GWD30-Q16 stupid问题3

Researchers are using computer images to help surgeons plan difficult operations and to develop programs that will work for doctors and nurses in the same way that flight simulators do for pilots, letting medical personnel practice their techniques and test their reflexes before they ever see a patient.

A.    plan difficult operations and to develop programs that will work for doctors and nurses in the same way that flight simulators do

B.    plan difficult operations and develop programs to work for doctors and nurses the same way as with flight simulators

C.    to plan difficult operations and to develop programs that will work for doctors and nurses like flight simulators

D.    plan difficult operations and in developing programs to work for doctors and nurses the same way as flight simulators

E.     to plan difficult operations and developing programs that will work for doctors and nurses like flight simulators do

答案是A，我选了C。

我简单的总结了几点关于错误的疑问：

1，平行结构。A是to help surgeons和后面的to develop programs平行，C是to plan和to develop平行。为什么不是C那种平行呢？帮助外科医生计划有难度的手术和开展计划？？

2，"help"

      help做动词可以用help sb. to do， 也可以省略to.是不是在ETS标准里大多数还是省略的好，因为字更少，更简略了？

3，“like”

     C里面的like后面跟的是名词，省略了动词，直接用forXX，我觉得与前面的形式也是挺平衡的。是不是like的问题。我记得之前讨论过，as比较的强调动作，like强调对象。那这里为什么不好呢？？还是用like也不错呢？

请NN作答，谢谢！！！

1 surgeons care not the plan benefiting other doctor but the operation

2 help sth do is prefered

3 to express the word 'similar', 'like' is often followed by a nouns, whereas 'as' is followd by a full sentence.

  the word following 'like' is often used to express similarity with the subject of a sentence nearby.

  for example:

  AVB,LIKE C .. A,like B, V C .. LIKE C, AVB,            each C is in accordance with A .

  futher more, 'like N' is a adverbial element, and therefore must be isolated with comma  

谢谢楼上的，1和2都解释的很好。但是3里面的那个example偶没看懂耶。。。“AVB是什么。。。”

原谅我的stupid。。。

如果用as来改写原句的话，就变成：to develop programs that will work for doctors and nurses as flight simulators will work for pilots
省略之后变成to develop programs that will work for doctors and nurses as flight simulators do for pilots
这里flight simulators和pilots的关系是 A work for B的关系
原句比较的是A work for B，就像C work for D一样 所以不能用like，是拿两句句子在类比，要用as。
而C选项里面就变成了A work for B, 就像C。指的是A和C两个主语做类比。那么意思上就错了，因为是句子与句子类比，而不是主语与主语类比。

但是后面有for pilots啊。。。

可以把这句句子改成这样哇：

Like flight stimulators for pilots, programs will work for doctors and nurses.

e...我发现我会越搞越糊涂的，是不是语法总会经过这个过程的。。。

看错题的时候我看到一道题目，

Artificial intelligence emerged during the late 1950's as an academic discipline based on the assumption that computers could be programmed to think like people.

这里用了like，把电脑和人做比较，但是句意是电脑可以像人一样思考；

就像这题里面的like，

把program和flight stimulators比较，但是句意是这个program 可以像flight stimulators对pilots产生作用一样对医生和护士产生作用。

请帮我从泥潭里拔出来吧。。。虽然我知道in the same way that更好。。。

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我觉得这个题目是不是应该从逻辑意思入手：A中，指help surgeons plan ，

而后面的to develop 对应的是are using computer images to，

意思是研究人员利用计算机图像帮助外科医生进行难度大的手术，并且发展。。。。

以下是引用AlienX在2009-5-15 0:35:00的发言：
umm...兩題有點不一樣
the programs will work for doctors and nurses like flight simulators.
computers could be programmed to think like people.

我觉得说得对。computers那句里的people可以和computers直接对换，可以说成：people could be programmed to think.但是第一句就不能这样，不能说flight simulator will work for doctors and nurses.所第二句的like后面需要跟的就是一个词，这符合like的用法，但是第一句后面要跟一句话，即flight simulators will work for pilots.这是就不能再用like了。