OG(VR)#70

[stellaadixen]

Faced with an estimated $2 billion budge gap, the city's mayor proposed a nearly 17 percent reducetion in the amount allocated the previous year to maintain the city's major culture insitutions and to subsidize hundreds of local arts groups.



(D) has proposed a reduction from the previous year of nearly 17 percent of the amount it was allocating for maintain the city's major cultural institutions , and to subsidize.

(E)was proposing that the amount they were allocating be reduced by 17 percent from the previous year for maintaining the city's major cultural institutions and for the subsidization.

原文的句子是對的.我也答對.但是(d) (e) 這兩個選項都沒有parallel.而且也有unclear antecedent的問題.只是我不懂為什麼ets的詳解裡提到這兩個選項都有" unclear whether one activity budget is being reduced to maintaion ot subsidize the other activity? 如何得知？？請大大們幫幫忙

[alva0930]

Faced with an estimated $2 billion budget gap, the city’s mayor proposed a nearly 17 percent reduction in the amount allocated the previous year to maintain the city’s major cultural institutions and to subsidize hundreds of local arts groups.
(A) proposed a nearly 17 percent reduction in the amount allocated the previous year to maintain the city’s major cultural institutions and to subsidize
(B) proposed a reduction from the previous year of nearly 17 percent in the amount it was allocating to maintain the city’s major cultural institutions and for subsidizing
(C) proposed to reduce, by nearly 17 percent, the amount from the previous year that was allocated for the maintenance of the city’s major cultural institutions and to subsidize
(D) has proposed a reduction from the previous year of nearly 17 percent of the amount it was allocating for maintaining the city’s major cultural institutions, and to subsidize
(E) was proposing that the amount they were allocating be reduced by nearly 17 percent from the previous year for maintaining the city’s major cultural institutions and for the subsidization

補上原題全部選項。

雖然這題我也作對了，不過我也有同樣的問題，有人可以解釋一下嗎，為什麼只有(D)與(E)有這樣的問題：
unclear whether one activity’s budget is being reduced to maintain or subsidize the other activity

另外，其實我在做這一題的時侯，看到(D)與(E)用完成式與過去進行式覺得怪怪的就把它們消去了，可是ＯＧ的解釋卻沒提到(D)與(E)有時態問題，大家不會覺得用簡單過去式比較好嗎？

[dibert8]

這題考: 1. 平衡, 2. to-V vs for 片語各修飾誰
(A) to maintain... and to subsidize... 的主詞是 mayor 沒有問題
(B) to maintain... and for subsidizing 不平衡
(C) to reduce... and to subsidize 可能是改變句意吧! 句意是挖東牆 (cultural institutions) 的預算去補西牆 (local arts groups), be allocated for 說明預算原是給 cultural institutions 的.
(D) for maintaining 可能修飾 allocating, 也可能修飾 proposed , 所以不知是要削 cultural institutions 的預算去貼 local arts groups (前者), 還是削預算為兩者(後者)
(E) 同 (D), 更不清楚了.意思有可能把 cultural institutions 跟 local arts groups 的預算都一起刪了.