103. Students in the metropolitan school district lack math skills to such a large degree as to make it difficult to absorb them into a city economy becoming ever more dependent on information-based industries.
(A) lack math skills to such a large degree as to make it difficult to absorb them into a city economy becoming
(B) lack math skills to a large enough degree that they will be difficult to absorb into a city’s economy that becomes
(C) lack of math skills is so large as to be difficult to absorb them into a city’s economy that becomes
(D) are lacking so much in math skills as to be difficult to absorb into a city’s economy becoming（E）
(E) are so lacking in math skills that it will be difficult to absorb them into a city economy becoming
这题OG给的解释说C的them有歧义. 指代skills 而非students. 我想问E, 为什么E在这里them没有指skills之嫌?? 我知道指代的优先规则是代词做从句主语优先指代主句主语. 可是这里的them是从句的宾语. 这也可以优先指代主句主语students??
而且我觉得，即使语法优先性指代主句主语了, 仍然不好. 有指代不清之嫌疑. 因为中间有skills. OG12的E中, ETS就是这么认为.请看:
12. Formulas for cash flow and the ratio of debt to equity do not apply to new small businesses in the same way as they do to established big businesses, because they are growing and are seldom in equilibrium.
(A) Formulas for cash flow and the ratio of debt to equity do not apply to new small businesses in the same way as they do to established big businesses, because they are growing and are seldom in equilibrium.
(B) Because they are growing and are seldom in equilibrium, formulas for cash flow and the ratio of debt to equity do not apply to new small businesses in the same way as they do to established big businesses.
(C) Because they are growing and are seldom in equilibrium, new small businesses are not subject to the same applicability of formulas for cash flow and the ratio of debt to equity as established big businesses.
(D) Because new small businesses are growing and are seldom in equilibrium, formulas for cash flow and the ratio of debt to equity do not apply to them in the same way as to established big businesses.
(E) New small businesses are not subject to the applicability of formulas for cash flow and the ratio of debt to equity in the same way as established big businesses, because they are growing and are seldom in equilibrium.
Finally, the referent of they is not immediately clear in E.
由优先性原则,they应该指主句主语new businesses. 但因为前面还有big business插入. 所以不是很清楚. ETS认为这样不好.
那么103E中的them 难道没有不清的嫌疑??
请指教!!!
103, OG的解释是them illogically refer to skills rather than students.这句话的意思是说them应该指代学生.但在C里面them指代了skills,在意思上不对
E确实有这样的问题,但是E是几个里面相对较好的一个
所以选E
继续问:
从句的代词做宾语也优先指主句的主语吗?
103的E.them做宾语
OG11 explain:
C The use of the noun lack results in an ungrammatical expression.
我的理解是，如果选C，the subject of the main clause will be confusing when "students"and "lack",which are nouns,exist at the same time.
C的them不可能指lack.
我还是想知道我的问题
从句的代词做宾语也优先指主句的主语吗?
103的E.them做宾语
我觉得逻辑意思为先
so...that,太...以至于
OG103,E答案,so lacking in math skills是修饰students的,所以that后的也是说的他们的情况,j即them指代students
而C中,so large不可能说students 是so large吧,是lack of math skills so large,后面代词有them有指代skills之嫌!
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