[求助]请教一道真题(gwd 7-31) - ChaseDream

Unlike the original National Museum of Science and Technology in Italy, where the modles are encased in glass or operated only by staff members, the Virtual Leonardo Project, an online version of the museum , encourages visitors to "touch" esch exhibit, which thereby activates the animated functions of the piece.

XDF答案是D ，但ACTIVATE 与主语 the Virtual Leonardo Project 明显不搭配,而其他选项也明显不对。各位帮忙看看吧

引用: D中activate不是单数谓语，所以不可能和encourages平行而只可能和touch平行.

if so, then become ''... encourages visitors to "touch" esch exhibit, and to activate the animated functions of the piece...'' ...................it is not reasonable to say '' ...encourage to activate the animated functions.......''

我想這裡就是ETS很陰險的地方，如果不看句意，很容易那activate和encourages並列，但仔細看句意

encourages 与 touch没有并列啊？两个单复数不同，就不可能并列。

我怎麼覺得是因為touch each exhibit這動作造成animated functions activate....

以下是引用whq2002在2004-8-25 2:17:00的发言：

i have some thoughts about this one.

引用: D中activate不是单数谓语，所以不可能和encourages平行而只可能和touch平行.

请大家讨论.........

我选C。谁说其中的it指的是前面的句子啊，语法上它指代 the Virtual Leonardo Project，句意上也行的通；只是没有表达出前后两个分句的意思罢了。。。

我也曾想过，把D中的activate后加一个S，使之与encourages平行；那么将是最优的选项了。

D的thereby,表示前面鼓励触摸造成了后面的激活功能。acitivate不应于touch并列。

But I think the right answer is A..."which" refers to "encourages visitors to "touch" esch exhibit"

In GWD3-16, I found the same usage of "which": The company has not gone into rubber tapping, even though greater profits can be made from rubber tapping, which leaves the forest intact.---> "which" means "The company has not gone into rubber tapping"

以下是引用huawang在2004-12-28 11:34:00的发言：

But I think the right answer is A..."which" refers to "encourages visitors to "touch" esch exhibit"

Please tell me what you think

"which" means "rubber tapping"，not " The company has not gone into rubber tapping"

OG是GMAT学习的圣经吧，但OG中从没有which指代整个前面一句话的例子。只有一至二句用“, which” 来直接修饰逗号前的名词对象的用法。

我也选C，it 指代 touch each exhibit 这个行为，而且用 will, 表示这个行为发生之后所将产生的结果。

thereby不就表示了activate是touch的伴随结果吗？这个两个动作都是并且只能是vistors发出的（不管从逻辑上来讲还是从主谓一致上。）若动词是由to或can引起的，省略是合理的吧。起码og上不乏两个动词省略后面的那个动词的to的情况。（我知道不举例很没有说服力，但真的有哈，大家自己翻翻，昨天找例子找得我眼晕，实在不想去翻那本七孔砖一样的og了）。

另外，十楼的朋友说用thereby activating，首先前面要加comma，不然就修饰exhibit了。其次，前句位于是encourages，认为activating分词结构表伴随结果应该是修饰touch。你说呢朋友？

惭愧! 复习了这么久SC, 今天头一次听说居然会有因为这样而避免平行歧义的, 不知道哪位高手可以给出出处或者示例?! 感谢先!

在没有看到这个之前, 我觉得C是正确的, 理由是D里面存在平行的歧义, 是encourage然后activate, 还是touch然后activate, 这个therefore是一个表示因果的副词, 前面的原因动作要明确.

这个the Virtual Leonardo Project就是on line museum啊, 那么,visitors是被鼓励去touch, 其实就是去click the online images to activate the animated functions of the piece. (因为是科学博物馆,展品是高科技的东东,不是用来看的,是要touch才能发现很多functions吧)

huawang
-- 以下是引用whq2002在2004-8-25 2:17:00的发言：

I agree with whq2002....

But I think the right answer is A..."which" refers to "encourages visitors to "touch" esch exhibit"

Please tell me what you think

以下是引用Novena在2005-3-15 17:29:00的发言：

"which" means "rubber tapping"，not " The company has not gone into rubber tapping"

OG是GMAT学习的圣经吧，但OG中从没有which指代整个前面一句话的例子。只有一至二句用“, which” 来直接修饰逗号前的名词对象的用法。

哈，which怎么会指代rubber tapping呢？rubber tapping 会leaves forest intact吗？

which/it 按GMAT语法都无法指代[前面的情况]（也就是the Virtual Leonardo Project encourages visitors to “touch” each exhibit这个句子），如果有朋友说which可以指代 the Virtual Leonardo Project，那么OG中每一个“which/it错误指代句子”的题都可以往这种思路上走。

既然which/it 无法指代，那么如何指代呢？两种方法：1. V+ing；2. 新名词指代

这里activation就是新名词指代的情况（in turn后必须加句子，我没有证实；事实，在很多句子里in turn可以划掉）。

还有朋友说activate 和 touch平行，我觉得不通，encourage to activate？

对于d,做的时候我不确定的地方是，比起encourage sb to do and do来说，encourage sb to do and to do是不是才更加并列？thereby 是不是也对这种选择有作用？因为一般见到的thereby前好像都有逗号亚，哪位NN有印象？

