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  3. Long overshadowed by the Maya and Aztec civilizations, historians are now exploring the more ancient Olmec culture for the legac

Long overshadowed by the Maya and Aztec civilizations, historians are now exploring the more ancient Olmec culture for the legac

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问题 Long overshadowed by the Maya and Aztec civilizations, historians are now exploring the more ancient Olmec culture for the legacy it had for succeeding Mesoamerican societies.
选项 A、historians are now exploring the more ancient Olmec culture for the legacy it had for succeeding Mesoamerican societies
B、historians’ exploration is now of the more ancient Olmec culture’s legacy to the Mesoamerican societies succeeding them
C、the legacy of the more ancient Olmec culture to the Mesoamerican societies that succeeded them is what historians are now exploring
D、the more ancient Olmec culture is now being explored by historians for its legacy to succeeding Mesoamerican societies
E、the Olmec culture is more ancient and had a legacy to succeeding Mesoamerican societies that historians are now exploring
答案D
解析 Logical predication; Idiom
The sentence notes that historians are exploring the contributions of the ancient Olmec culture to societies that came after it. The sentence structure is flawed, however.
A The sentence’s initial phrase is, nonsensically, predicated of historians rather than of Olmec culture. The wording for the legacy it had for is verbose, the repetition of for is awkward, and the seconder is unidiomatic with legacy.
B The sentence’s initial phrase long... civilizations is, nonsensically, predicated of exploration.The wording is now of is unnecessarily awkward (for example, the phrase now focuses on would not be so).
C The context suggests that the sentence’s initial phrase long... civilizations is more likely meant to be predicated of a noun phrase referring to another civilization (or culture), thus making the legacy be the subject of the sentence (as opposed to the more ancient Olmec culture). The relative what and its antecedent are too widely separated from each other; also, the construction is what... is unnecessarily awkward.
D Correct. This version is logically and structurally correct. Making the more ancient Olmec culture the subject of the main clause—the most logical subject, given the initial modifying phrase referring to civilizations—has required a change in the verb form, from active to passive. The preposition to following legacy is idiomatic.
E This shifts the emphasis, compared with the given sentence, to how far back in time the Olmec culture existed. Unlike the given sentence, it makes the historians’ current preoccupation with the Olmec culture seem secondary. The wording had a legacy to is unnecessarily awkward.
The correct answer is D.
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