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The Sports Medicine Programs of the Olympic Training Center, a complex where final tryouts are held for athletes representing the United States in the Olympics, is geared toward enhancing athletes' performance and toward their preparation for international competition.

(A) is geared toward enhancing athletes' performance and toward their preparation
(B) is geared to enhance the performance of athletes and to prepare them
(C) are geared to enhance athletes' performance and their preparation
(D) are geared toward the enhancement of athletes' performance and toward preparing them
(E) are geared toward enhancing the performance of athletes and preparing them

两个问题
1、我觉得应该用单数is啊~~为何用了are？     a complex ，这算复数吗？
2、是不是gear to和 gear toward 都可以？

merryrq0209

The Sports Medicine Programs…… are geared toward enhancing athletes……                       把中间的插入语去掉，就是这样了。都programs了，都pl，还可能用is么

rx_11

The Sports Medicine Programs…… are geared toward enhancing athletes……                       把中间的插入语去掉，就是这样了。都programs了，都pl，还可能用is么

-- by 会员 merryrq0209 (2010/7/19 20:20:31)

中间那个不是插入语啊··是个同位语啊！
你解释一下为何同位语前后两个词单复数不一致？、

况且The Sports Medicine Programs 完全有可能只是某本书或者项目名字而已，加了S不一定就是复数啊！！

我是想问，集合名词complex加了个a 也得用复数吗？？

manmanman

本题是选C吗