So we went to the restaurant and sat by a window 38 the bay.
答案：(B) overlooking
現在分詞 overlooking 作形容詞修飾 window，表示「俯瞰海灣的窗戶」，窗戶是主動地「俯瞰」海灣；overlook（原形動詞）、overlooks（限定動詞）都不能這樣修飾名詞，overlooked（過去分詞，被動語意「被俯瞰」）方向不合。
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四個選項是 overlook 的四種形態，你會直覺去找主詞、判時態。但空格前面是 a window（名詞）、後面是 the bay（名詞），這一串不是句子的動詞，是拿來修飾 window 的。這一格考的是分詞當形容詞用。
先看結構：主要子句是 we went to the restaurant and sat by a window ___ the bay，動詞已經有 went 與 sat 兩個了，所以空格不可能再是一個主要動詞。overlook 與 overlooks 都是限定動詞，需要主詞、只能當句子的動詞，先出局。剩下 overlooking 與 overlooked，用主動被動分：窗戶與海灣的關係是「窗戶朝向海灣、從窗戶看得到海灣」，是窗戶主動朝向，所以用現在分詞 overlooking。這裡有一條很好用的位置規則，而且不只管分詞：修飾語的中心語後面只要還掛著東西，整串就得放到名詞後面。分詞是這樣——單獨一個分詞放名詞前（a barking dog 一隻正在叫的狗、a broken window 一扇破掉的窗），帶了受詞就整串放名詞後（a window overlooking the bay 一扇俯瞰海灣的窗、the man standing there 站在那裡的那個人）。形容詞也是這樣——單獨的形容詞放前面（an eager student 一個好學的孩子），帶了東西就放後面（students eager to learn 渴望學習的孩子、a bottle full of water 一瓶裝滿水的瓶子）。90 年第 18 題的 hard to please 就是形容詞帶著不定詞的例子，所以它擺在 be 動詞後面當補語；真要放到名詞前面，就得用連字號黏成一個字（a hard-to-please customer 一個很難討好的客人）。本題的 overlooking 帶著受詞 the bay，所以整串掛在 window 後面，走的是同一條規則。同型的題目：89 年第 28 題的 facing a lion，也是現在分詞帶著受詞、補充說明前面那個畫面。
overlooked：過去分詞表被動，變成「被俯瞰的窗戶」，方向反了——是從窗戶看出去，不是窗戶被看。overlook、overlooks：限定動詞。句子已經有 went 與 sat 兩個動詞，不能再多一個而中間什麼都不加。
a room overlooking the sea（面海的房間）、overlook sth（俯瞰；忽略）、sit by a window（坐在窗邊）、a barking dog（正在叫的狗）、the man standing there（站在那裡的男子）、by the bay（在海灣邊）。
It was my first day in this beautiful tropical city. 31 I was walking to the beach, a stranger came up to me and tried to shake my hand. "Don't you remember me, my friend?" he said. But I couldn't 32 his face at all. I didn't know a soul in the city. I had just arrived by plane and still had jetlag. "I 33 you at the airport. I work there at the customs. How are you enjoying our beautiful city?" I couldn't remember him but I was too 34 to tell him. He was so friendly.
35 he offered to take me to his uncle's seafood restaurant, just by the beach. I thanked him 36 but he insisted that we should go there for dinner. "You'll love the seafood there," he 37 me. "And it will be a dinner to remember."
So we went to the restaurant and sat by a window 38 the bay. The dinner was great indeed, but the coffee they served was quite different. In fact, it tasted very strange...
Anyway, it was not 39 10 o'clock the next morning that I finally woke up. But I had no idea where I was. All my money was 40 and my "friend" had even taken my watch and my shoes!