102. Except for a concert performance that the composer himself staged in 1911, Scott Joplin's ragtime opera Treemonisha was not produced until 1972, sixty-one years after its completion.
(A)Except for a concert performance that the composer himself staged
(B)Except for a concert performance with the composer himself staging it
(C)Besides a concert performance being staged by the composer himself
(D)Excepting a concert performance that the composer himself staged
(E)With the exception of a concert performance with the staging done by the composer himself
Choice A is best. In B, the participle staging inappropriately expresses ongoing rather than completed action, and the prepositional phrase containing this participle (with... it) is unidiomatic. Likewise, C uses the participle being inappropriately. In D, the use of Excepting in place of the preposition Except for is unidiomatic. Choice E is awkward and wordy.
OG 說明 staging應改為staged以表達完成的動作 , 但若我從分詞主被動的觀念來判讀, 這個performance 由他自己主動staging, 是不是也說得通呢?
請戰友們解惑, 先謝囉