of public transportation systems massively and major local efforts to persuade

(B) In spite of massive federal subsidizing of public transportation systems and major efforts locally at persuading

(C) Despite massive federal subsidies to public transportation systems and the making of major efforts locally to persuade

(D) Despite massive federal subsidies to public transportation systems and major local efforts to persuade（D）

(E) Despite massive federal subsidies to public transportation systems and making major local efforts at persuading

答案D，我选择C，错哪里？in spite of 和despite后面各接什么，怎么用？

cdinitialb

in spite of 和despite后面加名词作宾语，C选项的表达后半部分redundant而且awkward（the making of major efforts locally），locally也没有修饰的对象，因为adv只能修饰动词。平行成分也没有d选项的好。

zoutongguang

谢谢，像这题一看到三个in spite of 和两个despite能够直接判断despite吗，依据什么判断？