885 SEC D-24/different than

sbbi

24.    As U.S. nuclear attack submarines prowl their familiar haunts deep within the oceans of the world these days, they increasingly are engaged in missions far different from the tasks for which they were built and for which their crews were trained over the last forty years.
(A) they increasingly are engaged in missions far different from the tasks for which they were built
(B) the missions they increasingly engage in are far different than the tasks they were built for
(C) they engage increasingly in missions that differ significantly from the tasks they were built for
(D) the missions they engage in are increasingly different than the tasks for which they were built
(E) they increasingly engage in missions far different than the tasks for which they were built

ANSWER A. AGREE.但请问
1)A是不是they are increasingly engaged 更好.
2)ETS承认different than么?(American English)
3)如果2)可以,我觉的E也对.SB ENGAGE IN STH

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twelvecolors

这道题我开始也选的e，我觉得e更简洁，后来发现far different 不是比较级所以不能跟than搭配，也许你说的2)在american english可以，但这里是standard english,所以可能还是a更优！

gemj

举双手赞同SBBI的三点论断：

以下是引用sbbi在2003-10-15 1:34:00的发言：
但请问
1)A是不是they are increasingly engaged 更好.
2)ETS承认different than么?(American English)
3)如果2)可以,我觉的E也对.SB ENGAGE IN STH

并且一一充实如下：

1)A是不是they are increasingly engaged 更好.
Are与increasingly同时出现的时候，永远是are increasingly，见下面的例子。而且在所有的阅读和逻辑中，没有increasingly are的情况出现（EXHAUSTIVE）。而且从语法上，increasingly are好像没有合理的解释（至少我们可以认为这是UNIDIOMATIC的）。因为这点，我认为，这个题目的答案应该就是E。（XDF原稿的答案好像不是ETS给的，至少不是ETS材料的复印件）
8.    Some companies in fields where skilled employees are hard to find make signing an “agreement not to compete” a condition of employment. In such an agreement the employee promises not to go work for a competing firm for a set period after leaving his or her current employer. Courts are increasingly ruling that these agreements are not binding. Yet paradoxically, for people who signed such agreements when working for competing firms, many firms are unwilling to consider hiring them during the period covered by the agreement.
Which one of the following, if true, most helps to resolve the paradox?
(A) Many companies will not risk having to become involved in lawsuits, even suits that they expect to have a favorable outcome.
(B) In some industries, for example the broadcast media, companies’ main source of new employees tends to be people who are already employed by competing firms.
(C) Most companies that require their employees to sign agreements not to compete are aware that these documents are not legally binding.
(D) Many people who have signed agreements not to compete are unwilling to renege on a promise by going to work for a competing firm.
(E) Many companied consider their employees established relationships with clients and other people outside the company to be valuable company assets.

10.    Famous personalities found guilty of many types of crimes in well-publicized trials are increasingly sentenced to the performance of community service, though unknown defendants convicted of similar crimes almost always serve prison sentences. However, the principle of equality before the law rules out using fame and publicity as relevant considerations in the sentencing of convicted criminals.
The statements above, if true, most strongly support which one of the following conclusions?
(A) The principle of equality before the law is rigorously applied in only a few types of criminal trials.
(B) The number of convicted celebrities sentenced to community service should equal the number of convicted unknown defendants sentenced to community service.
(C) The principle of equality before the law can properly be overridden by other principles in some cases.
(D) The sentencing of celebrities to community service instead of prison constitutes a violation of the principle of equality before the law in many cases.
(E) The principle of equality before the law does not allow for leniency in sentencing.

6.    Three major laundry detergent manufacturers have concentrated their powdered detergents by reducing the proportion of inactive ingredients in the detergent formulas. The concentrated detergents will be sold in smaller packages. In explaining the change, the manufacturers cited the desire to reduce cardboard packaging and other production costs. Market analysts predict that the decision of these three manufacturers, who control 80 percent of the laundry detergent market, will eventually bring about the virtual disappearance of old-style bulky detergents.
Which one of the following, if true, most strongly supports the prediction made by the market analysts?
(A) Most smaller manufacturers of laundry detergents will consider it too expensive to retool factories for the production of the smaller detergent packages.
(B) Many consumers will be skeptical initially that the recommended small amount of concentrated detergent will clean laundry as effectively as the larger amount of the old-style detergent did.
(C) Some analysts believe that consumers will have to pay a greater cost per load of laundry to use the new concentrated detergent than they did to use the old-style detergent.
(D) Major supermarkets have announced that they will not charge the detergent manufacturers less to display their detergents even though the detergents will take up less shelf space.
(E) Consumers are increasingly being persuaded by environmental concerns to buy concentrated detergents when available in order to reduce cardboard waste.

