public employment, relief, and social security were in large measure what they had been responsible for
in large measure的意思是“在很大程度上”。在逻辑上,不是社会安全等在很多程度上负责,而是这两个女性在很大程度上负责社会安全。因此,必须用two women做were in large measure的主语。
Geologists therefore wondered whether the friction between the plates was being reduced by pockets of pressurized water within the fault that push the plates away from each other
错选c,same rate不对,太绝对了,只要增长就可以,不用same rate