以下是引用leo_lin_007在2007-6-23 14:41:00姆⒀裕?lt;/b>
大全606 S19-7
7. Research during the past several decades on the nature of language and the processes that produce and make it understandable has revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity.
(A) that produce and make it understandable has revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity
(B) of producing and understanding it have revealed not underlying simplicity but great complexity
(C) by which it is produced and understood has revealed not underlying simplicity but great complexity
(D) by which it is produced and understood have revealed great complexity rather than underlying simplicity
(E) by which one produces and understands it have revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity
问了一个老外,他对GMAT没什么了解,仅仅从语感和考题的目的出发。他选择了A.原因如下:
1、A是更加common的回答,while C是一个更formal的回答 GMAT is a testing of formal English, not common street English.
2、A是北美英语更加倾向的回答,主动,有力而且直接,而C是一个有些太正式而显得wordy的回答,比较British英语化 A 的问题是produce的宾语是什么? make it understandable 的it 有unstandable在右边, 就不算produce的宾语了. C is not the perfect answer, but it doesn't have fatal problems.
3、A的弱点是instead of,他说老美确实不喜欢instead of,更宁愿用rather than,因为前者有点太随便。这里it就是要省略,念起来顺;C的弱点除了by
which(下面讲),还有就是not...but结构,这个结构给他的感觉好像上来是reveal的是自己不要的然后才是要的,感觉很差,就这点,配合
it is produced and understood,给他的感觉很weak。看来ETS所说的主动优先有道理,比较美国化as far as GMAT concerns, N. + instead of + N. is 100% correct