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作者: chenguangwj 时间: 2007-12-15 06:13
标题: 请教GWD-12-Q19

Heavy commitment by an executive to a course of action, especially if it has worked well in the past, makes it likely to miss signs of incipient trouble or misinterpret them when they do appear.

Heavy commitment by an executive to a course of action, especially if it has worked well in the past, makes it likely to miss signs of incipient trouble or misinterpret them when they do appear.
An executive who is heavily committed to a course of action, especially one that worked well in the past, makes missing signs of incipient trouble or misinterpreting ones likely when they do appear.
An executive who is heavily committed to a course of action is likely to miss or misinterpret signs of incipient trouble when they do appear, especially if it has worked well in the past.
Executives’ being heavily committed to a course of action, especially if it has worked well in the past, makes them likely to miss signs of incipient trouble or misinterpreting them when they do appear.
Being heavily committed to a course of action, especially one that has worked well in the past, is likely to make an executive miss signs of incipient trouble or misinterpret them when they do appear.

答案C，但觉得C中的it指代有问题，哪位高人能告诉我it到底指代什么？

作者: Icanw 时间: 2007-12-15 07:13

我当初研究的结果是选E。C 中的it指代却有歧义，句意应该指 a course of action，可语法上指代不清楚.

虽然being 一般情况下不招人喜欢，可是prep中也有being 结构作主语的例子，而且我考试中也遇到了非选being 的题目。

作者: racing78 时间: 2007-12-15 11:37

個人認為C的it就是指代a course of action,至於大家覺得有歧義的應該是覺得it

也可指trouble吧～我不認為有歧義，相較於其他四個選項，只有C最好，signs of trouble

的of trouble應該是修飾signs所以沒有指代歧義問題，open to discuss.

作者: Icanw 时间: 2007-12-18 06:26

C 中的 a course of action 是在定语从句中，而 it 是在与主句并列的条件句中，按语法来讲，应该不可以指代低一层结构中的名词。 open to discuss

作者: amy1028 时间: 2008-10-19 17:07

想请教一下B哪里错了呢?

作者: norda 时间: 2008-12-3 15:20

B中 especially one 应该是指代a course of action，但是在B中可能指代An executive ，故B不能选

作者: pwss 时间: 2009-7-26 16:25
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作者: songziwei 时间: 2015-10-9 21:50
感谢分享！

作者: morimori 时间: 2015-10-10 09:55
答案不是E吗。。这是我在论坛上搜到的汇总贴 http://forum.chasedream.com/thread-741595-1-1.html

以下是国外论坛大神的解释：
'it' is ambiguous, because it could potentially refer either to 'course of action' (the intended antecedent) or to 'incipient trouble'. also note that grammatical parallelism doesn't help: both of those possible antecedents are objects of prepositions - neither is the subject of its own clause (which would thereby create parallelism with 'it', which is the subject of its clause).

e is the best choice here. i cringe a bit at the use of 'being' - my first thought is that we could make the sentence better by using a noun, such as 'commitment' - but then you'd need some sort of possessive pronoun to show that it's the executive who's committed. in any case, (e) is definitely the best of the options here, none of which is perfect by any stretch.

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