老prep2-29 B项错误之谜（比较长~） - ChaseDream

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Unlike many United States cities, where a river is no longer the focal point of urban life, the river in San Antonio winds through the middle of the business district, and the River Walk, or Paseo del Rio, is the city's most popular attraction.

(A) Unlike many United States cities, where a river is no longer the focal point of urban life, the river in San Antonio

(D) In few United States cities today, a river is the focal point of urban life, but the river in San Antonio

(E) No longer do many cities in the United States have a river as the focal point of urban life, but in San Antonio the river

OA：E。

prep笔记的解释：

(A) unlike连接比较对象不平行，cities和river。
(B) which指代United States错误，应该指代river。
(C) unlike一般不置于句中，容易产生对比歧义；it指代错误，在逻辑上不能指代前面的river。
(D)去掉no longer，把全部否定变成部分否定，改变了原句意思。
(E)正确，but连接并列的分句，不需要形式上完全对等。

prep笔记认为B错在which指代错误。当时我也觉得river离which有2个修饰成分，太远了。所以不行。

然而，我今天发现了这么一个OG例句：
OG 114.
From the bark of the paper birch tree the Menomini crafted a canoe about twenty feet long and two feet wide, with small ribs and rails of cedar, which could carry four persons or eight hundred pounds of baggage so light that a person could easily portage it around impeding rapids.

(A) baggage so light

(B) baggage being so light

(E) baggage yet was so light

这道题里的which指代又是什么呢？很明显，根据句意，which指代canoe。
请看他们离了多远啊！
这意味着which完全可以跳跃2个修饰成分指代！！

那么，我的疑问就是在第一题中，B错在哪呢？

我觉得关于which的指代你得根据语义和逻辑意思来。。

PREP上这题 which如果指代the United States说the United States is no longer the focal point of urban life，我觉得是可以成立的。。于是这就产生了歧义。。这才是GMAT SC不允许的。

而OG上这题， a canoe （about twenty feet long and two feet wide, with small ribs and rails of cedar,） which could carry four persons or eight hundred pounds of baggage so light that a person could easily portage it around impeding rapids.
which往前看，除了canoe能carry four persons以外你还能找到一个名词说它能carry four persons吗～

SC还是语义为王的～

-- by 会员 stellina (2010/12/11 13:14:28)