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作者: 云上的日子bj 时间: 2008-6-24 20:21
标题: Prep-2-33

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Like the great navigators who first sailed around the Earth, to gather information about its size and curvature of its surface, new observations have been made by astronomers that show with startling directness the large-scale geometry of the universe.

(A) Like the great navigators who first sailed around the Earth, to gather information about its size and curvature of its surface, new observations have been made by astronomers

(B) Like the great navigators who first sailed around the Earth for gathering information about its size and also the curvature of its surface, new observations have been made by astronomers

(C) Similar to the great navigators who first sailed around the Earth, where they gathered information about its size and the curvature of its surface, astronomers have made new observations

(D) Like the great navigators who first sailed around the Earth gathering information about its size and the curvature of its surface, astronomers have made new observations

(E) Just as with the great navigators who first sailed around the Earth, gathering information about its size and curvature of the surface, astronomers have made new observations

D中现代分词结构gathering information的前面没有逗号，为什么不可以理解为修饰其紧邻的earth，而是修饰主语navigator?

作者: 云上的日子bj 时间: 2008-6-26 07:12
为啥没人回呀？下周要考啦，NN多谢指点呀。。。

作者: nemo11 时间: 2008-6-26 09:44

我觉得还是看逻辑意思吧，gathering修饰earth意思上也讲不通阿，所以只能修饰invigator了。

欢迎拍拍

作者: liushining6 时间: 2008-6-26 16:16
I think this could be extended and interpretated into sb. do sth. while doing something??

作者: ParisTexas 时间: 2008-6-26 19:28
我们说有歧义,是在逻辑意思MAKE SENSE的前提下, 逻辑上NONSENSE的歧义,那叫找茬,不是改错.

作者: tim_zyb 时间: 2008-6-26 22:51

不过很多是不是都因为逻辑does not make sense 所以认定是指代错误呢？

[此贴子已经被作者于2008-6-27 11:52:19编辑过]

作者: yuzhimin_sh 时间: 2008-7-4 11:56

I think 'D' is wrong,

1/ normally 'gathering 'modify the 'the earth',

2/ if 'gathering' modify the navigator( although I don't think it can), the sentence ' like navigators gathering....astronomers ' the subject can't be compared.

' C' looks better,

1/ why 'similar to' can't be put in the beginning of sentence ?

2/ where is OK, although the sentense doesn't state 'gather on earth', we can infer from navigators-definitely they do everything on earth

作者: brass20y 时间: 2008-7-4 15:31

这题只能选D

similiar to不能放句首

作者: Tracylee03 时间: 2008-7-22 22:07

我也想不通关于D中现代分词结构gathering information的前面没有逗号，为什么不可以理解为修饰其紧邻的earth，而是修饰主语navigator做伴随状语??看了以上的回答,似乎未能解决.

作者: batmanhm 时间: 2008-7-22 22:14

(D) Like
the great navigators {who first sailed around the Earth[gathering information (about its size and the curvature of its surface)]}, astronomers have made new observations

Like A,B...

作者: Tracylee03 时间: 2008-7-22 22:21
谢谢,不过我的问题是在于gathering 为什么不会造成歧义,既可以修饰earth 也可以修饰动词sail做伴随状语.

作者: batmanhm 时间: 2008-7-22 22:26

around the Earth应该是状语吧，肯定优先修饰谓语的

说错了别怪我。。。

作者: lichabrend 时间: 2008-8-3 23:53
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作者: AlienX 时间: 2008-9-9 10:28
頂一下...做時沒注意, 回頭看很奇怪...

作者: smartsky11 时间: 2009-3-6 16:07
为

作者: smartsky11 时间: 2009-3-6 16:11
还是不明白，我认为会有歧义的gathering

作者: IanV 时间: 2009-8-9 11:10

以下是引用batmanhm在2008/7/22 22:26:00的发言：

around the Earth应该是状语吧，肯定优先修饰谓语的

说错了别怪我。。。

为啥优先修饰谓语呢？不过倒是好理解多了

作者: alibaba_2009 时间: 2009-8-11 08:26
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作者: alibaba_2009 时间: 2009-8-11 09:30
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作者: alibaba_2009 时间: 2009-8-11 09:33
similar to应该是表示特征相似；表示方式不应该用similar to；不带逗号的分词不能作状语吧。相对来说，D更有效。open to discuss

作者: carlosh 时间: 2010-11-26 09:15
今天找到了以前的贴，看了所有的回答都没有解决问题，为什么gathering前面没有逗号一直困扰我！！！没有逗号应该不能作状语吧？还有求问E选项的错误just as with的正确用法！

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