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作者: rightaway 时间: 2003-8-28 09:11
标题: GMAT语法讨论二[推荐]
1, Charles Lindbergh, for his attempt at a solo transatlantic flight, was very reluctant to have any extra weight on his plane, he therefore refused to carry even a pound of mail, despite being offered $1,000 to do so.
A. Charles Lindbergh, for his attempt at a solo transatlantic flight, was very reluctant to have any extra weight on his plane, he therefore
B. When Charles Lindbergh was attempting his solo transatlantic flight, being very reluctant to have any extra weight on his plane, he
C. Since he was very reluctant to carry any extra weight on his plane when he was attempting his solo transatlantic flight, so Charles Lindbergh
D. Being very reluctant to carry any extra weight on his plane when he attempted his solo transatlantic flight was the reason that Charles Lindbergh
E. Very reluctant to have any extra weight on his plane when he attempted his solo transatlantic flight, Charles Lindbergh

2.The Quechuans believed that all things participated in both the material level and the mystical level of reality, and many individual Quechuans claimed to have contact with it directly with an ichana (dream) experience.

A. contact with it directly with
B. direct contact with it by way of
C. contact with the latter directly through
D. direct contact with the latter by means of
E. contact directly with the mystical level due to

作者: braveMBA 时间: 2003-8-28 10:17
1、E。
A-Run-on Sentence
B-'being very ...' is wordy
C-'Since..., so' is unidiom, it seems there is no main clause
D-it seems that the logical subject of 'Being very...' is 'the reason' rather than Charles Lindbergh.

2、D。
Here 'contact' must be noun, so 'directly' used here to modify 'contact' here is wrong, thus A,C,E out. In B, 'it' is unclear. D, the sentence substitutes 'the latter' for 'it', is meaning.

作者: dullpen 时间: 2003-8-28 11:02
同意bravemba.
1、E: concise and idiomatic
2、D: eliminate ambiguity in proun refering. "by means of " is pertinent and idiomatic.

作者: 7986 时间: 2003-8-28 19:48
1. E
2. C
directly through符合原文意思

作者: yiyiying 时间: 2003-8-29 02:30
1 E
2 C D中direct的修饰对像发生变化，改变原句意思。

作者: braveMBA 时间: 2003-8-29 05:11
Meaning. In my opinion, the meaning of the sentence is "一些独立的Q宣称，通过I体验，同后者有直接的接触", direct or directly,here, modifies 'contact', not the 'through'.

作者: joice 时间: 2003-8-29 06:26

以下是引用braveMBA在2003-8-28 10:17:00的发言：

2、D。
Here 'contact' must be noun, so 'directly' used here to modify 'contact' here is wrong, thus A,C,E out. In B, 'it' is unclear. D, the sentence substitutes 'the latter' for 'it', is meaning.

I choose C. If contact is a noun, It should be :
Have a direct contact with the latter or have direct contacts --

作者: lilyhuang 时间: 2003-8-29 16:04
1. E
2. D
many individual Quechuans claimed to have contact with it directly with an ichana (dream) experience.
the sentence has ambiguity if "directly" is placed as up-mentioned, "directly" can be treated to modify the verb "have" or preposition phase "with...". So i select choice D.

作者: 7986 时间: 2003-8-29 18:52
contact就是communication with each other or touch each other，为什么还加direct? 难道还有indirect contact? directly through an ichana experience 等于exactly through an ichana experience

作者: zhouhaichen 时间: 2003-9-8 17:01
同意 lilyhuang
很有启发,
提一个问题: 如果出现 to contact directly with 是不是也不对,因为directly即可能修饰contact 也可能修饰 with. 而to directly contact with 则修改了这一毛病?

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作者: cooperqi 时间: 2003-9-8 23:32
D

direct修饰contact, 直接修饰...experience意思不符

作者: givemeahome 时间: 2003-9-9 03:07
C,

through experience
by means of experience ???

作者: merlion 时间: 2003-9-9 09:16
c

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作者: dandan74 时间: 2003-9-9 14:58
I prefer C for the second question. People rarely use "direct contact" this way in Northern America. "Direct contact" means a person you can contact for sth. For example, here is a typical conversion:
A guy: I cannot fix this Dell computer, I need to contact the vendor by the toll-free phone.
His supervisor: You don't have to use the phone number. I have the direct contact in Dell, I can give you the name.

作者: lemonee 时间: 2003-9-10 04:13
no 2 I choose D
I thought c is a obvious pitfall of Ets.cause word "directly" can modify both "through"and "contact" if we choose c .It lead to the dangling modification,which is repeated and empasized many times in OG.

作者: nettalker 时间: 2003-9-10 23:10
2. D definitely.
C: directly through must modify a verb as adverbial phrase. So either it modifies claimed(impossible, so get it eliminated) or have, noting that it can't modify contact(noun).
Then it must modify have. Such usage is awkward and illogical.

作者: Mission 时间: 2003-9-11 04:31
I prefer d in question 2. Asking an american student here to make sure, she think D is better, but she can not tell why. hehe

作者: hanth 时间: 2003-9-11 17:10
D ＩＳＣＯＮＦＯＲＭＥＤ

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