31.Unlike the conviction held by many of her colleagues that genes were relatively simple and static, Barbara McClintock adhered to her own more complicated ideas about how genes might operate, and in 1983, at the age of 81, was awarded a Nobel Prize for her discovery that the genes in corn are capable of moving from one chromosomal site to another.
31.Unlike the conviction held by many of her colleagues that genes were relatively simple and static, Barbara McClintock adhered to her own more complicated ideas about how genes might operate, and in 1983, at the age of 81, was awarded a Nobel Prize for her discovery that the genes in corn are capable of moving from one chromosomal site to another.
(A) Unlike the conviction held by many of her colleagues that genes were
(B) Although many of her colleagues were of the conviction of genes being
(C) Contrary to many of her colleagues being convinced that genes were
(D) Even though many of her colleagues were convinced that genes were
(E) Even with many of her colleagues convinced of genes being
我觉得CDE都可以。。答案说C和E是wordy的，而且C是awkward，E是indirect。
这个解释让我觉得很难被说服。怎么才能判断一句话是否冗余、繁杂？
两点， 第一点一般有being就意味着wordy，因为为什么要用？ 第二点XDF老实说过although,though, even though优先大于contrary ,不知道真假
33. Because an oversupply of computer chips has sent prices plunging, the manufacturer has announced that it will cut production by closing its factories for two days a month.
(A) Because an oversupply of computer chips has sent prices plunging,
(B) Because of plunging prices for computer chips, which is due to an oversupply,
which不能指代前面整个句子，只能就近修饰prices，这点一定要切忌， GMAT经常考,再说because of, due to你看着不觉得别扭吗？？？
(C) Because computer chip prices have been sent plunging, which resulted from an oversupply,
(D) Due to plunging computer chip prices from an oversupply,
(E) Due to an oversupply, with the result that computer chip prices have been sent plunging,
另外补充一点， because接句子，because of 只能接词或词组， due to 也不能接句子，所以一般情况下优先选择because， XDF老师说的，不知道真假
关于B，解释说是因为which指代的是prices，可是我怎么觉得，which难道就不能指代prices在plunging这件事情么，于是就可以用单数的谓词了。。
关于C，答案说年代顺序是confusing的，然后which指代不明。。which不是就是指代前面那个句子么。。
关于D，解释说backward description of the events behind the announcement of factory closings is confusing and awkward。。汗。。木有看懂。。
-- by 会员 fay009 (2010/3/15 22:17:59)
31题。C being convinced可以直接用convinced表示，being convinced啰嗦了，
E. conviced of genes being simple and static。这里conviced后面接得是一个长修饰，因此用of从句引导没有用that从句简洁。单从e中，这个being应该也是可以省略。因为可以是simple and static genes。更加简洁。
我并不认为being出现就是错误的。因为你在看og很多选项答案的解析的时候，gmat自己也常用being这种结构。但是在being+done的结构中可以简化成done。在n+being+adj时可以简化成adj+n。望nn们指正。
-- by 会员 小花呱 (2011/8/5 22:29:42)
