Season 1——manhattan 2(car accidents)(已结贴)

毛毛carina

2. The amount of car accidents caused by faulty brakes, like accidents caused by faulty wiring, has increased significantly since regulations on manufacturing have been relaxed.
A. The amount of car accidents caused by faulty brakes, like accidents caused by faulty wiring, has increased significantly since regulations on manufacturing have been relaxed.
B. The amount of car accidents caused by faulty brakes, like those caused by faulty wiring, have increased significantly since regulations on manufacturing were relaxed.
C. The number of car accidents caused by faulty brakes, like the number caused by faulty wiring, have increased significantly since regulations on manufacturing were relaxed.
D. The number of car accidents caused by faulty brakes, like accidents caused by faulty wiring, has increased significantly since regulations on manufacturing had been relaxed.
E.
The number of car accidents caused by faulty brakes, like the number caused by faulty wiring, has increased significantly since regulations on manufacturing were relaxed.

原题解析：
Theoriginal sentence contains several errors. First, it is incorrect to refer to"the amount of car accidents" because "amount of" is usedonly with uncountable quantities, such as “amount of salt.” Since accidents arecountable, the correct quantity reference is "the number of caraccidents." Second, the original sentence compares “the amount ofaccidents” to “accidents caused by faulty wiring.” The correct (i.e., logicallyand structurally parallel) comparison is between the number of one type ofaccident and the number of another type of accident. Third, the present perfect"have been relaxed" is incorrectly used. This action occurredexclusively in the past, so the simple past "were relaxed" is needed.
(A) This choice is incorrect as it repeats theoriginal sentence.
(B) First, it is incorrect to refer to "theamount of car accidents" because "amount of" is used only withuncountable quantities, such as “amount of salt.” Since accidents arecountable, the correct quantity reference is "the number of caraccidents." Second, this choice compares “the amount of accidents” to“accidents caused by faulty wiring.” The correct (i.e., logically andstructurally parallel) comparison is between the number of one type of accidentand the number of another type of accident. Finally, the antecedent of theplural pronoun “those” is ambiguous: it could refer to “car accidents” or“faulty brakes.”
(C) The plural verb “have increased” does notagree with the singular subject “the number.”
(D) This choice compares “the number of caraccidents caused by faulty brakes” to “accidents caused by faulty wiring.” Thecorrect (i.e., logically and structurally parallel) comparison is between “thenumber of car accidents caused by faulty brakes” to “the number of caraccidents caused by faulty wiring.” Third, the past perfect "had beenrelaxed" can only be correctly used to indicate that the regulations wererelaxed prior to some other action in the past. In this sentence, there is noother past action, so the use of the past perfect tense cannot be justified andthe simple past "were relaxed" should be used instead.
(E) CORRECT. “Thenumber” is correctly used to refer to car accidents, a countable quantity.Also, a logically and structurally parallel comparison is made between “thenumber of car accidents caused by faulty brakes” to “the number caused byfaulty wiring.” Finally, this choice uses the correct simple past “wererelaxed.”

题目点评：
本题涉及多个考点：主谓一致、平行、代词指代、固定搭配、时态。

Like是一个非常典型的平行结构signal，迅速排除A,B,D。对比剩余的C和E选项，句子主语the number of car accidents 为单数形式，果断排除C，即可得出答案。

也可以通过固定搭配the amount of 只用于修饰不可数名词，排除A,B；通过时态，relax这个动作是发生在过去，而不是一个延续性的动作，所以不必要使用现在完成时或者过去完成时，排除A,D；

