OG的第56题

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56. Architects and stonemasons, huge palace and temple clusters were built by the Maya without benefit of the wheel or animal transport.fficeffice" />

(A)     huge palace and temple clusters were built by the Maya without benefit of the wheel or animal transport

(B)         without the benefits of animal transport or the wheel, huge palace and temple clusters were built by the Maya

(C)     the Maya built huge palace and temple clusters without the benefit of animal transport or the wheel

(D)     there were built, without the benefit of the wheel or animal transport, huge palace and temple clusters by the Maya

(E)         were the Maya who, without the benefit of the wheel or animal transport, built huge palace and temple clusters

A, B, and D illogically suggest that the palace and temple clusters were architects and stonemasons. For the modification to be logical. Architects and stonemasons must immediately precede the Maya, the noun phrase it is meant to modify. A, B, and D also use the passive verb form were built, which produces unnecessary awkwardness and wordiness. E is awkwardly phrased and produces a sentence fragment, because the appositive noun phrase Architects and stonemasons cannot serve as the subject of were the Maya. C, the best answer, places the Maya immediately after its modifier and uses the active verb form built.

我觉得E也对。答案里的D中the Maya 与Architects and stonemasons之间应该怎样解释？请大侠们指点一二。

maotian

E改变句意了，变成Architects and stonemasons就是the Maya 了，而C中，the Maya 是Architects and stonemasons的同位语，指的是the Maya 是Architects and stonemasons。


同时，E改变句子的重心了。

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o , 同位语。我没想到这方面来，谢谢大侠！我老觉得E中的是倒装。（更正一下，一楼应该是说答案C是正确答案）