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(A)breaks
(B)break
(C)breaking
(D)broken

結構分析

These women are engineers, politicians, doctors, lawyers, and scientists, and a few have begun to occupy executive positions in business, government, and banking, breaking through the so-called glass ceiling.

and a few have begun此處的and屬於連接2個子句的對等連接詞，分別是黃色與綠色子句。對等連接詞文法

文法分析

a few have begun to occupy executive positions in business, government, and banking, 44 through the so-called glass ceiling.

完整的句子必須要有主詞、動詞，此句的主詞是a few意味著有一些女人們；動詞為begun。

當題目設計要我們選出第二個動詞時，千萬不可掉入陷阱，要小心一個句子只能有一個動詞，因此才將break through改成分詞構句breaking(主動改ing；被動改pp)。分詞構句文法

進階文法分析

若將此處分詞構句還原就會變成：

第一句a few have begun to occupy executive positions in business, government, and banking.

第二句a few break through the so-called glass ceiling.

至於動詞時態第一句是現在完成式；第二句為現在式，是因為在英語同一句話中，有兩個時態時(先得到領導職位，玻璃天花板才算打破)，將發生在前者改成完成式。

so-called 所謂