请教：gwd16--18 和 gwd16--23 和 gwd16--30

zonaw

先谢谢各位啦！！

gwd16--18
Unlike most other mergers in the utilityindustry, which have been driven by the need to save money and extendcompanies’ service areas, the merger of the nation’s leading gas andelectric company is intended to create a huge marketing network for theutilities in question with states opening their utility markets tocompetition.

A. and  electric company is     intended to create a huge marketing network for the utilities in question with states opening
B. and electric companies are intended to create a huge network for marketing the utilities in question as states open
C. and electric companies are intended to create a huge network that will be marketing the utilities in question, with states opening
D. company and electric company are intending to create a huge marketing network for the utilities in question, with states opening
E. company and leading electric company is intended to create a huge network for marketing the utilities in question as states open

BCD可以排除，答案是E，可是E很罗嗦诶，我选的A

而且gas andelectric company和gas company and leading electric company意思不一样的吧，这样不是改原文了吗？？





gwd16--23

Antarctica receives more solar radiationthan does any other place on Earth, yet the temperatures are so cold and theice cap is reflective, so that little polar ice melts during the summer;otherwise, the water levels of the oceans would rise 250 feet and engulfmost of the world’s great cities.

A. is reflective, so that little polar ice melts during the summer; otherwise,
B. is so reflective that little of the polar ice melts during the summer; were it to do so,
C. so reflective that little polar ice melts during the summer, or else
D. reflective, so that little of the polar ice melts during the summer, or
E. reflects so that little of the polar ice melts during the summer; if it did

答案选B， 我选C
B的it难道没有指代问题吗？


GWD16--30

Emily Dickinson’s letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, outnumbering her letters to anyone else.


A.Dickinson were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, outnumbering
       
B.Dickinsonwere written over a period that begins a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and ended shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, outnumber

C. Dickinson, written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and that ends shortly before Emily’s death in 1886and outnumbering

D. Dickinson, which were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother, ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, and outnumbering

E. Dickinson, which were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, outnumber

答案是E！为什么为什么为什么呢！PREP上对which的位置是很严格的呀，基本没看到有例外。A虽然outnumbering有点怪，但我觉得没E严重诶。。。

zonaw

谢谢~~