标题: [E]OG-28，请指点！ [打印本页] 作者: excellent 时间: 2004-1-18 18:14 标题: [E]OG-28，请指点！ 28. The rise in the Commerce Department's index of leading economic indicators suggest that the economy should continue its expansion into the coming months, but that the mixed performance of the index's individual components indicates that economic growth will proceed at a more moderate pace than in the first quarter of this year. A.suggest that the economy should continue its expansion into the coming months, but that B.suggest that the economy is to continue expansion in the coming months, but C.suggests that the economy will continue its expanding in the coming months, but that D.suggests that the economy is continuing to expand into the coming months, but that E.suggests that the economy will continue to expand in the coming months, but
请大家参考OG52题。 52. The rising of costs of data-processing operations at many financial institutions has created a growing opportunity for independent companies to provide these services more efficiently and at lower cost. A.The rising of costs B.Rising costs C.The rising cost D.Because the rising cost E.Because of rising costs
OG解释：C is the best choice. In choice A, The rising of costs is unidiomatic, and in B costs... has lacks subject-verb agreement. Choices D and E produce sentence fragments since Because makes the clause subordinate rather than independent.
如果答案A改为The rise of costs或The rise in costs是否正确？
作者: xiaoyue45084508 时间: 2004-1-18 23:44
因为rise有名词形式，就是rise，所以不用动名词。 而ETS喜欢用The rise in the Commerce Department's index 的方式来表达，还有在OG上常出现 increases in population而不用great population increases。记住这种表达方式。
