标题: 2018 OG SC 774 小白求教问题 [打印本页] 作者: BenedictFu19 时间: 2018-8-14 15:26 标题: 2018 OG SC 774 小白求教问题 774. Heavy commitment by an executive to a course of action, especially if it has worked well in the past, makes it likely to miss signs of incipient trouble or misinterpret them when they do appear.
(A) Heavy commitment by an executive to a course of action, especially if it has worked well in the past, makes it likely to miss signs of incipient trouble or misinterpret them when they do appear.
(B) An executive who is heavily committed to a course of action, especially one that worked well in the past, makes missing signs of incipient trouble or misinterpreting ones likely when they do appear.
(C) An executive who is heavily committed to a course of action is likely to miss or misinterpret signs of incipient trouble when they do appear, especially if it has worked well in the past.
(D) Executives’ being heavily committed to a course of action, especially if it has worked well in the past, makes them likely to miss signs of incipient trouble or misinterpreting them when they do appear.
(E) Being heavily committed to a course of action, especially one that has worked well in the past, is likely to make an executive miss signs of incipient trouble or misinterpret them when they do appear.
Rhetorical construction; Logical predication
Th is sentence explains that an executive who is blindly committed to a proven course of action is likely to overlook or misinterpret indicators that the plan may no longer be working. Th e sentence needs to make clear who may misinterpret these indicators.
A The passive construction causes the sentence to be wordy and confusing; the reference for it is ambiguous, leaving the reader with questions about who or what is likely to miss these signs.
B The sentence structure indicates that the executive , not his or her strategy, causes signs to be overlooked; the modifier when they do appear is misplaced.
C The reference for the pronoun it is unclear because many nouns have intervened between the appearance of the logical referent ( course of action ) and it .
D Misinterpreting should be an infi nitive verb form to parallel miss ; the phrasing throughout the sentence is wordy and awkward.
E Correct. The grammatical structure of this sentence and the appropriate placement of modifi ers expresses the meaning clearly and concisely.
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