标题: OG12 93 [打印本页] 作者: 加州女孩 时间: 2010-4-20 20:13 标题: OG12 93 93.Heating-oil prices are expected to be higher this year than last because refiners are paving about S5 a barrel more for crude oil than thev were last year. (A)Heating-oil prices are expected to be higher this year than last because refiners are paying about $5 a barrel more for crude oil than they were (B)Heating-oil prices are expected to rise higher this year over last because refiners pay about $5 a barrel for crude oil more than they did (C)Expectations are for heating-oil prices to be higher this year than last year's because refiners are paying about $5 a barrel for crude oil more than they did
(D)It is the expectation that heating-oil prices will be higher for this year over last because refiners are paying about $5 a barrel more for crude oil now than what they were (E)It is expected that heating-oil prices will rise higher this year than last year's because refiners pay about $5 a barrel for crude oil more than they did 关于这个题 很多人都讨论过 但是没见大家探讨一下为什么A选项最后不用than they did。我的理解是：今年是are paying,应该是将要发生的 所以这里的are是助动词，但是后面的than they( )last year,应该不是than they were paying last year 吧，所以我觉得应该是than they paid 所以不应该是than they did 吗？作者: 加州女孩 时间: 2010-4-20 22:38
自己顶一个，期待牛牛赐教吖~作者: fylonglong 时间: 2010-4-20 23:12
为什么LZ感觉用are paying就是表示将要发生的事呢？作者: 加州女孩 时间: 2010-4-20 23:18 标题: OG12 93 即使表示进行时，那后面平行的也是进行时，但是过去进行时在这里感觉不合适吧than they were paying?作者: fylonglong 时间: 2010-4-20 23:28
refiners are paying 表示refiners现在正在paying，而比较是跟上一年同一时间作比较。那么上一年同一时间refiner在干吗呢？应该也在paying吧。作者: 切尔西 时间: 2010-4-21 09:19
这个感觉应该因为前面是现在进行时，后面对应的就应该是过去进行时吧，否则时态上不能形成对称吧，另外这个选项也是5里面最好的一个作者: purple_soul_m 时间: 2010-4-27 12:07
refiners are paying 表示refiners现在正在paying，而比较是跟上一年同一时间作比较。那么上一年同一时间refiner在干吗呢？应该也在paying吧。
八年后再来回复一下，对比中时态不一致是可以的，参考曼哈顿SC 比较的那个章节，B真正错误的在其他的地方，摘自gmatclub:
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(A) Heating-oil prices are expected to be higher this year than last because refiners are paying about $5 a barrel more for crude oil than they were
The pronoun “they” always jumps off the page at me, and in this case, it seems to refer to “refiners”, the most recent plural. That’s fine.
I’m also OK with the comparison: “refiners are paying… more for crude oil than they were [paying] last year.” I don't think that it’s ideal, but it’s definitely not wrong, and the GMAT would argue that the word “paying” is implied after “were.” Again, I’m not crazy about it, but it conveys the meaning clearly enough.
So let’s keep (A), I guess.
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(B) Heating-oil prices are expected to rise higher this year over last because refiners pay about $5 a barrel for crude oil more than they did
The phrase “expected to rise higher this year over last” is definitely a mess. You would never say that prices “rise higher.” They either just rise, or they just ARE higher. I’m also not sure why we would use “over last” instead of “than last.”
The placement of “more” is also really confusing. “More” modifies “pay about $5 a barrel”, and there’s no good reason to stick the word “more” so far away from the phrase it logically modifies.
But for whatever it’s worth: “they” still seems to refer perfectly reasonably to “refiners.” And the word “did” replaces the verb “pay” (or “paid”, since “did” is past tense). So those things are OK.
But I don’t think we can get over the silly placement of “more” and the "rise higher" mess at the beginning of the sentence. So (B) is out.
