标题: 关于时间状语应该放在哪里的问题 [打印本页] 作者: xiongmaozone 时间: 2009-12-16 14:52 标题: 关于时间状语应该放在哪里的问题 请大牛赐教，时间状语到底放在哪里才比较不会产生歧义，做了好多题，一会儿说放这有歧义，一会儿说放那有歧义，都把我给弄蒙了~~~~作者: aeoluseros 时间: 2009-12-17 08:27
它一般修饰最近的那套主谓结构(有时候主谓结构也会转化为n.+ v.ing的形式，其中v.ing不是动名词)，以连词为分隔点...具体的情况还是要具体题目。大致就是连词和谓语动词是两座大山，修饰语基本上无法跳过去修饰。作者: xiongmaozone 时间: 2010-4-16 19:00
我有点明白了~~~thank you very much~~！！作者: xiongmaozone 时间: 2010-4-16 19:04
The delinquency rates on mortgages for office buildings, hotels, shopping malls, and other commercial properties held by the nation’s insurance companies in recent months have increased sharply, leading to predictions that foreclosures on these types of loan could double over the next three years.
(A) in recent months have increased sharply, leading to predictions that foreclosures on these types of loan could double over the next three years
(B) have increased sharply in recent months, leading to predictions that foreclosures on these types of loans could double over the next three years
(C) have increased sharply in recent months, leading to predictions that doubling of foreclosures on these types of loans could occur over the next three years
(D) has increased sharply in recent months, and lead to predictions that over the next three years doubling of foreclosures on this type of loan could occur（B）
(E) in recent months has increased sharply, and this leads to predictions that foreclosures on that type of loan in the next three years could double
United States petroleum industry’s cost to meet environmental regulations is projected at ten percent of the price per barrel of refined petroleum by the end of the decade
The
United States petroleum industry’s cost to meet environmental regulations is projected at ten percent of the price per barrel of refined petroleum by the end of the decade.错在cost to do而应该是cost of doing 这里by the end of the decade有歧义 price by the end of the decade 这里US petroleum industry的cost应该改成the cost to the US petroleum industry
It is estimated that by the end of the decade the cost to the United States petroleum industry of meeting environmental regulations will be ten percent of the price per barrel of refined petroleum.再看一遍 确实B更好更清楚 the cost to sb. of doing sth. 查了一下Longman 上面有She had kept her promise to Christine, but at what cost to herself? by the end of the decade不会产生歧义
By the end of the decade, the United States petroleum industry’s cost of meeting environmental regulations is projected at ten percent of the price per barrel of refined petroleum.同样the cost to the US petroleum industry of doing
To meet environmental regulations, the cost to the United States petroleum industry is estimated at ten percent of the price per barrel of refined petroleum by the end of the decade.改变了句意 to meet变成了目的状语
The United States petroleum industry’s cost by the end of the decade to meet environmental regulations is estimated at ten percent of the price per barrel of refined petroleum.the cost to the US petroleum of doing
这里的歧义是指又修饰refined。。又修饰主要谓语is？？ 然后提到is前面了，就无法跳到后面去修饰别的成分了，而且充分地贴近了谓语动词，修饰没歧义？作者: ozymendias 时间: 2010-9-22 10:26
也贴几道时间状语 53. According to the National Pasta Association, per-capita consumption of pasta in the United States, which has already been approaching 19 pounds a year, will achieve 30 pounds a year by the twenty-first century. (A) According to the National Pasta Association, per-capita consumption of pasta in the United States, which has already been approaching 19 pounds a year, will achieve 30 pounds a year by the twenty-first century. (B) Already approaching 19 pounds a year in the United States, the National Pasta Association predicts that per-capita consumption of pasta will reach 30 pounds a year by the twenty-first century. (C) The National Pasta association predicts by the twenty-first century that per-capita consumption of pasta in the United States, which is already approaching 19 pounds a year, will reach 30 pounds a year. (D) By the twenty-first century, the National Pasta Association predicts that per-capita consumption of pasta in the United States, having already approached 19 pounds a year, will reach 30 pounds a year. (E) According to the National Pasta Association, per-capita consumption of pasta in the United States is already approaching 19 pounds a year and will reach 30 pounds a year by the twenty-first century.（E）
542.Oberlin College in Ohio was a renegade institution at its 1833 founding for deciding to accept both men and women as students. (A) at its 1833 founding for deciding to accept (B) for the decision at its 1833 founding to accept (C) when it was founded in 1833 for its decision to accept (D) in deciding at its founding in 1833 to accept (E) by deciding at its founding in 1833 on the acceptance of（D）
GWD.Galileo did not invent the telescope, but on hearing, in 1609, that such an optical instrument had been made, he quickly built his own device from an organ pipe and spectacle lenses. A. Galileo did not invent the telescope, but on hearing, in 1609, that such an optical instrument had been made, he B. Galileo had not invented the telescope, but when he heard, in 1609, of such an optical instrument having been made, C. Galileo, even though he had not invented the telescope, on hearing, in1609, that such an optical instrument had been made, he D. Even though Galileo did not invent the telescope, on hearing, in 1609, that such an optical instrument had been made, Even though Galileo did not invent the telescope, but when he heard, 1609, of such an optical instrument being made, he 正确答案是A。in 1609放在了句子当中而没歧义？
9. Bringing the Ford Motor Company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War was a special governmentally sanctioned price increase during a period of wage and price controls. (A) Bringing the Ford Motor Company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War was a special governmentally sanctioned price increase during a period of wage and price controls. (B) What brought the Ford Motor Company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War was a special price increase that the government sanctioned during a period of wage and price controls. (C) That which brought the ford Motor Company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War was a special governmentally sanctioned price increase during a period of wage and price controls. (D) What has brought the Ford Motor Company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War was a special price increase that the government sanctioned during a period of wages and price controls.（B） (E) To bring the Ford Motor Company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War, there was a special price increase during a period of wages and price controls that government sanctioned.
