GWD26-Q18看完讨论之后还是不明白，请NN指点

feiyuwuhen12

A medieval manuscript called L contains all eighteen extant tragedies by the Greek playwright Euripides. Of these, ten called the “select plays,” are accompanied in L by ancient commentaries and also appear in other medieval manuscripts; this group includes some of Euripides’ best-known works, including the Medea. The other eight, which appear in alphabetical order, without commentary. The Electra is one of the alphabeticals.

Which of the following can be reliably concluded on the basis of the Statements given?

A.    Only Euripides’ best-known works are accompanied by ancient commentaries in extant medieval manuscripts.

B.    The select plays are accompanied by ancient commentaries because they were the best known of Euripides’ works.

C.    No commentaries were written about Euripides’ Electra in ancient times.

D.    Euripides’ Medea never appears in medieval manuscripts unaccompanied by ancient commentary.

E.     Euripides’ Electra does not appear accompanied by a commentary in any extant medieval manuscript.

答案是E

Howto

这题很明白啊！主要看懂原文

原文说 L是份中世纪的手稿，包含了18部希腊作家E的悲剧。在这其中，10部被称为SP，这些SP是有评论的，并且除了在L中出现还在其他中世纪的手稿中出现。SL这十部悲剧中包含E的最有名的著作，M是其中的一部。 其他的八部（不是SP的悲剧）是按照字母顺序出现的，并且没有评论。EL是暗字母顺序出现中的一部。

结论题！

A说只有E写的最好的作品边上才有评论。原文只说SL中有一些是E最好的作品。

B说因为SL是E写的最好的所以才有评论。原文没有说过

C说在古时候没有关于EE的评论。

D说E的M没有评论伴随。（和原文相反）

E说E的E没有被评论伴随在任何中世纪的手稿中。

接着很简单，比较CE，发觉C可以推出E。所以只要C对E一定对。根据GMAT的出题原则，不会出现两个答案，所以E是正确的。

hsacrist6

懂了，从“the other eight"交代了包括Electra在内的八本书是without commentary的,而另外十本之前说了是accompanied in L by ancient commentary（即这十本都给予置评，名花有主了），E选项说的就是现在把八分之一（即Electra）放到一个整体中（共十八本），而其中的10/18又with commentary,推出作为1/18的Electra终究不还是without commentary么...够清楚了~

rachel121121

以下是引用hsacrist6在2009/5/22 20:41:00的发言：

懂了，从“the other eight"交代了包括Electra在内的八本书是without commentary的,而另外十本之前说了是accompanied in L by ancient commentary（即这十本都给予置评，名花有主了），E选项说的就是现在把八分之一（即Electra）放到一个整体中（共十八本），而其中的10/18又with commentary,推出作为1/18的Electra终究不还是without commentary么...够清楚了~

文中并没有信息可以证明，E是放在这18本里比较的。因为文中说的all 18 extant tragedies 是by the Greek playwright Euripides.而E中之说是extant manuscript。不能说明指的就是这18个。而且，还说10本还在其他的manuscript里面出现过，说明的确有其他的manuscript存在。

所以，对在下的分析，本人不大赞同。

zxj191401

很早之前被大家讨论的题，我今天做错了，最后想通了，所以来发表下我的意见

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            GWD26-Q18

A medieval manuscript called L contains all eighteen extant tragedies by the Greek playwright Euripides. Of these, ten called the “select plays,” are accompanied in L by ancient commentaries and also appear in other medieval manuscripts; this group includes some of Euripides’ best-known works, including the Medea. The other eight, which appear in alphabetical order, without commentary. The Electra is one of the alphabeticals.

L中①10本选集，有评论，出现在其他手稿中

      包括部分的最好作品，其中有M

②8个首字母排序文，没有评论

  包括E

Which of the following can be reliably concluded on the basis of the Statements given?

A.     Only Euripides’ best-known works are accompanied by ancient commentaries in extant medieval manuscripts.

有评论的有10本，其中部分是最好作品，所以一定有不是最好作品的作品是有评论的

B.     The select plays are accompanied by ancient commentaries because they were the best known of Euripides’ works.    无关选项，没说有评论的原因

C.     No commentaries were written about Euripides’ Electra in ancient times.

L中的E没有评论，不表示E从来没有评论

D.    Euripides’ Medea never appears in medieval manuscripts unaccompanied by ancient commentary.

在L中的M是有评论的，不代表M在所有手稿中都有评论

E.     Euripides’ Electra does not appear accompanied by a commentary in any extant medieval manuscript.

首先，E出现在L中，但是没有评论

其次，E没有出现在过其他的手稿中

综上，E在所有的手稿中都没有伴随评论出现过

NgKKh

文中提出SP也出现在其他手稿中，并不等于说剩下的8篇全都没有在其他手稿中出现啊。理由不充分。个人觉得题目出得有问题。

xiaofan1016

关键得知道extant的意思...

ghgriffin

我不理解答案E中， 为什么要用 any，只能说在挖出来的里面没有啊，可是不能推出在任何extant medieval中都没有啊

applehao

18. GWD26-Q18

A medieval manuscript中世纪的手抄本 called L contains all eighteen extant tragedies by the Greek playwright Euripides. Of these, ten called the “select plays,” are accompanied in L by ancient commentaries and also appear in other medieval manuscripts; this group includes some of Euripides’ best-known works, including the Medea. The other eight, which appear in alphabetical order, without commentary. The Electra is one of the alphabeticals.

Which of the following can be reliably concluded on the basis of the Statements given?

同意6楼的，觉得选项E逻辑有漏洞。文章的叙述和逻辑关系很清楚：中世纪手稿一部叫“L”，由两部分组成。一部分是10个专门挑出来的"selective play"，伴有评论且appear in other medieval manuscripts（其中包括Medea）；另一部分有8个，按字母顺序排列，没有评论（其中包括Electra）。ABCD四个选项都很好排除，但E选项“
                            Euripides’ Electra does not appear accompanied by a commentary in any extant medieval manuscript”的意思是在任何“现存的extant”手稿中都没有评论伴随出现。文章只提到了在“L"当中Electra"没有伴随评论，“L”显然不能等同于“any extant medieval manuscript"。

fromludi

我就是看到E选项里的extent才把E舍弃的……