GWD的一道题求问 - ChaseDream

Most insomnia is not an illness or a physical condition so much as a symptom of another problem that may simply be a reaction to certain medications, anxiety about travel, or stress before a job interview.

A. an illness or a physical condition so much as a symptom of another problem that may simply be a reaction to certain medications

B. an illness or a physical condition so much as symptomatic of another problem that may be a simple one, like a reaction caused by certain medications

C. so much an illness or a physical condition but a symptom of another problem that may be as simple as when certain medications cause a reaction

D. so much an illness or a physical condition, but it is a symptom of another problem, maybe a simple one like certain medications causing a reaction

E. so much an illness or a physical condition but symptomatic of another problem, maybe simply a reaction to certain medications

kiwifoodtown 发表于 2013-11-19 09:16
提请LZ注意它的用词：symptomatic of another problem。

一看到题目，我们要养成习惯，先看划线部分位置。
这道题目中我们可以发现划线部分在中间，那就从划线部分的头开始，往题目开头看过去（相当于读题的倒序），发现有个not，就形成一种初步思想，可能是考与not有关的搭配，例如最常见的not but结构。看完开头，我们从划线部分结尾开始往后面看（正常阅读顺序），发现有逗号+anxiety about travel+逗号+or stress before a job interview，由逗号和or以及这两个词组的相关性就大概可以判断这道题也许也考平衡结构。
这样就把题目初步分析完了。接下来看选项。

在选项中，我们发现每个选项都有so much，就联想到not so much XX as XX 的句型，说明这道题的not不一定要和but一起用才能对，not也可以当作not so much XX as XX的一部分。

再者，因为 so much XX as XX是固定搭配，所以as一定不能缺，所以根据这个我们可以秒排除D和E。

对比ABC后，发现C中as是在从句后面，根本不是连接前面的so much的，所以C也一下子排除。
再看看B，后半句有个like，马上想到GMAC只接受such来表示列举，like只能表达“像”的意思，所以又排除B。
因此选A。

为什么A对呢？其实so much的正确顺序是 sth/sb do not so much AB as CD，大概表达他不是AB而是CD的意思。so much也可以倒装，变成sb/sth do not AB so much as CD，即跟A选项一样。