Based on accounts of various ancient writers, scholars have painted a sketchy picture of the activities of an all-female cult that, perhaps as early as the sixth century B.C., worshipped a goddess known in Latin as Bona Dea, "the good goddess."
Based on accounts of various ancient writers, scholars have painted a sketchy picture of the activities of an all-female cult that, perhaps as early as the sixth century B.C., worshipped a goddess known in Latin as Bona Dea, "the good goddess."
(A) Based on accounts of various ancient writers, (B) Basing it on various ancient writers' accounts, (C) With accounts of various ancient writers used for a basis, (D) By the accounts of various ancient writers they used, (E) Using accounts of various ancient writers,
Correct Answer is (E), as you may alrady know.
here I have a qustion regards how I eliminate answer choice (C) and (D)
(C)的used for a basis是个过去分词的modifiier, 我觉得可以就近修饰writers, 句意就很荒谬,所以排除了
(D)的they used也可以理解为they used ancient writers,也不符合原句意思,所以排除了。