Question

3道SAT OC真题 改错。求指导！！

1. 【Absent from】 the speech 【were】 any mention of the students and laboratory technicians upon 【whose】 contributions the chemist had depended 【heavily】. 答案是【were】错了。请问这句话什么意思，为什么错了，怎么改？？

2. A possible first step 【in developing】 a nonsexist vocabulary 【with which】 to analyze the works 【of】 the nineteenth-century writer Elizabeth Gaskell would be 【to stop】 referring to her as 'Mrs. Gaskell'. 答案是【to stop】错了。同上

3. When the village elders 【present】 recommendations, 【there is】 【hardly ever】 any opposition 【against】 their proposals. 答案是【against】错了。同上

Answer 1

1. 【Absent from】the speech 【were】 any mention of the students and laboratory technicians upon 【whose】 contributions the chemist had depended 【heavily .
这句话要采取就后原则，were和any mention属于主谓一致错误。any mention是单数，所以were应该改成was
2. A possible first step 【in developing】 a nonsexist vocabulary 【with which】 to analyze the works 【of】 the nineteenth-century writer Elizabeth Gaskell would be 【to stop】 referring to her as 'Mrs. Gaskell'.
这句话里，would be 后应该跟现在进行时，而不是将来时。be to do是一般现在时表将来的用法。
. When the village elders 【present】 recommendations, 【there is】 【hardly ever】 any opposition 【against】 their proposals.
固定搭配错误。against本身有反对的意思，这里应改为to，够成be opposition to

Answer 2

1. 主语是any mention，所以应用was
此句可转换为：Any mention of the students and.... was abesent from the speech.就是说演讲中没有提到这个chemist极其依赖的学生和实验室技术人员所作出的贡献。
2. 暂时看不出来
3. opposition表示反对时，后接介词to。如：Much public opposition to the new law remained.