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XDF补充材料上几道题……

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发表于 2006-6-5 09:00:00 | 只看该作者

XDF补充材料上几道题……

请大家留步,偶有几个问题请教一下:

1、huge sums of capital 后面谓语动词是用复数对吗?

2、During the nineteenth century Emily Eden and Fanny Parks journeyed throughout India.sketching and keeping journals forming the basis of news reports about the princely atates where they had visited.

这道题我没有电子版,现在宿舍熄灯了,我是借着电脑的光一个字一个字打出来的,就不打答案了。我想问一下里面where用得对不对?是不是换成“,which”更好一点?还有划线部分最后的时态是不是用得不对?

3、a large 可以直接修饰 staff 吗?算了,还是把题打出来吧

The commission acknowledged that no amount of money or staff members can ensure the safety of people who live in the vicinity of a nuclear plant .but it approved the installation because it believed that all reasonable precautions had been taken.

A,no amount of money or staff members

B,neither vast amounts of money nor staff members

C,neither vast amounts of money nor numbers of staff members  (这个选项里number应该改为单数???)

D,neither vast amounts of money nor a large staff

E,no matter how large the staff or how vast the amounts of money

大家讲讲你们怎么分析这道题的吧

4、The odds are about 4 to 1 against a surviving a takeover offer , and many business consultants therefore advise that a company's first line of defense in eluding offers like these be to even refuse to take calls from likely corporate raiders.

A ,that a company's first line of defense in eluding offers like these be to even refuse

B, that a company's first line of defense in eluding such offers be to refuse even

终于打出来了,大家帮我分析一下AB两项吧,首先,offers like these 的问题在哪里?还有,even的修饰对象问题? 我看到B中的even 前后的to do 结构是并列的……

沙发
发表于 2006-6-5 09:27:00 | 只看该作者

1、是的

2、

1.        During the nineteenth century Emily Eden and Fanny Parks journeyed throughout India, sketching and keeping journals forming the basis of news reports about the princely states where they had visited.

(A) forming the basis of news reports about the princely states where they had

(B) that were forming the basis of news reports about the princely states

(C) to form the basis of news reports about the princely states which they have

(D) which had formed the basis of news reports about the princely states where they hadE

(E) that formed the basis of news reports about the princely states they

267, sec01-17

In choice A it is not immediately clear whether forming modifies journals or parallels sketching and keeping. Also, where they had visited is wordy and inappropriate for a simple reference to past events. Choice B does not establish who visited the princely states, and that were forming should be that formed. Choice C is unclear because to form could be read as either in order to form or so as to form, and the present perfect have visited does not agree with the past tense journeyed. In choice D, as in choice a, where they had is faulty, and had formed suggests that the journals and news reports existed before the journey. E is best for this question of average difficulty.

“主句, doing1 +名词+doing2/done, 这里doing2/done可认为即能修饰主句,又能修饰前面的名词。这种结构要尽量避免,除非根据逻辑关系,明显不会产生歧义,则可被接受,参见大全877armed的用法。

补充

1这道题,实际考到了doingthat从句,做形容词成分修饰名词的区别,一般情况下我认为区别不大,至少ETS在考题中并不经常作为判断正确与否的考点,但有时在可能产歧义的情况下,还是要区别的。本题就是一个比较特别的例子。sketching and keeping journals作伴随状语,相当于副词,不敢肯定的说副词和副词并列一定要and,但形容词是可以省的,从OG的解释中来看,它认为forming可以被认为是状语平行于sketching and keeping 词,这样就造成歧义,不知forming修饰journals还是作状语。因此,用that定语从句就避免了这种歧义,这里that定语从句就比doing显得好。

doingthat从句的区分还可参见og237, 主要区别在特指(全指代)和泛指,从这个角度看, 这里that从句也更好。

2时态。visitedjourneyed的意思是查不多的,不存在visitedjourneyed早这一说。其实,这几个动词journeyedsketching and keeping,formed visited可看作同时发生的。

3OG的解释看, OG认为这里to form是状语, 只是意思表达不清。尽管有时so as to也表目的的意思,但更多的情况下是表结果,故to form可以理解成表目的in order to或是表结果 so as to,两种意思都能说的通,故could be read as either in order to form or so as to form

4. 不定式如果作为动作本身(如作定语), 则需要动作发出者;

但如果不定式作为目的状语, 则不一定需要。

3、

712, sec01-19

In choice A, amount of … staff members is incorrect; amount properly refers to an undifferentiated mass, as in the case of money. Choice B does not make clear whether vast amounts is supposed to describe money only or money and staff members, and in choice C it is not certain whether vast modifies amounts only or amounts and numbers. Choice D is best. Choice E cannot fit grammatically into the original sentence because it supplies no noun that can function as a subject for the verb can. This question is a little more difficult than the average.

staff members有点儿意思重复

vast amounts of能修money但不能修staff

4、

792, sec02-12

Choice A is awkward and poorly phrased: these has no plural noun to which it can refer, and even should be placed immediately before to take calls, the phrase it modifies. Choice B is best. In C, the plural they does not agree with the singular company,
                                even is misplaced, and advise…that…they should is unidiomatic. D has the plural companies but retains the other flaws of C. In E, who in place of that is an inappropriate pronoun for company, these does not agree with the singular offer, and is the refusal should be be to refuse. This question is difficult.

1)odds一种较常见的解释::The ratio of the probability of an event's occurring to the probability of its not occurring.

the odds against

The odds against a plane crash are around a million to one.

I'm afraid that the odds are heavily against her winning (=it is not likely)

2)a company’s first line of defense说明’sof可混用。

最后,MM问的问题都是大全里的,建议你下载大全和大全注释,里面都有解释的。祝复习顺利!!

712, sec01-19

In choice A, amount of … staff members is incorrect; amount properly refers to an undifferentiated mass, as in the case of money. Choice B does not make clear whether vast amounts is supposed to describe money only or money and staff members, and in choice C it is not certain whether vast modifies amounts only or amounts and numbers. Choice D is best. Choice E cannot fit grammatically into the original sentence because it supplies no noun that can function as a subject for the verb can. This question is a little more difficult than the average.

staff members有点儿意思重复

vast amounts of能修money但不能修staff

4、

792, sec02-12

Choice A is awkward and poorly phrased: these has no plural noun to which it can refer, and even should be placed immediately before to take calls, the phrase it modifies. Choice B is best. In C, the plural they does not agree with the singular company,
                        even is misplaced, and advise…that…they should is unidiomatic. D has the plural companies but retains the other flaws of C. In E, who in place of that is an inappropriate pronoun for company, these does not agree with the singular offer, and is the refusal should be be to refuse. This question is difficult.

1)odds一种较常见的解释::The ratio of the probability of an event's occurring to the probability of its not occurring.

the odds against

The odds against a plane crash are around a million to one.

I'm afraid that the odds are heavily against her winning (=it is not likely)

2)a company’s first line of defense说明’sof可混用。

最后,MM问的问题都是大全里的,建议你下载大全和大全注释,里面都有解释的。祝复习顺利!!

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