急问天山新题－13题！！请nn进来！！

sting228

首先：OG178. In the last few years, the number of convicted criminals given community service sentences, which allow the criminals to remain unconfined while they perform specific jobs benefiting the public, have risen dramatically.

(A) sentences, which allow the criminals to remain unconfined while they perform specific jobs benefiting the public, have

(B) sentences, performing specific jobs that benefit the public while being allowed to remain unconfined, have

(C) sentences, performing specific jobs beneficial to the public while they are allowed to remain unconfined, have

(D) sentences which allow them to remain unconfined in their performing of specific jobs beneficial to the public has（E）

(E) sentences allowing them to remain unconfined while performing specific jobs that benefit the public has

At issue in this question is subject-verb agreement; the number... has risen must be the kernel of the main clause. Choice E, the best answer, uses a singular verb form, has, to agree with the singular subject, the number. Choices A, B, and C mistake criminals for the sentence subject and so incorrectly use the plural verb form have. In B and C the verb phrases (performing... ) do not clearly modify criminals, because another noun (sentences) intrudes

这说明,+doing分词可以修饰就近的N而不一定非要去掉comma。

其次，我认为, protecting the public.可以表示一种伴随状态的作用，应该可以作全句的状语。如

OG119. Executives and federal officials say that the use of crack and cocaine is growing rapidly among workers,

(B) significantly compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, which already cost business more than $100 billion a year.  这里的significantly compounding 和前面的主句就是一种伴随关系。

leeon

可以多参考分词做定语修饰名词正确的例子，一般来说要么是N+分词，或者N,分词，这里的N只有一个，没有其他的成分。可以参看这个帖子：http://forum.chasedream.com/dispbbs.asp?boardID=23&ID=21041&page=2讨论的非常精彩！

horsefish

E正确. By law 一起是个名词, 地方法规, 逻辑主语也对.

可是如果By law当介词短语的话, 觉得B正确啊, 请NN搭眼看看, 谢谢! 类似OG-39.

og- 39. For members of the seventeenth-century Ashanti nation in Africa, animal-hide shields with wooden frames were essential items of military equipment, a method to protect warriors against enemy arrows and spears.

(A)                a method to protect

(B)                as a method protecting

(C)                protecting

(D)                as a protection of

(E)                to protect

Choice C is best because the participle protecting begins a phrase that explains what the shields did. Choices A and B awkwardly use the singular word method to refer to items of military equipment rather than to the use of such items. Also, a method of protecting would be more idiomatic than a method to protect in A or a method protecting in B. In B and D, as is incorrect; also, a protection in D has no noun for which it can logically substitute. Choice E is incomplete; used to protect would have been acceptable.

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