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作者: lemonee 时间: 2003-9-10 02:00
标题: 885题－Sa-8
For most consumers, the price of automobile insurance continues to rise annually, even if free of damage claims and moving violations.
(A) even if
(B) despite being
(C) even if they are
(D) although they may be
(E) even if remaining

answer is C
My question is :what does "they "refer to? if "they" refer to consumers ,then consumers are free of damage claim? 为什么even if 的主语不是 price

thks

作者: braveMBA 时间: 2003-9-10 02:59
Here, "they" refers to consumers. You can not say "price is free of damage claim and moving violations", because "damage claim" and "moving violations" are actions of a person.

It is not very hard to exclude A,B,and E. But, actually, I am confused with C and D. The only reason I can exclude D is htat "may" is added, changing the tone of the sentence. But.....

作者: lemonee 时间: 2003-9-10 03:54

Thanks for your answer.

I am not hesitating between c and d .Cause I thougt D use" maybe "to present an assumption.Answer C use "are "to present a real condition .And actually, consumers have such right. Am I right?

作者: braveMBA 时间: 2003-9-10 04:43
Yes, I agree with you. Maybe the only reason.

作者: superstar 时间: 2004-2-21 23:28

以下是引用braveMBA在2003-9-10 2:59:00的发言：
Here, "they" refers to consumers. You can not say "price is free of damage claim and moving violations", because "damage claim" and "moving violations" are actions of a person.

yeah，i agree with you

作者: dally 时间: 2004-3-21 06:07
但是我觉得A很好啊，又简洁又直接表达了意思。为何不对呢？请大家帮我讲讲。谢谢

作者: JerryGuan 时间: 2004-3-27 18:54
moving violations

是什么意思啊？

作者: xx2004 时间: 2004-6-29 08:01

以下是引用dally在2004-3-21 6:07:00的发言：
但是我觉得A很好啊，又简洁又直接表达了意思。为何不对呢？请大家帮我讲讲。谢谢

因为这个句子的主语是price阿，如果从句的主语和谓语你都不补出，那说明这个从句的主语和逐句的主语是一样的阿，那就是price。但是price在逻辑上是不对的，所以A 错误。

个人意见。

作者: billion 时间: 2004-8-27 21:10

[But, actually, I am confused with C and D. The only reason I can exclude D is htat "may" is added, changing the tone of the sentence. But.....]

在条件状语从句中,although不放在句中

作者: cdoublesok 时间: 2005-3-27 19:09

158. With only 5 percent of the world’s population, United States citizens consume 28 percent of its nonrenewable resources, drive more than one-third of its automobiles, and use 21 times more water per capita than Europeans do.

(A) With

(B) As

(D) Despite having（E）

(E) Although accounting for

为什么这里是放句首的呀?

作者: ethyl 时间: 2005-4-3 03:03

GMAT里面有讲到although不可以方在句子中间吗？

词典里面随便查一下，都可以找到although位于句子中间的例子的，C关键还是改变了语气

作者: advantage 时间: 2005-9-16 09:01

以下是引用braveMBA在2003-9-10 2:59:00的发言：
Here, "they" refers to consumers. You can not say "price is free of damage claim and moving violations", because "damage claim" and "moving violations" are actions of a person.

It is not very hard to exclude A,B,and E. But, actually, I am confused with C and D. The only reason I can exclude D is htat "may" is added, changing the tone of the sentence. But.....

make sense!

作者: tinabeauty1984 时间: 2006-3-8 11:36
一针见血，真清楚

作者: xjlv128 时间: 2006-3-14 18:51
语气……被我遗忘……

作者: 当当84 时间: 2006-5-31 13:21

(E) even if remaining这个选项我有点弄不清，是因为如果用了remaining ,那么这句话的主语就变成了price 了吗？还有其他的原因吗？比如说不可以随意增加词remain?

作者: 当当84 时间: 2006-5-31 21:44

help!!

作者: doudouwin 时间: 2006-6-7 23:59

以下是引用billion在2004-8-27 21:10:00的发言：

[But, actually, I am confused with C and D. The only reason I can exclude D is htat "may" is added, changing the tone of the sentence. But.....]

在条件状语从句中,although不放在句中

有证据可寻吗？

作者: doudouwin 时间: 2006-6-8 00:03

以下是引用lemonee在2003-9-10 2:00:00的发言：
For most consumers, the price of automobile insurance continues to rise annually, even if free of damage claims and moving violations.
(A) even if
(B) despite being
(C) even if they are
(D) although they may be
(E) even if remaining

answer is C
My question is :what does "they "refer to? if "they" refer to consumers ,then consumers are free of damage claim? 为什么even if 的主语不是 price

thks

请问even if they are free of damage claims and moving violations. 中文怎么翻译啊？没怎么读懂

作者: smileday 时间: 2006-7-14 16:14

以下是引用doudouwin在2006-6-8 0:03:00的发言：

请问even if they are free of damage claims and moving violations. 中文怎么翻译啊？没怎么读懂

ding...

作者: lisa2003wang 时间: 2006-8-9 08:31

这后半句话其实意思没有看明白．

是什么意思呢？

作者: lyrics 时间: 2006-8-18 01:10

usually an auto insurer will adjust upwards the premium to the insured if he or she experiences accident/ damange/ violation of traffic rules in the previous year. This adjustment is based on the change of the actuarial assumption arising from the new informatio flow of the insured.

In the problem. if the driver is a 100% good driver, insurnace still gets more expensive - thus there is other reason for the price adjustment.

So C is definitely right. for D - may be is meaningless.

作者: 盈儿 时间: 2006-8-28 09:26

大家都忽略了一个重要的point

free of-not having or suffering from something unpleasant

即:不受某事物影响

A even if是完全可以的

这里是状语从句的省略,从句中省略和主句主语相同的主语,同时省略系动词

For most consumers, the price of automobile insurance continues to rise annually, even if (the price is)free of damage claims and moving violations.

一家之言,open to discussion

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作者: tyr800 时间: 2006-9-14 13:17
顶！！～～～free of的主语必须是price,没什么好说的.　必须选A.　朋友们despite being 的绝对错误是什么依据来着？我ＱＱ是１３０１３６８００希望知道的兄弟姐妹告诉一声～

作者: pangpangshin 时间: 2007-6-10 21:53
请问despite being这种结构对么？

作者: 荷叶田田 时间: 2007-12-18 14:46
错的啊，黄金规则里面有讲

作者: yingwu12 时间: 2009-3-14 09:50
D is correct as 代词"they" refers to "damage claims and moving volations". "although"引导了一个倒装，可以这样来理解这个转折短语although damage claims and moving volations maybe free.逻辑上，price不是 free的,claims是free的。

作者: hammyhui 时间: 2009-5-15 05:06

A moving violation is any violation of the law committed
by the driver of a vehicle while it is in motion. The term "motion" distinguishes it from other violations such as parking violations, equipment violations, or paperwork violations relating to insurance, registration, inspection, etc.

这道题有文化背景歧视。

作者: lijiahui0422 时间: 2009-7-17 12:18
26楼的mm真是厉害...倒装也得讲点规矩呢，有点胡来了...其实句意明白助于没啥好说的，是consumers,保险么，claims 是索赔的意思，moving violation 是故意造成损失的意思，然后就清楚多了
即便是这些consumers 又没索赔有没故意的造成损失，保费还是上升了（正常来说不出险保费应该下降的） price 当主语说不通

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