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。
Take away:英语语法规定,当谓语动词的意思是“建议、命令、要求”时,由于身后的从句中的谓语动词必须用原型(通常需要省略should)。
Split#1:选项B中 were doing 时态错误,去掉。选项D中,for不对,应该为as,去掉。
Split#2:选项A和E对比,E用了倒装,没必要,去掉选项E
Split#3:选项对比,一个reform prisoners一个reform them,指代不清,去掉选项A
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