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作者: yzlinlin 时间: 2003-10-23 08:20
标题: [求助] sc885 sec A-18
18. To maintain a high demand for their product, the manufacturers first took over the marketing and sales functions previously performed by outside agents; next, they began changing their advertising campaigns monthly to keep pace with the rapid changes in consumers’ lives.
(A) they began changing
(B) this began changing
(C) the former began changing
(D) to begin changing
(E) to change

答案A。

我想问： C错在哪儿？虽然C念起来觉得别扭，但其the former 的使用是否比they更清晰呢？

作者: gemj 时间: 2003-10-23 10:36
首先，这个THEY跟主句的主语是一致的，用THEY清晰有效，没有必要用THE FORMER来替换;

其次，THE FORMER一般用来指代并列成份中的前一个，而本句中并无并列成份。关于这一点，请看所有阅读中所出现的所有的例子：

The simultaneous progress of cathedral building and, for instance, vineyard expansion in Bordeaux illustrates the very real competition for available capital between the Church and commercial interests; the former produced inestimable moral and artistic riches, but the latter had a stronger immediate impact upon gross national product.

Perhaps one reason for this is that molecular biologists and morphologists speak different languages. Whereas the former speak about messenger-RNA and conformational changes of protein molecules, the latter speak of ectoderms, hypoblasts, and neural crests.

20. The “dramatic gains for women” (line 5) and the attitude, as described in lines 11-12, of a “significant portion of the larger society” are logically related to each other inasmuch as the author puts forward the latter as
(A) a public response to achievement of the former
(B) the major reason for absence of the former
(C) a precondition for any prospect of achieving the former
(D) a catalyst for a further extension of the former
(E) a reason for some of the former being lost again

26. Which of the following best describes the relationship between the structure of liquid metals and the structure of glassy metals, as it is presented in the passage?
(A) The latter is an illustrative example of the former.
(B) The latter is a large-scale version of the former.
(C) The former is a structural elaboration of the latter.
(D) The former provides an instructive contrast to the latter.
(E) The former is a fair approximation of the latter.

Though a detailed account of work in the packing-houses is attempted, the author fails to distinguish between the wages and conditions for skilled workers and for those unskilled laborers who comprised the majority of the industry’s workers from the 1880’s on. While conditions for the former were arguably tolerable due to the strategic importance of skilled workers in the complicated slaughtering, cutting, and packing process (though worker complaints about the rate and conditions of work were frequent), pay and conditions for the latter were wretched.

The word democracy may stand for a natural social equality in the body politic or for a constitutional form of government in which power lies more or less directly in the people’s hand. The former may be called social democracy and the later democratic government.

Medievalists usually distinguish medieval public law from private law: the former was concerned with government and military affairs and the latter with the family, social status, and land transactions.

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作者: yzlinlin 时间: 2003-10-24 02:05
gemj,对你的思维清晰、快速、高效无限佩服当中。谢谢。

作者: gemj 时间: 2003-10-24 03:47
过奖了，谢谢！

作者: joywzy 时间: 2003-11-29 12:50
感谢GEMJ！这就是这题的关键：THE FORMER一般用来指代并列成份中的前一个，而本句中并无并列成份

作者: sweetcorn 时间: 2004-1-18 17:47
gemjGG简直太不可思议啊~~~~

作者: ethyl 时间: 2005-5-7 15:49
狂admiring中

作者: ethyl 时间: 2005-5-7 15:52

开始，俺觉得they会指代outside agents

答案中之所以还是用了they，是不是因为有first、nesx并列，所以they优先指代the manufacturers啊？

作者: ethyl 时间: 2005-5-7 15:53

现在版上还有像gemj这样的人吗？

作者: ogram 时间: 2005-7-7 18:01
同意8楼的猜测

作者: ogram 时间: 2005-7-7 18:02
更喜欢8楼的签名档：）

作者: Sophiallw 时间: 2005-8-25 10:06

以下是引用ethyl在2005-5-7 15:52:00的发言：

答案中之所以还是用了they，是不是因为有first、nesx并列，所以they优先指代the manufacturers啊？

同意ethyl的假设.

从逻辑意思上来讲,they的确应该指代the manufacturers .

作者: xjlv128 时间: 2006-3-14 19:21
哦……

作者: konson 时间: 2006-5-12 21:44

以下是引用ethyl在2005-5-7 15:52:00的发言：

开始，俺觉得they会指代outside agents

答案中之所以还是用了they，是不是因为有first、nesx并列，所以they优先指代the manufacturers啊？

同意！！

gemj 不愧为nn啊！佩服！

作者: cattsky 时间: 2006-8-23 20:45

困惑：听新东方的时候，老师强调答案中带有代词的通常为错误选项。但是做大全做着做着就发觉越来越多题目不是这样了。

大家有何看法呢？

作者: duncan1201 时间: 2006-10-22 12:27
trillions of thanks, gemj

作者: CD用户174382 时间: 2007-1-14 18:03
我也错了...听了XDF，名词替换代词是正确答案的标志...哎...

作者: 荷叶田田 时间: 2007-12-18 15:26
有begin doing这样的用法吗？我这题一直在这里纠结的说~

作者: heritta 时间: 2008-9-15 11:02

begin to do 和begin doing 的区别

在百度搜到的,http://zhidao.baidu.com/question/2580345.html?fr=qrl

begin to do something 和begin doing something都有表示"开始干什么事情"的意思, 但是有不同

begin doing something特别指很强烈的持续性.比如:

He began smoking three years ago(他三年前开始抽烟)既开始养成习惯

This year the rainy season came earlier than before, it began raining in June(今年的雨季比以前来的早,在六月就下雨了)

begin to do something 表示一件事情的开端,持续与否不重用. 比如:
It's beginning to rain, we had better hurry home(下雨了,我们快回家吧)

At first it was only drizzling, but soon it began to rain heavily(开头只下毛毛雨,可是不久就大起来啦),这里不宜说but soon it began raining heavily.

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