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题库 / Prep2008E2-SC-232
Although the restaurant company has recently added many new restaurants across the country and its sales have increased dramatically, its sales at restaurants open for more than a year have declined.
the restaurant company has recently added many new restaurants across the country and its sales have increased dramatically, its
the restaurant company has recently added many new restaurants across the country and its sales increased dramatically, its
many new restaurants have recently been opened across the country and its sales increased dramatically, the restaurant company's
having recently added many new restaurants across the country and with its sales increasing dramatically, the restaurant company's
recently adding many new restaurants across the country and having its sales increase dramatically, the restaurant company's
• B：(b) contains bad parallelism. since you're talking about two trends that have taken place simultaneously, you MUST use the same verb tense to describe those trends.
in (b), the first verb (has ... added) is in the present perfect, but the second (increased) is in the simple past. the parallelism in (a) is perfect: both verbs (has ... added and have ... increased) are presented in the same tense.
• C：many new restaurants have recently been opened across the country and...
in this construction, there is no indication that these new restaurants have been opened by the company in question. it just says that they have recently been opened, but not by whom. that's an unacceptable shift of meaning.
• D&E：these choices are both wrong for one of the most common (and therefore important) reasons you'll encounter: the initial modifier modifies the wrong noun. both of these choices modify "the restaurant company's sales". they should be modifying "the restaurant company".
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