The Eastern State Penitentiary was established in 1822 by reformers advocating that prisoners be held in solitary confinement and hard labor so as to reform them.
advocating that prisoners be held in solitary confinement and hard labor so as to reform them
who were advocating prisoners to be held in solitary confinement and hard labor for their reform
advocating solitary confinement and hard labor as the means to reform prisoners
who advocated solitary confinement and hard labor for the means of prisoner reform
advocating as the means for prisoner reform solitary confinement and hard labor
题目分析:
选项分析:
A选项:advocating为reformers的后置定语,现在分词形式表主动。that引导了advocate的宾语从句,意为“改革家拥护一件事”,什么事呢,罪犯应该“be held in solitary confinement and (be held in) hard labor”。
我们知道,一句话中的核心词为这句话的谓语动词,那么此时改革者拥护的就是“be held”,即“被关”这个动作。但逻辑上他们拥护的应该是“solitary confinement 和 hard labor”这两个东西。
B选项:此时被拥护的是prisoners,错误同A。
C选项:正确。字面意思为“拥护单独监禁和劳役作为改造罪犯的方法”。
D选项:for the means of用法错误。此时字面意思为“拥护单独监禁和劳役为了罪犯改造的方法”。
E选项:此选项将advocate的宾语置于宾补之后,还原为“advocate confinement and hard labor as the means for prisoner reform.”。这种将宾语放在宾补之后的倒装在GMAT中是常见的,一般是因为和宾补相比,宾语过长,为了避免认不出宾补,会将宾语置后。但在此选项中,与C相比,这一倒装完全没有必要。所以,相比之下,排除E。
请问e 的问题出在哪了?虽然读起来很怪
不定式和名词的区别。means后面接不定式更合理,根据未画线部分的背景得知,改造犯人的方式是还处于被维新派提出的阶段,所以提出建议的内容是还没有发生的,而as the means for prisoner reform本来应该表达一个已经存在的改造方式,显然不符合题目前提。
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