In 1713, Alexander Pope began his translation of the Iliad, a work that, taking him seven years until completion, and that literary critic Samuel Johnson, Pope's contemporary, pronounced the greatest translation in any language.


his translation of the Iliad, a work that, taking him seven years until completion, and that literary critic Samuel Johnson, Pope's contemporary, pronounced

his translation of the Iliad, a work that took him seven years to complete and that literary critic Samuel Johnson, Pope's contemporary, pronounced

his translation of the Iliad, a work that had taken seven years to complete and that literary critic Samuel Johnson, Pope's contemporary, pronounced it as

translating the Iliad, a work that took seven years until completion and that literary critic Samuel Johnson, Pope's contemporary, pronounced it as

translating the Iliad, a work that had taken seven years to complete and literary critic Samuel Johnson, Pope's contemporary, pronounced it

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题目分析：
本题涉及到了许多考点，但答案选项相对容易找到，很多干扰选项可以通过基础语法点排除。

选项分析：

A选项： work的定语从句部分没有谓语动词。

B选项：Correct. 本选项在语法和逻辑上均是正确的。

C选项：pronounced it as中的代词it的指代对象a work，但是这样的指代在语法和逻辑上均是不正确的，由于that literary critic Samuel Johnson, Pope’s contemporary, pronounced the greatest translation in any language是work的定语从句，所以先行词work一定在这个从句中充当成分，应该充当pronounce的宾语，但在本选项中，若pronounce身后有it，则先行词无法在句中充当成分。

D选项：pronounce的宾语错误同(C)；另外，本选项中同位语 a work that...部分只能修饰名词lliad，而不能修饰translating the lliad。这是因为，动名词表达的是一种“过程”，通常在句中没有明确的时间终点，例如：

(1) Exploring the cave is taking a long time.
(2) The exploration of the cave took three days.

句(1)和句(2)均是正确的，且explore部分不能相互替换。这是因为，句(1)中，我们完全看不到“探索山洞”这件事的终止点，只是知道已经花了很长的时间了，可能还将继续花很长的时间；句(2)中，主句部分已经用过去时表明“花费了3天”，由此可知，“探索山洞”这件事已经完结了，具备明确的时间终点。
同理，本题中，由于a work这个同位语中讲的是took him seven years to complete (took seven years until completion)，所以“翻译伊利亚特（translate the lliad）”这个事件必然已经完结，具备明确的时间终点，只能用名词短语translation of the Iliad表示。（考查的是名词和ing的区别）

E选项：pronounce的宾语错误同(C)；translating the lliad错误同(D)。

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