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The cathedrals of the Middle Ages were community centers just as much as they were purely religious edifices; and they were structures that represented a city’s commitment to a public realm, the opposite of being a private one.
community centers just as much as they were purely religious edifices; and they were structures that represented a city’s commitment to a public realm, the opposite of being a private one
community centers as much as purely religious edifices; they were structures representing a city’ s commitment to a public realm, as opposed to private
community centers as well as purely religious edifices; they were structures that represented a city’s commitment to a public realm, not private ones
as much community centers as purely religious edifices, structures that represented a city’s commitment to a public realm, as opposed to a private one
as much community centers as they were purely religious edifices, structures representing a city’s commitment to a public realm, opposite of a private one
以上是曼哈顿解析
不太明白解析中提到的they指代不清的问题，这里they不是指代cathedral吗？
D. Correct. This choice avoids using a pronoun with no clear referent and
correctly expresses the comparison between a public realm, as opposed to
a private one, where both noun phrases are singular.
E. This choice uses opposite of a private one to refer to a public realm,
unreasonably suggesting that a public realm cannot coexist with a private
realm.
In this choice, the referent of the pronoun they is unclear. Furthermore,
the phrase as opposed to private is misplaced; it would be correct if placed
immediately before realm.
C. In this choice, the plural phrase not private ones refers to the singular a
public realm.
这里的意思是commitment to a public as opposed to private realm，这样是对滴。
they指代不明的情况确实存在，是指就近的religious edifices，还是包含了community centers?还是指cathedrals?
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The given sentence conveys the idea that the medieval cathedrals were
community centers as well as religious edifices. Therefore, these cathedrals
represented cities' commitment to a public realm.
排除法优选D
这道题如果排除they的指代不清后就只剩下D了
考察：
代词；as much as； 完整性；
前： as much as差不多；as much community centers as purely religious edifices
中： they were structures that还是structures that；they指代不明确，看到有选项替换了they，就要警惕并且排除they的选项；排除abc
后：opposite of表示相反的，as opposed to表示与。。对照相反；应该是a private one与前面的a public realm对立；
e：as much as介词短语后应该加名词，不应该加句子，e错；
a；and 连词不应该用分号；and引导两个独立并列句子；用分号不应该用and；
A选项：and错误/the opposite of being a private one错误，首先being无意义，同时如果用the opposite做上句的同位语这里也不行，因为这里的关系不是一个of能说清的，要用一个句子，这里也没有什么of的逻辑关系...
B选项：they指代不明确，同时private是一个形容词，后面要接one
C选项：错太多了
E选项：第二个as后的they were没有任何意义来了，因为对比的就是两个名词...就像he has as many apples as (he has) pears一样/structures同位语后应该用that而不是doing因为会产生歧义以为是独立主格结构/OPPOSITE OF错误
个人理解，这道题一定要读懂语义。
D选项里的structure说代表一个城市对公众领域（王国）的承诺（相对于私人领域），但是前半句community centers和 purely religious edifices的关系是as much as【as much as表示其连接的两者在程度上是相同的（程度的比较）】，这里有暗示两者其实是完全截然相反的，有对立。
那么其他选项用了they were 就不是特别贴切了，一是有代词的ambiguity，二是直接把二者都包进去了，体现不出对立。
所以在此题中，structure that一句做同位语直接修饰purely religious edifices是make sense的
句中的as opposed to 也有进一步体现community centers和 purely religious edifices有对立关系。
感觉这个题还有难度的。
ABC有代词指代不清的嫌疑，根据句意they指代the cathedrals of Middle Age, 但是这里也可能指代edifices；同样they are structures忽略掉修饰部分，这个主句部分语义不对；
E的问题在于they are的出现。这里其实不需要，因为这里是说这种大教堂作为社交中心和作为纯粹宗教建筑这种使用功能的程度相当。
as much ... as
not so much ... as
as opposed to 与……对照，与……截然相反