OG12SC求解。

小蔡学姐 · 发表于 2012-12-13 13:35:41

1. The Glass House Mountains in Queensland, Australia,
were sighted in 1770 by the English navigator Captain
James Cook, by whom they were named supposedly
because its sheer wet rocks glistened like glass.

(A) by whom they were named supposedly
because its
(B) by whom they were named supposedly and their
(C) naming them supposedly since their
(D) who so named them supposedly because their
(E) who so named it since supposedly their

Regarding the answer (C), not really understand the explanation from OG below, please help !
the preposition since loses the important causal logic of the sentence.
since在这里不是指因为的意思吗？为什么说loses the causal logic呢？

小蔡学姐 · 发表于 2012-12-13 13:39:44

补充一下，E选项中的supposedly的位置是否错误。

kiwifoodtown · 发表于 2012-12-13 15:27:55

C 选项且不说逗号+Ving的修饰问题，但说since,它在作为连词的时候才解释为因为，而且一般放在句首。since引导原因状语时作用远弱于because，而且表的原因是已知的。所以这里要解释如此命名的原因就不能用since了。GMAT规定since一般用于时间状语，而在原因状语中强调because作用。

E 的supposedly的确位置错了，错误地修饰了从句U，但最重要的错误it 不能指代 Mountains。

小蔡学姐 · 发表于 2012-12-13 16:02:37

万分感谢，瞬间明白了！！

小蔡学姐 · 发表于 2012-12-13 16:08:45

找到了一个解释
Although lots of people use "since" to mean "because" in common language today, that's not the original / "official" meaning of the word. Since means "from the time that" or "between then and now" or something along those lines - so the guest poster is right that we should use "since" when we're talking about a period of time and "because" when we're talking about cause and effect. Don't use "since" (on the GMAT) to mean "because."

julialee1991 · 发表于 2013-4-9 11:28:14

弱弱的问一句。。。逗号+ving的修饰问题是怎么一回事啊。。？求解答。。

jhanas · 发表于 2013-4-9 12:19:00

我想请教一下.和答案无关,

who so named them supposedly 和 by whom they were named supposedly 这个应该都是对的吧,但是为啥GMAT会认为主动比被动要好? 第二, so在这句话里什么意思呢？

多谢!

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