跪求版主NN们看下，关于代词先于指代对象出现

sheryter

知道有一个知识点，在修饰语/从句+主句的这样的形式中，代词是可以先于被指代的对象先出现在修饰语或从句中的。但是是否代词只能指代主句中主语有疑惑：

这里有个反例：
37.   Seeming to be the only organization fighting for the rights of poor people in the South, Hosea Hudson, a laborer in Alabama, joined the Communist party in 1931.

(A) Seeming to be
(B) As
(C) In that they seemed
(D) Since it seemed seem（E）
(E) Because it seemed to be

这里的it就指向了Communist part，主句的宾语。

假如前面从句代词可以指代主句非主语，那么再请看OG12-67:
67.       Affording strategic proximity to the Strait of Gibraltar, Morocco was also of interest to the French throughout the first half of the twentieth century because they assumed that if they did not hold it, their grip on Algeria was always insecure.

(A) if they did not hold it, their grip on Algeria was always insecure
(B) without it their grip on Algeria would never be secure
(C) their grip on Algeria was not ever secure if they did not hold it
(D) without that, they could never be secure about their grip on Algeria（B）
(E) never would their grip on Algeria be secure if they did not hold it

OG解释说C,E有指代歧义。但基于前面的论点，我认为B里的it也可以指代Algeria，不也有歧义了吗？

另外想多问一句，代词先于指代对象出现是不是就只有initial modifier这一种情况？

sheryter

我顶！

wellsli

第一题答案 是E还是D。。。然后下次记得弄上下划线吧... 亲...不然好难找啊

然后我自己的看法是：第一题it不能指代人，所以只能指代party，就别纠结了吧...
我也等大牛的说法，解释一下这个指代的知识点 = =

第二题 这里并不是你说的那种“修饰语/从句，SVO”
首先未划线部分的that后是一整句话：
without it their grip on Algeria would never be secure   ——it在algeria之前  不会指代
如果还原成： their grip on Algeria would never be secure without it 那it就和CE一样可能指代algeria了  因此才把without it放前面
其次，这题从逻辑意思上理解，it肯定也不会指代A的

我是这样想的...