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.
A. 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.
B. 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.
C. 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.
D. 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.
E. 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.
以下是最新OG12上对该题的官方解释。希望能给困惑中的同学带来一点启示。
Rhetorical construction; Logical predication
This sentence explains that an executive who is blindly committed to a proven course of action is likely to overlook or misnterpret indicators that the plan may no longer be working. The sentence needs to make clear who may misinterpret these indicators.
A. THe passive construction causes the sentence to be wordy and confusing; the reference for it is ambiguous, leaving the reader with questions about who or what is likely to miss these signs.
B. THe sentence structure indicates that the executive, not his or her strategy, causes signs to be overlooked' the modifier when they do appear is misplaced.
C. The reference for the pronoun it is unclear because many nouns have intervened between the appearance of the logical referent( course of action) and it.
D. Misinterpreting should be an infinitive verb form to parallel miss; the phrasing throughout the sentence is wordy and awkward.
E. CORRECT. The grammatical structure of this sentence and the appropriate placement of modifiers expresses the meaning clearly and concisely.
The correct answer is E.
新东方老师说being是错误选项的标志，但这道题就是being开头，所以以前规律性的东西在GMAT里可能要逐渐被淡化，同学们做题时要谨慎啊。还有一题在白勇的书中解释和答案与新OG不同，现在想不起来了，待会儿找到了给贴出来。
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