标题: OG12---6 THEM 指代 [打印本页] 作者: xingxc11 时间: 2011-8-16 20:50 标题: OG12---6 THEM 指代 In late 1997, the chambers inside the pyramid of the Pharaoh Menkaure at Giza were closed to visitors for cleaning and repair due to moisture exhaled by tourists, which raised its humidity to such levels so that salt from the stone was crystallizing and fungus was growing on the walls. (A) due to moisture exhaled by tourists, which raised its humidity to such levels so that salt from the stone was crystallizing (B) due to moisture that tourists had exhaled, thereby raising its humidity to such levels that salt from the stone would crystallize (C) because tourists were exhaling moisture, which had raised the humidity within them to levels such that salt from the stone would crystallize (D) because of moisture that was exhaled by tourists raising the humidity within them to levels so high as to make the salt from the stone crystallize (E) because moisture exhaled by tourists had raised the humidity within them to such levels that salt from the stone was crystallizing 此题的问题是关于THEM的指代问题，OG解释CD说THEM可能指代TOURISTS,那为什么E选项就没有这个可能了呢？？ 为什么E中的THEM 就一定指代的是CHAMBERS呢？？
C Th e pronoun them seems to refer to tourists, which is nonsensical; the entire construction is awkward and wordy; would crystallize is not parallel to was growing. D Once again, them seems to refer to tourists; the entire construction is awkward, wordy, and ambiguous; crystallize is not parallel to was growing. E Correct. Th e causal sequence is clear, and them clearly refers to chambers.作者: 弗拉多 时间: 2011-8-16 21:03
mark 等NN作者: xingxc11 时间: 2011-8-16 21:52
很是费解啊作者: G4500 时间: 2011-8-30 21:41
非牛，交流下，从句的代词优先指代主句的主语是GMAC关于代词指代少数的几个原则之一，E刚好满足这个要求，them直接在because引导的从句里面。 反观D，这个我尝试解答啊，呵呵，them在that从句里面，与chambers之间隔了一层关系，优先指代moisture，但是这个是单数的，逻辑不成立，就有可能就近指代复数的tourists。 主要是D选项是从句的从句，E就简洁的多。