580 Physicsprofessors, the Arnmore Laboratories and Arnmore Research Facilities werefounded by Leo and Fontove Arnmore in 1989 after ten years of fundraising. (A)the Arnmore Laboratories and Arnmore Research Facilities were founded by Leoand Fontove Arnmore in 1989 after ten years of fundraising (B)Leo and Fontove Arnmore founded the Arnmore Laboratories and Arnmore ResearchFacilities in 1989, after ten years of fundraising (C)after ten years of fundraising, the Arnmore Laboratories and Arnmore ResearchFacilities were founded by Leo and Fontove Arnmore in 1989 (D)the Arnmore Laboratories and Arnmore Research Facilities were founded in 1989by Leo and Fontove Arnmore after ten years of fundraising（B） (E) Leo and Fontove Arnmorefounded after ten years of fundraising the Laboratories and Arnmore ResearchFacilities in 1989
585 Promotions,retirements, deaths, and other actions approved by the board of directors atits May meeting will be reported in the July 15 issue of the company paper.
(A)Promotions, retirements, deaths, and other actions approved by the board ofdirectors at its May meeting will be reported in the July 15 issue of thecompany paper. (B)Promotions, retirements, and other actions which have been approved at the Maymeeting of the board of directors along with deaths, with be reported in the July15 issue of the company paper. (C)To be reported in the July 15 issue of the company paper are the promotions,retirements, deaths, and other actions which were approved at the board ofdirectors’ May meeting. (D)Meeting in May, the promotions, retirements, and other actions approved by theboard of directors, including obituaries, will be reported in the July 15 issueof the company paper.（E） (E) The July 15 issue ofthe company paper will report on promotions, retirements, and other actionsapproved by the board of directors at its May meeting; the paper will alsoinclude obituaries.
866Tinyquantities of more than thirty rare gases, most of them industrial by-products,threaten to warm the Earth’s atmosphere even more rapidly than carbondioxide during the next fifty years. (A)to warm the Earth’s atmosphere even more rapidly than carbon dioxide during the next fifty years (B)to warm the Earth’s atmosphere even more rapidly over the next fifty years than carbon dioxide will (C)during the next fifty years to warm the Earth’s atmosphere even more rapidly than carbon dioxide (D)a warming of the Earth’s atmosphere during the next fifty years even more rapid than carbon dioxide’s（B） (E) a warming of theEarth’s atmosphere even more rapid than carbon dioxide’s will be over the next fifty years
OG21.Neuroscientists, having amassed a wealth of knowledge over the past twenty years about the brain and its development from birth to adulthood, are now drawing solid conclusions about how the human brain grows and how babies acquire language. (A) Neuroscientists, having amassed a wealth of knowledge over the past twenty years about the brain and its development from birth to adulthood, are (B) Neuroscientists, having amassed a wealth of knowledge about the brain and its development from birth to adulthood over the past twenty years, and are (C) Neuroscientists amassing a wealth of knowledge about the brain and its development from birth to adulthood over the past twenty years, and are (D) Neuroscientists have amassed a wealth of knowledge over the past twenty years about the brain and its development from birth to adulthood, (E) Neuroscientists have amassed, over the past twenty years, a wealth of knowledge about the brain and its development from birth to adulthood, （A）
新prep208.Scientists who studiedthe famous gold field known as Serra Pelada concluded that the rich lode was notproduced by the accepted methods of ore formation but that swarms of microbesover millions of years concentrated the gold from jungle soils and riversand rocks. A.notproduced by the accepted methods of ore formation but that swarms of microbesover millions of years B.notproduced by the accepted methods of ore formation but instead swarms ofmicrobes over millions of years that C.notproduced by the accepted methods of ore formation but swarms of microbes overmillions of years that D.producednot by the accepted methods of ore formation but by swarms of microbes thatover millions of years (D) E. producednot by the accepted methods of ore formation but that swarms of microbes overmillions of years
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Concerns aboutpublic health led to the construction between 1876 and 1904 of three separatesewer systems to serve metropolitanBoston . A.Concernsabout public health led to the construction between 1876 and 1904 of threeseparate sewer systems to serve B.Concernsabout public health have led to the construction of three separate sewersystems between 1876 and 1904 to serve C.Concernsabout public health have led between 1876 and 1904 to the construction of threeseparate sewer systems for serving D.Therewere concerns about public health leading to the construction between 1876 and1904 of three separate sewer systems serving (A) E.Therewere concerns leading between 1876 and 1904 to the construction of threeseparate sewer systems for serving 这里between 1876 and 1904是修饰construction的
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The United Statesminted about 857 million silver-colored “Susan B. Anthony” dollars between 1979and 1981, but the coinproved unpopular because it looked and felt too much like a quarter. A.correct。这里的between 1979 and 1981做时间状语修饰minted。