请教一个which的修饰问题

mephisto1015 · 发表于 2017-9-9 12:21:47

The Scandinavian assault on Western Europe culminated in the early eleventh century with the Danish conquest of the English kingdom, which other Scandinavian kings attempted to repeat, unsuccessfully later in the same century.

A. which other Scandinavian kings attempted to repeat, unsuccessfully, later in the same century
B. which other Scandinavian kings attempted to repeat later that same century, but not successfully
C. an achievement that other Scandinavian kings attempted later in the century to repeat, but were not successful at it
D. an achievement attempted later in the century by other Scandinavian kings that was not successful
E. an achievement that other Scandinavian kings attempted to repeat later in the century, but without success

ans，e

这道题在manhattan论坛上，大家的纠结点好像都在c，e了。
但是我看到倒数第二个位置的发言：a、b中which修饰的问题。他说which可以指代the Danish conquest of English kingdom，而不是the English kingdom。
所以a，b不能用which来排除。
我觉得他说的是对的。ron也说过which可以修饰n＋介词词组。eg1，i took pictures of my dog, which are so adorable that they make everyone smile. 这个句子里which修饰picture 。
eg2，The old capital building in Benicia, which was built in under a year when the city was designated capital of California, is now a historic landmark. 这里which修饰building。
这个问题ron没有回答，所以我想在这里请教一下sc能力者

which在这个题目中是不是可以指代the Danish conquest of the English kingdom？
以及如果是对的话，怎么排除a？

（因为出现奇怪字符，我又编辑了一次，哎

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angela777 · 发表于 2017-9-9 12:40:55

我是从句意出发，觉得an achievement比which好，即使which可以指代conquest....

mephisto1015 · 发表于 2017-9-9 12:51:57

angela777 发表于 2017-9-9 12:40
我是从句意出发，觉得an achievement比which好，即使which可以指代conquest....

谢谢回答！

我是这样想的哦：an achievement是同位语的语法，指代the Danish conquest of the English kingdom。which是定语从句的用法，也是指代the Danish conquest of the English kingdom。所以，问题是在指代相同，没有差异的情况下，同位语比定语从句好在哪里？gmac也没有说同位语就比较好。

angela777 · 发表于 2017-9-9 13:01:49

mephisto1015 发表于 2017-9-9 12:51
谢谢回答！

我是这样想的哦：an achievement是同位语的语法，指代the Danish conquest of the English k ...

在别的网站看到这个解释，觉得make sense:
First of all there is a split in this question between "which.." and "an achievement". "Which" is a relative pronoun that usually refers a noun closest or not so far away. The use of which is ambiguous as it may refer to either "conquest" or "assault". Whereas, the underlined part of the sentence which starts with "an achievement" is a noun phrase or an absolute phrase. This phrase describes the action discussed in the first part of the sentence. This structure expresses the meaning more clearly. Usually on GMAT the choices with absolute phrases are correct.

LouisGmat770 · 发表于 2017-9-9 13:05:03

which确实是可以指代the Danish conquest of the English kingdom的。但是GMAT考的是一个，相对正确和错误的，AB里存在的问题就是which离conquest较远，而且带of的这种，本来就是有些语意模糊的，因为到底指那个确实看上下文逻辑。如果这题不存在E这个选项，我也会在A和B里面选，但偏偏E又确实很完美，那三句中只能取其最好的E，不知道我的想法楼主能不能接受

mephisto1015 · 发表于 2017-9-9 13:05:27

angela777 发表于 2017-9-9 13:01
在别的网站看到这个解释，觉得make sense:
First of all there is a split in this question between "w ...

好的！我觉得这个解释ok！
谢谢谢谢！

mephisto1015 · 发表于 2017-9-9 13:09:12

LouisGmat770 发表于 2017-9-9 13:05
which确实是可以指代the Danish conquest of the English kingdom的。但是GMAT考的是一个，相对正确和错误 ...

嗯！可以的！其实我刚刚想到了，gmac的优先序的问题，当句式、逻辑都ok的时候就看clearly了！
永远选better的选项！
谢谢回答！

paiece · 发表于 2017-9-9 14:14:02

我觉得，即使跳跃修饰的话，这里的核心词是the Danish conquest，而其它北欧人民(比如瑞典）想重复的应该不会是Danish conquest吧，而只能是类似的Achievement. 所以AB不行~

mephisto1015 · 发表于 2017-9-9 16:12:18

paiece 发表于 2017-9-9 14:14
我觉得，即使跳跃修饰的话，这里的核心词是the Danish conquest，而其它北欧人民(比如瑞典）想重复的应该不 ...

也有道理哎

请教一个which的修饰问题

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