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标题: 看了小安的新题总结后有一题不太明白谢谢解答！ [打印本页]

作者: lisaislisa 时间: 2003-9-22 16:37
标题: 看了小安的新题总结后有一题不太明白谢谢解答！
10.Young female ballet dancers and gymnasts sometimes fail to maintain good eating habits caused by the desire to be as thin as possible.
A. Young female ballet dancers and gymnasts sometimes fail to maintain good eating habits caused by the desire to be as thin as possible
B. Good eating habits sometimes fail to be maintained by young female ballet dancers and gymnasts caused by desiring to be as thin as possible
C. Because they desire to be as thin as possible, good eating habits are sometimes not maintained by young female ballet dancers and gymnasts
D. Because they desire to be as thin as possible, young female ballet dancers and gymnasts sometimes fail to maintain good eating habits
E. Young female dancers and gymnasts sometimes fail to maintain good eating habits because they desire to be as thin as possible

作者: lisaislisa 时间: 2003-9-22 16:40
我选了E
答案是B ，可觉得这个caused by desiring to be as thin as possible还是修饰不明确呀。
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Rgd from
Lisa in SH

作者: braveMBA 时间: 2003-9-22 21:09
答案应该是D。

作者: givemeahome 时间: 2003-9-23 15:37
答案是E, D 的ballet dancers and gymnasts 有歧义

作者: jq_jou 时间: 2003-9-24 10:41
标题: 请问: 小安的新题总结在哪儿?
给个LINK好不好? 谢谢

作者: braveMBA 时间: 2003-9-24 10:46

以下是引用givemeahome在2003-9-23 15:37:00的发言：
答案是E, D 的ballet dancers and gymnasts 有歧义

有什么歧义？E呢？habits的歧义更大，同时E也没有解决D存在的歧义问题。当从句在句首，其代词指代主句主语所引发的歧义，要比在主句后同主句中多个复数名词所引发的歧义相对要小，因为位置的原因。

作者: lizaz 时间: 2003-9-24 12:36
题目没打错吗？如E中ballet应该是漏掉的。
D的句子强调重心改变了，应该不对。
B跟A的区别是把主动变成了被动，让caused紧跟young female ballet dancers and gymnasts，但caused的发出者应该是前面的整个句子，这样B的改动一样没有表达清楚原句的意思。
个人倾向于选E。

作者: givemeahome 时间: 2003-9-24 14:43
D. Because they desire to be as thin as possible, young female ballet dancers and gymnasts sometimes fail to maintain good eating habits
E. Young female dancers and gymnasts sometimes fail to maintain good eating habits because they desire to be as thin as possible

这两句的they 都指代 Young female dancers and gymnasts 或 young female ballet dancers and gymnasts 从修饰的角度看可以说yong female gymnasts 但不可说 yong female ballet gymnasts. 既然they 指代集合名词这个集合名词不该受重视吗

作者: dandan74 时间: 2003-9-24 14:57
感觉是E, 因为句子的重心是在说fail, 原因应该放在后面。

作者: gemj 时间: 2003-9-24 17:34

以下是引用jq_jou在2003-9-24 10:41:00的发言：
给个LINK好不好? 谢谢

http://forum.chasedream.com/dispbbs.asp?boardID=22&ID=12763

作者: felix2816 时间: 2003-9-24 23:16
I don't think that D has some difference with E, since if you "they" have no explicit antedote in answer D, so answer E has the same problem.
but B is absolutely not the right answer.

作者: braveMBA 时间: 2003-9-24 23:26
A question:

Two artists, three writers, and four poets attend the meeting, because they are certainly human beings.

THEY指代什么？似乎不能说有歧义吧，我还是那个观点，从逻辑意思看，看句子想表达什么。否则英语没法表达复杂的意思，变得累赘。

Young female dancers and gymnasts 明显是一类人，因为fail to maintain good eating habits
这是他们共同的动作。

E的问题在于那个和BECAUSE接近的HABITS混淆了THEY的指代，因为位置靠近。D避免了这个问题。

作者: givemeahome 时间: 2003-9-25 01:37
D. Because they desire to be as thin as possible, young female ballet dancers and gymnasts sometimes fail to maintain good eating habits
E. Young female dancers and gymnasts sometimes fail to maintain good eating habits because they desire to be as thin as possible

这里的they不可能指代habbits, 从句中的代词指代主句主语是一个比教条的代词就近指代更普遍的规律尤其当这种指代很明显时

D中的yong female 要不要修饰gymnasts??? 如果要，那么这个ballet 不显得模糊吗

作者: braveMBA 时间: 2003-9-25 01:54
young female [ballet dancers] and [gymnasts]

gymnasts不可能被BALLET修饰。

作者: dandan74 时间: 2003-9-25 04:29
I have found the answer key of the first quetion. It looks like the answer is D.
This is not a real GMAT question and this question is from a practicing materal called "GMAT+". However, a lot of people have found errors in the answer key.
Hopefully this one is correct.

作者: braveMBA 时间: 2003-9-25 04:37
dandan , how about the other subjects? Does GMAT+ include all of them?

作者: joice 时间: 2003-9-25 04:52
are these questions from 885? or XDF?

作者: braveMBA 时间: 2003-9-25 05:23
小安真题。

作者: dandan74 时间: 2003-9-25 07:41
I actually did a search in yahoo and found a GMAT discussion group. Somebody was discussing the same question and arguing between D and E. A guy said he had the answer key, however he said there were known errors in the answer key. So hopefully the answer for this one is correct. It seems that even the native Americans are confused by the answer E.

作者: sbbi 时间: 2003-9-25 22:42
i vote for D! Comrade braveMBA 在娘子军的包围下好艰苦呀.支持!

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