以下是引用tonyadidas在2005-5-6 18:30:00的发言：

支持activate和touch并列，因为两个动作的发出者都是visitors，而且这种并列不是通常我们遇到的同时发生或简单的先后发生，由于activate前面有了个thereby所以表示出逻辑上伴随结果。

C. exhibit, and it will activate 任何代词不能指代整个句子 it错，而且句子没有将来时的意思，是说touch的同时就激起了...

以下是引用rosebudxiaojie在2005-9-7 20:16:00的发言：

答案D没有错

activate的逻辑主语应该是"visitors to “touch” each exhibit"这个动作, 不是单纯的visitor

以下是引用tonyadidas在2005-5-6 18:30:00的发言：

OG上有很多例子表明:当表示一系列的动作,即一个动作的sequence的时候,直接用and连接动词.此题中的touch和activate是动作的sequence,加入thereby更加使得这种sequence明显,从这个方面来说,只有D是正确的.

此外,将activate与encourage并列好像不太合适,因为encourage的主语是Virtual Leonardo Project, VLP activates the animated function of the piece似乎从逻辑意思上讲不通.

我开始也选B，因为觉得activate的逻辑主语不应是visitors，但仔细想想没什么不行的。visitors touch从而激活，visitors 是激活动作的发出者

activate也可看作是visitors发出的动作，visitors touch and activate the animated functions合理

平行結構：the Project encourages visitors to “touch” each exhibit and thereby activate the animated functions of the piece.

encourages visitors to touch 和encourages visitors to activate the animated functions of the piece.

俺做題時沒看清句義，誤認爲activate和encourge平行，上了老鼻子的黨！

为什么没有人认为C和D中的and连词表示并列是错误的呢？OG中很多地方都指出连词的意义很重要，这里并没有表示并列的意思啊，不能因为Dthereby不能跟句子就随便加个and在前面啊。

encourages visitors to “touch” each exhibit, which thereby activates the animated functions of the piece

"to do.. and thereby do.." is widely used. I guess ETS does not want to conreadict modern English grammar widely used in media and formal writings.

1---"Mrs. Clinton is quick to admit errors and thereby distance herself from the old plan."--Nytimes sunday book review.

Most Palestinians are believed to favor a two-state solution that would acknowledge Israel's pre-1967 borders and thus, explicitly or implicitly, Israel's right to exist. But the Hamas-led government that Palestinians elected this year refuses any such gesture.

The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, is now trying to exploit that inconsistency to force Hamas to endorse the mainstream Palestinian position and thereby make it possible to restart peace talks and renew international aid. He is prepared to call for a referendum next month to rally popular support behind his efforts.

这个题目深有体会，看到和LS有的同学理解一致，还是满开心的。

说说自己的理解
A,关于which能否指代整个句子，本人才疏学浅，OG只翻过11版，印象中那上面的解释从来没有直接说过which不能指代整个句子。找了一遍只有71题的解释好像说了这么个意思，再加上前面若干牛牛的肯定，就把A否了吧（虽然开始也选了A

。。。）
B,an activation,一个名词形式，读起来比较别扭，就否了。。。
C,同A,it不能指代一个句子。前面有人理解是it指代前面的Virtual Leonardo Project, 如果是这样的话，放入整个句子中，最后一部分的理解就成为：VL计划激活功能，读起来完全没逻辑，否了
D,应该是encourage...to...and thereby (to) ...的结构。这两个不定时结构看起来是完全并列的，但因为第二个被省略的to之前有个thereby，所以后面的内容又有一层递进的含义，即encourage...to touch...的目的是encourage...to activate...,这样activate又和句子开头部分的operate相对应。逻辑上完全成立，从了
E，which指代不清，否了
考虑多有不周，还请牛牛指点

the Virtual Leonardo Project, an online version of the museum , encourages visitors to "touch" esch exhibit and thereby activate the animated functions of the piece.

此题是参观者两个动作的平行，“网上触碰”，“激活展品动画功能”，“thereby’体现了两个动作的先后关系，这是此处Thereby的用法

Should be D..
encourages visitors to “touch” each exhibit, which thereby activates the animated functions of the piece
First the diction is : encourage sb. to do something.
"to do.. and thereby do.." is widely used. I guess ETS does not want to conreadict modern English grammar widely used in media and formal writings.
Some examples are found in my daily reading;
1---"Mrs. Clinton is quick to admit errors and thereby distance herself from the old plan."--Nytimes sunday book review.
2----EditorialPublished: June 10, 2006Most Palestinians are believed to favor a two-state solution that would acknowledge Israel's pre-1967 borders and thus, explicitly or implicitly, Israel's right to exist. But the Hamas-led government that Palestinians elected this year refuses any such gesture.
The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, is now trying to exploit that inconsistency to force Hamas to endorse the mainstream Palestinian position and thereby make it possible to restart peace talks and renew international aid. He is prepared to call for a referendum next month to rally popular support behind his efforts.

Published: June 10, 2006Most Palestinians are believed to favor a two-state solution that would acknowledge Israel's pre-1967 borders and thus, explicitly or implicitly, Israel's right to exist. But the Hamas-led government that Palestinians elected this year refuses any such gesture.
The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, is now trying to exploit that inconsistency to force Hamas to endorse the mainstream Palestinian position and thereby make it possible to restart peace talks and renew international aid. He is prepared to call for a referendum next month to rally popular support behind his efforts.

-- by 会员 vanessav (2006/6/13 5:30:00)