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Faulty voting equipment, confusing ballots, voter error, and problems at polling places have been cited by a new study of the 2000 United States presidential election, which estimated that they did not count 4 million to 6 million of the 100 million votes cast.
A. Faulty voting equipment, confusing ballots, voter error, and problems at polling places have been cited by a new study of the 2000
estimated that they did not count 4 million to 6 million of the 100 million votes cast.
B. Citing faulty voting equipment, confusing ballots, voter error, and problems at polling places, a new study of the 2000
C. Citing faulty voting equipment, confusing ballots, voter error, and problems at polling places, 4 million to 6 million of the 100 million votes cast were not counted in the 2000 United States presidential election, a new study estimates.
D. A new study has cited faulty voting equipment, confusing ballots, voter error, and problems at polling places in estimating that 4 million to 6 million of the 100 million votes that were cast had not been counted in the 2000
E. A new study of the 2000
这一题做错了,搜讨论历史发现没有,那我来开个帖子吧
在google上搜了一下,别的网站上讨论过,我参考一下来分析,大家看看分析是否正确
A:which应指代study,不应指代election;they指代不清
B:正确
C:分次citing的逻辑主语变成了4 million to 6 million ,错
D:我错选了D,看他们讨论基本是认为不应该用过去完成时
E:过去完成时错;estimated后面的宾语从句后面少了引导词that
附几个外网的解释:
搜到的新东方的王少华老师的解释:A的they指代不清楚,C的Citing是分词省略结构,主语应该是study。D错误地使用了过去完成时had not been counted,E的estimated后面的宾语从句后面少了引导词that。
一个外国人的解释:
A. which has no concrete reference, and they is vague.
B.
Correct Choice.
C.
Wrong verb tense and the use of “a new study estimates” at the end is awkward.
D.
Votes that, had not been are redundant.
E.
Had not been is not correct.
另一个外国人的详细解释:D/E的思路跟上面不同,我没看明白
the "which" is suboptimal here, because it may also be taken to modify the election itself. i'm not sure, though, whether the gmat would label it as outright wrong.
by far the most grievous error in this choice is "they", which doesn't refer to anything. it's also among the easiest things to spot, too; basically, you should keep a close eye on ANY pronoun that you see in a sentence.
correct answer.
the initial subject-less modifier modifies the immediately following noun (a new study), as required.
there are no pronoun problems.
the initial modifier doesn't have a subject, so it is attributed to the immediately following noun. unfortunately, in this case the immediately following noun is "4m to 6m of the ... votes", which makes no sense.
the placement of "cast" vis-à-vis "in the election" also doesn't make sense here; those two are dissociated from each other. the wording of the sentence seems to imply that the votes were simply "cast" - not in this or that election, but just "cast" - and that they simply "weren't counted in the 2000 election". the literal interpretation is that the votes may still have counted in some other election.
analogy:
many of the drinks at the party were not consumed --> nobody drank them, ever.
many of the drinks were not consumed at the party --> they may have been consumed later.
same problem.
the biggest problem is the relative placement of "cast" vis-à-vis "in the election", described in detail for choice (c) above.
"that were" is also wordy and can be removed without consequence.
when a subject phrase contains a prepositional modifier, you can't insert the verb between the noun and the modifier. at best it's nonsensical (as in this example), and at worst it changes the meaning of the sentence:
my friend from florida came to the bar --> he's originally from florida
my friend came to the bar from florida --> 3000 miles is a long, long way to go for some beers.
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另一个外国人的详细解释:D/E的思路跟上面不同,我没看明白
the biggest problem is the relative placement of "cast" vis-à-vis "in the election", described in detail for choice (c) above.
"that were" is also wordy and can be removed without consequence.
呵呵 我看懂了 分享如下:
D的错误:
(1)最大的错误:把原句子里"of the 2000 United States presidential election" 变成了"in the 2000 United States presidential election" (cast had not been counted in the 2000.....),改变了句意。原句子意思是说"2000年大选的一个研究如何如何",D选项改变后的意思是说“在2000年的大选中,选票没有被统计”,言外之意是在其他年代的(比如2009年)的大选中选票被统计了!这篡改了原句子意思。错误。
Ron (http://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/post20939.html#p20939 顺便说一下,这个曼哈顿的GMAT论坛很好,我前面就浪费了很多的时间去G,看每道题都很费时间——新Prep一天搞20个SC可能6-7个小时就没了!后来明白了,直接在上面的这个链接里看RON——一个GMAT老师 的解答,没有的或者再结合CD,时间紧的话最好不要一下子陷在D的讨论里 太费时间 而且很多也说的不清楚,最好直接看Ron的,有种看OG解释的感觉 简单明确完整 专业。这个论坛好在CD里面也有人提到。)还举了拉斯维加斯结婚的例子 说的也是这个问题。
my friend got married in Las Vegas --> my friend could live anywhere in the world, but he went to Las Vegas for his wedding.
my friend in Las Vegas got married --> my friend, who lives in Las Vegas, got married. (we don't know where the wedding took place)
(2)D的另外一个错误:"votes that were cast"中的"that were"多余,可以去掉。直接用过去分词cast修饰votes.
我刚刚还想在下面那个帖子上问为什么B错E对呢~谢谢啦
GMAC相关题型好像比较喜欢用这样的结构Doing……,sth……,do……
我刚刚还想在下面那个帖子上问为什么B错E对呢~谢谢啦
GMAC相关题型好像比较喜欢用这样的结构Doing……,sth……,do……
"B错E对"?这道题是B对E错啊
说的是一个题吗?呵呵
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