OG11th 60 未划线部分的一个疑问

zxkingsey

60.   More and more in recent years, cities are stressing the arts as a means to greater economic development and investing millions of dollars in cultural activities, despite strained municipal budgets and fading federal support.

(A)         to greater economic development and investing

(B)         to greater development economically and investing

(C)         of greater economic development and invest

(D)        of greater development economically and invest  A

(E)         for greater economic development and the investment of

strained municipal budgets 是 adj + adj + n ，而 fading federal support 是 n + adj + n,不是不对称吗？我查longman没有查到fading的解释，Google出来的结果是名词，也找到了一些句子：
In wireless communications, fading is deviation of the attenuation that a carrier-modulated telecommunication signal experiences over certain propagation media.

实在是迷惘  

还有就是,so that在一定情况下前面是可以加逗号的,没错吧?

ferric

可理解为分词结构的平行

zxkingsey

可理解为分词结构的平行

-- by 会员 ferric (2010/2/25 23:42:42)

我想过,但我觉得不对
过去被动对主动进行,这里没有有表示主动与被动的任何提示,而且strained本身就是一个形容词