涉及代词指代的选项只有B，those前面有两个可以指代的复数名词，所以必然存在着指代不清的错误。
在平时练习的时候，应该细心的挖掘所有错误。

思维点评：
1. “E的逻辑意思明显不通，怎么能说number是被faulty wiring引起的”——frankcomputer  
“除了主谓一致，还要考虑number 是不能被caused的”                       ——nhelpn    
the number后面省略了of car accidents，因此caused by修饰的其实不是单纯的thenumber，而是the number of car accidents. 这是并列和比较中常常有类似的省略。这里like引导了比较结构，所以like前后都必须是number。确实，cause的宾语必须是一个事件，而不能说一个物体、一个数字等等，但是具体应用中，或许这些不能够被cause的东东，其实是指代了“事件”，或者说实际被修饰的“事件”已经被省略了，那么cause的“宾语”就可以是看它们。“number 是不能被caused的”，这个判断仅仅从表象出发，而忽略了本质。
要避免这一类错误，首先要明白这一类错误常见于比较和平行结构，因此遇到平行、比较时要特别注意是不是省略了什么。其次可以留心或总结一下这一类可以替代整个短语的词，number, that, many, kind等等…

2. “ like与最近的中心词平行；since不表示现在完成时的时间状语从句标志词，而是‘由于’的意思，表示因果关系： has表示对现在有影响”——troyyu  
(1)“like与最近的中心词平行”这句话其实是对的，但是最近的中心词是number，而不是car accidents哦。这句话修正一下“like后的名词与最近名词短语的中心词要概念上绝对平行”。对于平行连接词的用法，务必每一个都牢固掌握。平行连接词不多，而且是sc的必考点。GMAC是个黔驴，考来考去基本上就考几个大点，早已经技穷了。
(2)其实这里since引导的是时间状语从句，整句讲的是自从管制放松以后出现的一个现象。
since即便表示因果关系，里面也暗含了“时间上起始点”含义的，所以since表示因果的时候，那个结果必须是“顺其自然、显而易见、必定会发生”的结果，比如Since you are unable to answer, perhaps we should ask someoneelse.以及Since we've no money we can't buy a new car.。而这里，车祸的增加显然不是一个“管制放宽的必然结果”。

3. “since后面不能接完成时态”——oucmhy
    since后面还是可以用完成时态的：She has never come to see me since I have lived in the city.，不过此时since从句的谓语动词必须是延续性动词(如be动词)，而不能是像relax这样的瞬时动词，所以这个题目里用现在完成时确实是错误的。

做题小tips：
除了那些划线部分极短的题目，大部分SC题目都至少涉及两个考点。平时训练的时候要培养两种意识和习惯：第一，对典型的signal 敏感；第二，从自己熟悉和擅长的知识点切入，从大考点切入！在主流面前，别让非主流迷乱了你的双眼。

本次精华楼层：
1楼——若雪
6楼——纳丁Cat
17楼——DoGMATRight

若雪

我觉得是E
首先这句话的意思是faulty brakes导致的事故数量和faulty wiring导致的事故一样 在manufacturing的regulation放松以后都增长了很多。
事故数量可数名词用the number of 排除AB 比较的是事故的数量，比较对象一致。所以排除D 然后这边强调的是数字 the number，谓语动词用单数...就E了...

stleung

选E吧，首先排除B、C，主谓语不一致，D中的过去完成时有问题，A中的现在完成时不符合逻辑，E。。Perfect...理由，取ABCD的非吧！~

longerlonger

E，先用the amount of 修饰不可数进行排除AB，再用LIKE作比较的东西必须平行，排除D，再用主谓一致排除C

frankcomputer

我觉得是D

E的逻辑意思明显不通，怎么能说number是被faulty wiring引起的

RyanC

E,最对称，主谓一致

纳丁Cat

2. The amount of car accidents caused by faulty brakes, like accidents caused by faulty wiring, has increased significantly since regulations on manufacturing have been relaxed.
A       The amount of car accidents caused by faulty brakes, like accidents caused by faulty wiring, has increased significantly since regulations on manufacturing have been relaxed.
B       The amount of car accidents caused by faulty brakes, like those caused by faulty wiring, have increased significantly since regulations on manufacturing were relaxed.
C       The number of car accidents caused by faulty brakes, like the number caused by faulty wiring, have increased significantly since regulations on manufacturing were relaxed.
D      The number of car accidents caused by faulty brakes, like accidents caused by faulty wiring, has increased significantly since regulations on manufacturing had been relaxed.
E       The number of car accidents caused by faulty brakes, like the number caused by faulty wiring, has increased significantly since regulations on manufacturing were relaxed.

