1. 完善SC考察定义，补充SC考察内容；
内容1，关于“SC考察逻辑”：
"However, that understanding does not have to come from extensive explicit training in grammar and usage or from knowledge of specialized linguistic terminology. Many people may have the needed insight without being able to explain in the technical terms.
The more difficult questions are not essentially designed to test for knowledge of rules or facts that are harder to learn or that require more technical training. Difficulty often stems from complexity and subtlety among the interconnected parts of the sentence and involves critical applications of principles that all astute users of English should understand."
这段话写得非常精辟，我们逐字逐句来学习一下：
然而，这种融会贯通并不必须来源于大量语法规则的练习、语法术语的练习，很多对语法规则、语法术语并不那么精通的考生仍然具备我们（指GMAC）所想要考察的技能。
难题设置的难点并不在于更加难以掌握的语法规则或更加生僻的语法术语，难题的特征主要是在句子结构复杂的同时需要考生灵活运用逻辑原则，而这种逻辑原则是所有机智的英语使用者都应该掌握的。
Yellow jackets number among the 900 or so species of the world's social wasps, wasps living in a highly cooperative and organized society where they consist almost entirely of females—the queen and her sterile female workers.
A. wasps living in a highly cooperative and organized society where they consist almost entirely of
B. wasps that live in a highly cooperative and organized society consisting almost entirely of
C. which means they live in a highly cooperative and organized society, almost all
D. which means that their society is highly cooperative, organized, and it is almost entirely
E. living in a society that is highly cooperative, organized, and it consists of almost all
答案是B，A错在逻辑意思，wasps不是社会，不能用v-ing去修饰整个主语，十分微妙，A的语法完全正确。
内容2，关于“平行”：
“Words or phrases that have similar roles in a sentence should be treated in ways that make the similarity clear. This often requires ensuring that parallel clause shave parallel structure, that verbs having the same function are in the same form, and that elements within the scope of a modifier all relate to the modifier in the same way.”
意思就是：
平行的本质是平行元素在句子中的逻辑地位对等，而不仅仅拘泥于平行标志词或者平行形式。
Shoppers in sporting goods stores, unlike in department stores, do very little impulse shopping, not buying a pair of skis and a boomerang when they come in for a basketball, but they leave with a basketball only.
A. in department stores, do very little impulse shopping, not buying a pair of skis and a boomerang when they come in for a basketball, but they leave with a basketball only
B. in department stores, shop impulsively very little; someone who comes in for a basketball will leave with a basketball only and not also buy a pair of skis and a boomerang as well
C. those in department stores, do very little impulse shopping, do not buy a pair of skis and a boomerang when they come in for a basketball, but leave with only a basketball
D. those in department stores, do very little impulse shopping; someone who comes in for a basketball will leave with a basketball only and not buy a pair of skis and a boomerang as well
E. department stores, shop impulsively very little; someone will not buy a pair of skis and a boomerang when they come in for a basketball but will leave with only a basketball
答案是D，C是完美平行结构，但逻辑错误，因为后面两个消费细节隶属于impulse shopping，如果凭借简单平行形式去选，很容易选错。
2. “Some complicating factors to consider”
对于2个存在争议的问题，官方首次给出回应：
回应1：as well as和and 等价问题
“as well as is an entirely acceptable equivalent of and or in addition to.”
意思就是：
此次官方给出实锤：as well as和and可以等价替换，即选项中出现as well as和and不可作为split对有关选项进行排除。
3. “Some issues that are not tested”
明确非考点内容：
非考点1：标点符号
“You will need to judge issues of punctuation insofar as they involve standard conventions that make a difference for the meaning and coherence of the sentence. You will not need to judge, for example,whether a comma should be inside or outside a closing quotation mark.”
意思就是：
除非标点符号涉及到句法规则，如：逗号不能用于连接两个独立的句子，其余标点符号的用法不做考查。诸如“我觉得逗号放在这里不太好”、“我觉得这里应该补出一个逗号用于间隔”等都不在考查范围。
非考点2：that / which的区别
“Some American publishers have adopted the convention that which, used as a relative pronoun, should always be nonrestrictive and should be replaced with that in restrictive clause (as in“laws which have been replaced are no longer enforced” versus “laws that have been replaced are no longer enforced”). You should not expect to see questions for which the deciding factor is merely whether the writer adheres to this convention.”
which和that的限定和非限定修饰语法重要性被削弱。
大家争议很久的考点“that只能引导限定性定语从句（前面一定不能有逗号）和which只能引导非限定性定语从句 (前面一定要有逗号)”，官方给出实锤：不考！不考！不考！重要的事情说三遍。
Carnivorous mammals can endure what would otherwise be lethal levels of body heat because they have a heat-exchange network which kept the brain from getting too hot.
a) which kept
b) that keeps
c) which has kept
d) that has been keeping
e) having kept
答案是B，因为只有B是一般时态，逻辑正确，虽然是用that去修饰network。
我发现近期改革后，高分的人很少，估计都是掉坑里了，我也不急着考，希望大家考试的时候做SC首先从逻辑句意出发，而不要从表面语法形式选答案。
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