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The computer company reported strong second-quarter earnings that surpassed Wall

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问题 The computer company reported strong second-quarter earnings that surpassed Wall Street’s estimates and announced the first in a series of price cuts intended to increase sales further.
选项 A、The computer company reported strong second-quarter earnings that surpassed Wall Street’s estimates and announced the first in a series of price cuts intended to increase sales further
B、The report of the computer company showed strong second-quarter earnings, surpassing Wall Street’s estimates, and they announced the first in a series of price cuts that they intend to increase sales further.
C、Surpassing Wall Street’s estimates, the report of the computer company showed strong second-quarter earnings, and, for the purpose of increasing sales further, they announced the first in a series of price cuts.
D、The computer company reported strong second-quarter earnings, surpassing Wall Street’s estimates, and announcing the first in a series of price cuts for the purpose of further increasing sales.
E、The computer company, surpassing Wall Street’s estimates, reported strong second-quarter earnings, while announcing that to increase sales further there would be the first in a series of price cuts.
答案 A
解析 Logical predication; Idiom
The point of the sentence is to describe two actions of the computer company: its earnings report and its announcement of a price cut. To present this information most efficiently, the sentence requires a singular subject "the computer company" and compound verbs {reported and announced). To indicate that it is the company’s earnings and not the report that surpassed Wall Street’s estimates, the relative clause that surpassed. . . must immediately follow earnings.
A Correct. The sentence makes clear that the company is responsible for reporting its earnings and announcing its sales plan; the placement of the relative clause that surpassed... makes it clear that the company’s earnings, not the report, surpassed Wall Street’s estimate.
B Because this compound sentence opens the first clause with the subject the report, and relegates the computer company to the position of object of a preposition, the referent of the subject of the second clause they is obscured—particularly since they is plural and the intended referent company is singular. The function of that in the final clause is ambiguous and confusing.
C The placement of the opening modifier surpassing... makes it modify report rather than estimate. The plural pronoun they does not agree with its intended antecedent, company.
D Surpassing... and the parallel phrase announcing... both appear to modify the entire opening clause, representing parallel functions of the company’s report of its earnings.
E The placement of surpassing... makes that phrase modify reported. ... The conjunction while indicates that the announcement and the report occurred simultaneously. The phrase there would be... introduces unnecessary wordiness and indirection.
The correct answer is A.
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