这句话讲由刹车引起的汽车事故的总数，跟错误的线路引发的数量一样，在制造条款放宽后都大大上升了。

A 比较对象不对等，前面的数量，后面是事故；since regulations on manufacturing have been relaxed.后面得时态错误，since之后一般用点时间。
B 比较对象不对等；have应该改为has。
C the number of 表一个数量，后面应该用has
D 比较对象不对等；since后面得时态错误。
E 正确。

PS:昨天的答案在哪啊？

毛毛carina

2. The amount of car accidents caused by faulty brakes, like accidents caused by faulty wiring, has increased significantly since regulations on manufacturing have been relaxed.
A       The amount of car accidents caused by faulty brakes, like accidents caused by faulty wiring, has increased significantly since regulations on manufacturing have been relaxed.
B       The amount of car accidents caused by faulty brakes, like those caused by faulty wiring, have increased significantly since regulations on manufacturing were relaxed.
C       The number of car accidents caused by faulty brakes, like the number caused by faulty wiring, have increased significantly since regulations on manufacturing were relaxed.
D      The number of car accidents caused by faulty brakes, like accidents caused by faulty wiring, has increased significantly since regulations on manufacturing had been relaxed.
E       The number of car accidents caused by faulty brakes, like the number caused by faulty wiring, has increased significantly since regulations on manufacturing were relaxed.

这句话讲由刹车引起的汽车事故的总数，跟错误的线路引发的数量一样，在制造条款放宽后都大大上升了。

A 比较对象不对等，前面的数量，后面是事故；since regulations on manufacturing have been relaxed.后面得时态错误，since之后一般用点时间。
B 比较对象不对等；have应该改为has。
C the number of 表一个数量，后面应该用has
D 比较对象不对等；since后面得时态错误。
E 正确。

PS:昨天的答案在哪啊？

-- by 会员 纳丁Cat (2011/9/3 14:17:57)

已经更新在主楼了哇

纳丁Cat

2. The amount of car accidents caused by faulty brakes, like accidents caused by faulty wiring, has increased significantly since regulations on manufacturing have been relaxed.
A       The amount of car accidents caused by faulty brakes, like accidents caused by faulty wiring, has increased significantly since regulations on manufacturing have been relaxed.
B       The amount of car accidents caused by faulty brakes, like those caused by faulty wiring, have increased significantly since regulations on manufacturing were relaxed.
C       The number of car accidents caused by faulty brakes, like the number caused by faulty wiring, have increased significantly since regulations on manufacturing were relaxed.
D      The number of car accidents caused by faulty brakes, like accidents caused by faulty wiring, has increased significantly since regulations on manufacturing had been relaxed.
E       The number of car accidents caused by faulty brakes, like the number caused by faulty wiring, has increased significantly since regulations on manufacturing were relaxed.

这句话讲由刹车引起的汽车事故的总数，跟错误的线路引发的数量一样，在制造条款放宽后都大大上升了。

A 比较对象不对等，前面的数量，后面是事故；since regulations on manufacturing have been relaxed.后面得时态错误，since之后一般用点时间。
B 比较对象不对等；have应该改为has。
C the number of 表一个数量，后面应该用has
D 比较对象不对等；since后面得时态错误。
E 正确。

PS:昨天的答案在哪啊？

-- by 会员 纳丁Cat (2011/9/3 14:17:57)

已经更新在主楼了哇

-- by 会员 毛毛carina (2011/9/3 14:26:06)

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CQcoffee88

E，the amount of 修饰不可数，like句型前后指代需要平行，the number做主语，要用第三人称单数。