OG240

xionghuixh

240. What brought the automobile company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War was a special, governmentally sanctioned price increase allowed during a period of wage and price controls.

(A)            What brought

(B)            The thing that brought

(C)            That which brought

(D)            Bringing

(E)            What has brought

Choice A is best. The verb tense is correct and the pronoun what refers most concisely and idiomatically to the noun increase. It may help to imagine a simplified version of the sentence and substitute the other answer choices for "The price increase was what brought..." Both B and C are unnecessar­ily wordy, and C is awkward and unidiomatic. Both D and E are faulty in tense; Bringing suggests an ongoing condition and is incompatible with an action that was completed shortly after the Second World War. Similarly, has brought indicates action that continues up to the present; the past tense brought is needed to parallel was.

1.

这句话the past tense brought is needed to parallel was.

怎么理解?

主从句之间也要parallel???总觉得E似乎也对?

[此贴子已经被作者于2004-10-12 14:25:29编辑过]

zqwei

1.主从是有一致的要求的，时态的核心就是表示动作发生的时间.

2.时态问题的关键是找到明显的时间状语.
对于E答案中的after 短语是不能做现在完成时的证据的.
常与完成时态搭配的状语有(LZM):just,already,yet,ever,never,for two years,since 1973,in the last decade,in the past ten years,recently

eSpirit

我觉得这里为什么强调主从一致是因为在正常语序中这两个动词的发生时间是同一的。请看：A special, governmentally sanctioned price increase allowed during a period of wage and price controls brought the automobile company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War 。原句只是为了强调说明是这个price。