求助

meckychen

Prospecting for gold during the California gold rush was a relatively easy task, because of erosion, prehistoric glacier movement, and ancient, gold-bearing riverbeds thrust to the surface by volcanic activity put gold literally within reach for anybody with a pan or shovel.



A.   because of erosion, prehistoric glacier movement, and ancient, gold-bearing riverbeds thrust to the surface by volcanic activity put gold literally within reach for

B.    because of erosion, prehistoric glacier movement, and volcanic activity that thrust ancient, gold-bearing riverbeds to the surface, and putting gold literally within reach of

C.   owing to erosion, prehistoric glacier movement, and volcanic activity that had thrust ancient, gold-bearing riverbeds to the surface, and putting gold literally within reach of

D.   since erosion, prehistoric glacier movement, and volcanic activity that thrust ancient, gold-bearing riverbeds to the surface, putting gold literally within reach for

E.    since erosion, prehistoric glacier movement, and ancient, gold-bearing riverbeds thrust to the surface by volcanic activity put gold literally within reach of

Answer: E可以帮我分析一下吗？

zanyingsan

看原句ancient也是thrust的执行者的定语，所以但看这一点就可以排除BCD，另外，because of后面通常情况下只跟简单的名词，这里A后面是个句子，错误。
owing to跟because of用法相似，后面也是借名词，所以这里也错。并且C选项还无故改变时态，也错。
最后，reach for和reach of也有区别，
reach for是伸手抓
reach of 是在什么附近。
看这个句子的逻辑意思，在加州的探金热中探金是个很容易的活，因为史前的腐蚀的冰川移动了，并且古代的金矿因为火山活动延伸到了地面使得金矿reach of每个人附近。（翻译的不好凑活看吧）