A本身没错，但并不是作者反驳的地方，journalist看real GDP per capita，但作者认为应该关注growth rate of real GDP per capita
B journalist并没有提到growth rate
C journalist 没提到productivity
D高估的不是amount而应该是growth rate
E. Is correct because it is telling use that Journalist failed to consider historical evidence about US economy.
"Some journalists have argued that the United States economy performed ideally in 1997. However, the real GDP is almost always higher than ever before; it falls only during recessions. One point these journalists overlooked is that in 1997, as in the twenty-four years immediately preceding it...."这些记者忽略的一点是，1997年和之前的24年一样，实际人均GDP每年的增长速度比1873年至1973年的平均速度慢了近一半。如果1997年的经济真如人们所说的那样强劲，那么1997年的实际人均GDP增长率就会超过1873年至1973年的实际人均GDP平均增长率
AC. their 错误
BDE：例子
[1] The committee chose Mr. Smith of Left Block, who was the most experienced member, to lead all the management-related operations.
Many of you will right away discard this sentence as “incorrect” because “who” is not preceded by “Mr. Smith”, the noun it should logically refer to. Well, this sentence is absolutely correct. There is no modification error here. Here “who” correctly modifies “Mr. Smith”.
This is so because the newly added prepositional phrase “of Left Block” is a modifier that modifies “Mr. Smith”. So it is placed next to that entity. This prepositional cannot be placed elsewhere in the sentence without violating the structure and the meaning of the sentence. So now instead of just “Mr. Smith” in sentence 1, we have a “noun phrase” in sentence 2 – “Mr. Smith of Left Block”. In this scenario, “who” has the liberty to jump over the preceding preposition phrase (modifier) to modify the HEAD of this noun phrase – “Mr. Smith”
and
[2] The committee chose Mr. Smith in the last meeting, who was the most experienced member, to lead all the management-related operations.
However, the sentence [2] is not correct. Here “who” ends up modifying immediately preceding noun “the last meeting”, resulting in modifier error.
This is so because “in the last meeting” does not modify “Mr. Smith” because it is an adverbial modifier and hence cannot modify a Noun. It rather modifies the action “chose”. When did the committee choose? It did in the last meeting. This prepositional phrase can actually be placed right in the beginning of the sentence, after “The committee”, or before “Mr. Smith” to convey the intended meaning. Hence, here “who” cannot jump over the preceding noun. Notice how per the context of this sentence, the expression “Mr. Smith in the last meeting” is not a noun phrase. Contrast this with the noun phrase in the original sentence “Mr. Smith of Left Block”.
若介宾短语修饰前面的名词，则which/who可以跳跃修饰前面的名词，但例子2中的“in the last meeting”和BD中的in the country一样，虽是介宾短语但不修饰前面的名词，故不能跳跃修饰
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