求教GWD3-Q22

Sakana☆

GWD3-Q22:

On account of a law passed in 1993, making it a crime punishable by imprisonment that a United States citizen hold
gold in the form of bullion or coins, immigrants found that on arrival in the United States they had to surrender all of the gold they had brought with them.
A.On account of a law passed in 1993, making it a crime punishable by imprisonment that a United States
citizen hold
B.With a law passed in 1933 that makes it a crime punishable by imprisonment that a United States
citizen hold
C.A law passed in 1933 that made it a crime punishable by imprisonment for a United States
citizen holding
D.Because of a law passed in 1933 making it a crime punishable by imprisonment for a United States
citizen to hold
E.Due to a law being passed in 1933 that makes it a crime punishable by imprisonment for a United States
citizen to hold

B和D纠结半天选择了B，但是答案是D……求分析和理由……谢谢！

sdcar2010

B. With ...that ... that

Just aweful English.

泾渭不凡

A，making…:斜视分词，既可修饰前面又可修饰后面，夹心
B，a citizen hold
C，没有谓语
D is the best
E，because由于due to 2.涉及法律一般都用ing分词，关于E选项，偶记得OG中给出的官方解释是:due to =contribute to; ≠because or because of;因此在GMAT中，due to 一般都不会出现在句首的；且E中"a law being passed"中的being表达逻辑意思不正确,being更多表达状态，而这里的law早已在1933年就passed了；所以看到这两个关键点即可否决E；

ledazhou

Manhattan 官方网站解释的很好 (转载）

, b, c can all be eliminated because of improper idiomatic usage: the proper idiom is '...a crime for blah blah blah to hold...'
'with' in choice b is also bad: it seems to imply that immigrants arrived with the law in their hands.
choice c implies that the immigrants themselves are 'a law passed in 19xx' (analogy: 'an accomplished pianist, jay made a nice living playing at weddings' - jay is an accomplished pianist. same reading applies to this sentence, although it's considerably longer and more difficult to parse)

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i believe you've misconstrued our advice not to write 'because of V-ing', in exactly that form.
choice d doesn't do that: it writes 'because of a law', where 'a law' is definitely a noun. (the subsequent modifier 'making it a crime...' modifies 'law', and is not associated with 'because of')

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choice e changes the meaning of the sentence: taken literally, it says that the immigrants found themselves in this unenviable situation not because of the law itself, but because of the passage of the law. although somewhat plausible, this is not the intent of the original sentence.