According to the Arrhenius equation, chemical reactions are increasingly unlikely to occur as temperatures approach absolute zero, and at absolute zero (zero degrees Kelvin, or minus 273 degrees Celsius) reactions stop.

2)ETS承认different than么?(American English)
除了LONGMAN上有这个说法外，MW也有，而且它好像也没有说这有什么特别或不正常：
different
1: partly or totally unlike in nature, form, or quality: DISSIMILAR “could hardly be more different”－often followed by from, than, or chiefly British to “small, neat hand, very different from the captain's tottery characters －R. L. Stevenson” “vastly different in size than it was twenty-five years ago －N. M. Pusey”

3)如果2)可以,我觉的E也对.SB ENGAGE IN STH
sb engage in sth
sb is/are engaged in sth
都对。见LONGMAN的解释和例句：
ENGAGE：
[intransitive always + preposition] to be doing or to become involved in an activity
engage in/on/upon
Only 10% of American adults engage in regular exercise.
The two parties engaged upon an escalating political struggle.
Mr. Armstrong was engaged in prayer.

最后，再来一个与E选项无比相似的例子：
13.    Canadians now increasingly engage in “out-shopping,” which is shopping across the national border, where prices are lower. Prices are lower outside of Canada in large part because the goods-and-services tax that pays for Canadian social services is not applied.
Which one of the following is best supported on the basis of the information above?
(A) If the upward trend in out-shopping continues at a significant level and the amounts paid by the government for Canadian social services are maintained, the Canadian goods-and-services tax will be assessed at a higher rate.
(B) If Canada imposes a substantial tariff on the goods bought across the border, a reciprocal tariff on cross-border shopping in the other direction will be imposed, thereby harming Canadian businesses.
(C) The amounts the Canadian government pays out to those who provide social services to Canadians are increasing.
(D) The same brands of goods are available to Canadian shoppers across the border as are available in Canada.
(E) Out-shopping purchases are subject to Canadian taxes when the purchaser crosses the border to bring them into Canada.

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sbbi

gemj兄你费心了!!!

sbbi

也许句意上讲应 (将军) ENGAGE submarines IN.... 但 submarines ENGAGE IN好象也通

gemj

是啊，这里的主语是submarines。好象应该可以。
难道还有别的什么玄机？

lookgood

Agree with gemj that answer "E" is correct.
I found "different than" in a sentence writen by ETS in "http://www.ets.org/research/dload/AACCHelp.pdf".

The concentration of jobs in the United States today is radically different than it was in 1959 (Carnevale and Rose, 1998).

感谢gemj长期无私的贡献。

gemj

也感谢你的例子，感谢你的表扬！

miejue

这个题目A答案是对的 E答案是错的

副词放在系动词前面和后面在英语里都可以

1。可以参考大全 Section B No.17
During the first nine months of 1979, textbook publishers incurred substantial costs for creating products that, due to a decline in public funding for instructional material, never were sold.

2。increasingly are的用法也有 虽然很少
many of these groups increasingly are relying on sophisticated fundraising programs developed by outside specialists, one expert in the field, Robert I. Evans, said today.（As seen in JEWISH JOURNAL, July 27, 2000）

3。different from 和different than的用法问题
    1）两个都是正确的 The phrases different from and different than are both common in British and American English. The British also use the construction different to. Since the 18th century, language critics have singled out different than as incorrect, though it is well attested in the works of reputable writers. If you want to follow traditional guidelines, use from when the comparison is between two persons or things.
    2）different than is more acceptably used, particularly in American usage, where the object of comparison is expressed by a full clause: The campus is different than it was twenty years ago.
    3）different than 还是有直接跟名词的用法 但有不同的含义 Sometimes people interpret a simple noun phrase following different than as elliptical for a clause, which allows for a subtle distinction in meaning between the two constructions. How different this seems from Paris suggests that the object of comparison is the city of Paris itself, whereas How different this seems than Paris suggests that the object of comparison is something like “the way things were in Paris” or “what happened in Paris.”

所以这里A没有错 而E如果用different than的意思和原文要表达的差别的意思不同

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gemj

太好了！
你的这个区别是从哪里弄出来的？