Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was an American author and journalist. His
writing style, characterized by simplicity and understatement, influenced
modern fiction, as_______his life of adventure.
(A) was (B) being (C) did (D) doing
解答为C 理由是did代替前面的influcenced
我想问为什么可以判断did出是代替 influened 而不是 characterized 呢
是因为这句话接在influencedmodern fiction的后面吗
还是从文意上判断出来的呢

characterized by simplicity and understatement只是一个形容词词组，用来修饰his writing style。这句话的动词是influenced

简单判断的话就是前后有两个逗号，可以把他当作是中文的括号，所以只是修饰／解释（可有可无的意思）结构就如楼上大大说的，主要子句的动词落在influenced，后面as自然会接动词也就是助动词did