搜了很长时间，但是仍然没搞懂，请nn们帮忙解说下

crystal2859

23. GWD26-Q23

Trans World Entertainment Corporation, which owns the Record Town

and Saturday Matinee retail chains, announced that since sales of up to one-fourth of its stores are poor, they will be closed.




A.     that since sales of up to one-fourth of its stores are poor, they will be closed.

B.     it is closing up to one-fourth of its stores, which accounted for its poor sales

C.    it was closing up to one fourth of its stores because of poor sales.

D.     to be closing, on account of poor sales, up to one-fourth of its stores.

E.     having poor sales, such that up to one-fourth of its stores will be closed.

为啥announced后面的that可以不见了呢

mostovoi

是不是选c啊

crystal2859

是选C啊 那个that可是省略吗

还有定语从句中关系代词做宾语的可以省略吗

xz328

应该是C。A肯定错的。因为they

理论上不应该省，但是这道题目没有别的可以选，所以就选C啦

chantelle

Gprep collects its Qs from the likes of NYT, The Economist
related source:http://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/08/business/company-briefs-029980.html
year-1996
TRANS WORLD ENTERTAINMENT CORP., Albany, which owns the Record Town and Saturday Matinee retail chains, announced that it was closing up to one-fourth of its stores because of poor sales. The company closed 180 stores last year.


someone at BTG says

announced can be used without that.
Read this http://www.thefreedictionary.com/announce:
EX: snowdrops announced the arrival of spring

Hope that helps!!

ringring

A是肯定錯的，

後面的主語應該是stores，所以當出現主語 加 to do 的時候，優先選形式主語it結構。

個人愚見，僅供參考

tobytracy

A.     that since sales of up to one-fourth of its stores are poor, they will be closed.

B.     it is closing up to one-fourth of its stores, which accounted for its poor sales

C.    it was closing up to one fourth of its stores because of poor sales.

D.     to be closing, on account of poor sales, up to one-fourth of its stores.

E.     having poor sales, such that up to one-fourth of its stores will be closed.

我不是NN。。可是我觉得。。时态不对排除ABE， cd比。。明显C比D正常。。选C