讨论雨法狗第13题~GWD答案错误？！纠结中。。。。

rebecca_wang · 发表于 2010-9-24 05:02:57

附上题目：
13、(ID: zf13646348, v32)
Responding to the public’s fascination with-and sometimesundue alarm over-possible threats from asteroids, a scaledeveloped by astronomers rates the likelihood that a particular asteroid or comet may collide with Earth.

A.a scale developed by astronomers rates the likelihoodthat a particular asteroid or comet may
B.a scale that astronomers have developed rates howlikely it is for a particular asteroid or comet to
C.astronomers have developed a scale to rate how likelya particular asteroid or comet will be to
D.astronomers have developed a scale for rating thelikelihood that a particular asteroid or comet will
E.astronomers have developed a scale that rates thelikelihood of a particular asteroid or comet that may

这题我选了C，GWD答案是C，但是好多童鞋说是D，且说的还挺有理的，我也不知道该咋弄了。。。请大牛验明正身~！呵呵，附上讨论帖地址：http://forum.chasedream.com/GMAT_SC/thread-231776-1-1.html
http://www.taisha.org/bbs//thread-1225379-1-4.html

mini1201 · 发表于 2010-9-24 18:19:50

额这个。。。我又去溜达了一圈然后我觉得可能 maybe 应该是D

Manhattan给出C的错误并不是will be to是否idiom 是因为rate the likelihood 比rate how likely更formal

CAREY513同学找的例子也说明了developed sth for doing是可行的

求讨论啊求讨论。。。

rebecca_wang · 发表于 2010-9-24 07:50:38

没人帮帮我吗？5555555555~~坐等讨论中~~

mini1201 · 发表于 2010-9-24 08:04:13

我也看到这道题了我看Manhattan上面说的是D 我也选的是C 我迷茫了。。。

labixiaoxinyue · 发表于 2010-9-24 08:15:48

我觉得吧，C中最后的will be to 就有问题了。be to do这个结构一定错呀。。。虽然to rate 比for rating要好。。。

rebecca_wang · 发表于 2010-9-24 08:28:09

谢谢楼上两位童鞋的回复~
BTW,很多时候我总是在各种错误的比较中迷茫，比如这个to do和for doing，比如这个will be to do，我也知道be to do不对，可是看到to do表目的就想选它，真是各种纠结。。。
后来我就自己做了八个字的总结：“简洁有效，瑕不掩瑜”

fengyeming · 发表于 2010-9-24 08:30:22

C中will be to还原后明显是will be likely to do，是固定搭配，我认为没问题。
而且C和D比，C更通顺点啊，支持选C

wakjzmb · 发表于 2010-9-24 08:52:45

Manhatten 的 staff如此说：

hmm. tough one.

i can see that (c) is unacceptably informal / casual, and maybe even unidiomatic, but i can only see that because i'm a seasoned writer and reader of formal english.

for those of you who are not native speakers of english - the best approach to problems such as this one is:
* note the differences in usage between the formal and informal
- e.g., "rate how likely" vs. "rate the likelihood that..."
* remember what these differences look like, so that you can make similar distinctions in the future.

我也纠结了。

多谢楼主现在提出这个问题哈。。

wakjzmb · 发表于 2010-9-24 08:53:34

(d) is the best answer, although (c) is not too far behind. what's the source? is this from gmatprep?

(e) is wrong, since you can't use both "likelihood" and "may"... redundancy.

rebecca_wang · 发表于 2010-9-24 09:10:45

谢谢你的回复~~
呵呵，那你有没有告诉老美这道题的来源哪~？
我在Falk Library旁边都是些医学院的老美，也没人问。。。。

鉴于人家native都确认过了，那我就选D吧。。。虽然心有不甘。。。。
我觉得人家5楼同学说的很有理啊“C中will be to还原后明显是will be likely to do，是固定搭配，我认为没问题。”

雨中小熊呵 · 发表于 2010-9-24 10:14:08

到底哦选啥呀我很想选C的可是Mahanttan都说D了纠结呀

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