讨论一道题

夏雨霏霏

3. A discussion of our nation’s foreign policy must begin with the fact of there being an independent Western Europe which now thinks of itself in trans-nationalist terms.

(A) A discussion of our nation’s foreign policy must begin with the fact of there being

(B) Beginning any discussion of our nation’s foreign policy must be the fact of there being

(C) Any discussion of our nation’s foreign policy must begin with the fact that there is（这个哪里错啊）

(D) Any discussion of our nation’s foreign policy must begin by acknowledging the existence of

(E) To begin discussing our nation’s foreign policy thee must be an acknowledgment of the fact that

正确答案为D

MINOZ芸

我觉得最主要要从语义来看，任何关于我们国家foreign policy的讨论一定要从承认...存在的事实开始，而不是说任何讨论都要从一个事实开始。
再者，C选项的表达很wordy，begin with the fact that there is这一表达不能使意思表达的更清楚，反而使句子变得非常冗长。。。

还有一点，begin with一般是用于表达XXX是什么什么的first part，就像“The movement began with a protest", protest是这个movement的第一部分。
原文，并不是在说这个fact是discussion的第一部分，承认这个fact才是。

M猫Fishoo

看了一下外国论坛, 说既然是fact, 就不需要讨论了

应该是 discussion begin with a statement

觉得蛮有道理