大家看看，这题选哪一个比较好？

songlei

145. Many environmentalists, and some economists, say that free trade encourages industry to relocate to countries with ineffective or poorly enforced antipollution laws, mostly in the developing world, and that, in order to maintain competitiveness, rich nations have joined this downward slide toward more lax attitudes about pollution.

A. that, in order to maintain competitiveness, rich nations have joined this downward slide toward more lax attitudes about pollution

B. that, for maintaining competitiveness, rich nations join in this downward slide toward more lax attitudes about pollution

C. that rich nations join this downward slide toward more lax attitudes about pollution because of wanting to maintain competitiveness

D. that in rich nations, joining this downward slide toward more lax attitudes about pollution is a result of wanting to maintain competition

E. that wanting to maintain competition is making rich nations join in this downward slide toward an attitude about pollution that is more lax

A中，in order to 前面的逗号怎么解释？
B中，for maintaining 前面的逗号怎么解释？
时态问题可以理解，用have done表示“已经”，没有问题；
表示目的时，用in order to 和用for，怎么判断？还可以用want to do吗？
C中，because of 后面接doing不对；
D和E中，competition做竞争讲，二competitiveness，做竞争力讲，不能替换！


同志们，有何高见！

nemiah

此题选A？

perain

应该选A吧。。。感觉用完成时更好。

smileGMAT1

1.A 中的 in order to maintian competitiveness是插入语，因此in order 前有逗号。

2.B is the same condition as A;
   in order to 更符合习惯，want to do 来修饰nations 很别扭，但不能说不对。

smileGMAT1

其实 E 将原文的语义颠倒。原文强调了 nations have jioned the slide .而E 说 wanting to maintain is making nations jion. 即 passive voice is awkward.

另外that 有歧义

shellin

再顶楼主!借题问时态问题 A选项的完成时态如何解释?

MiaZhang

这个题从语义上理解吧。。。
in order to 表目的，for表目的都不对，除非后面加名词，表示为了。。。
时态问题也从语义上理解：have joined 表示一种已经加入的状态
对比B，join，是要加入还是在加入还是已经加入？不清楚

because of后面加直接原因，如果出现becase of doing/sb doing/sb's doing，最好都换成because