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703The British sociologist and activist Barbara Wootton once noted as a humorous example of income maldistribution that the elephant that gave rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo was earning annually exactly what she then earned as director of adult education for London.
(A) that the elephant that gave rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo was earning
(B) that the elephant, giving rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo, had been earning
(C) that there was an elephant giving rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo, and it earned
(D) the elephant that gave rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo and was earning（A）
(E) the elephant giving rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo and that it earned
有两种情况可在名词前使用定冠词ＴＨＥ：1) 前面提到过这个名词; 2) 名词后使用限定性定语言从句-如本题
703, og-258
Choice A, the best answer, uses the idiomatic construction noted... that and clearly focuses on the salient information—a comparison of annual earnings. In B, the structure of noted... that the elephant, giving rides..., had been earning falsely implies that the reader already knows about the elephant—that is, that the existence of this particular elephant is not new information. Also, the past perfect had been improperly places the elephant’s earning in the past, prior to Wootton’s; consistent verb tense is needed to show that the actions are simultaneous. Choice C may be faulted for distortion of meaning and diminished clarity because it suggests that the point of Wootton’s example was the elephant’s very existence; comparative earnings are presented (after and) as incidental detail. Choice D is awkward and inexact; the whole circumstance that Wootton “noted” is best expressed in a clause that begins with that. Choice E does not use the idiomatic construction noted that x; therefore, and that it earned has no parallel construction to which it can be joined.
我想知道：og对于C的解释是什么意思？C为什么错？
我觉得 用一般过去式比过去进行时好，大家认为呢？ | 
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