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GWD-1-2 发现ETS 改写照抄的原文了,有些问题

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楼主
发表于 2008-7-22 05:20:00 | 只看该作者

GWD-1-2 发现ETS 改写照抄的原文了,有些问题

By merging its two publishing divisions, the company will increase their share of the country’s $21 billion book market from 6 percent to 10 percent, a market ranging from obscure textbooks to mass-market paperbacks.

A.      their share of the country’s $21 billion book market from 6 percent to 10 percent, a market ranging

B.        from 6 percent to 10 percent its share of the $21 billion book market in the country, which ranges

C.      to 10 percent from 6 percent in their share of the $21 billion book market in the country, a market ranging

D.      in its share, from 6 percent to 10 percent, of the $21 billion book market in the country, which ranges

E.      
                    
to 10 percent from 6 percent its share of the country’s $21 billion book market, which ranges

发现了ETS改写的原文,觉得ETS的改法不太顺口 (E答案,相对正确)

By merging its Bantam Doubleday Dell division with Advance Publications' Random House, Bertelsmann will increase to 10 percent from nearly 6 percent its share of the $21 billion book market in the United States, which ranges from Bibles to mass-market paperbacks.

原文地址如下

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9804E2DA1038F937A15750C0A96E958260&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/Subjects/B/Books%20and%20Literature


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沙发
 楼主| 发表于 2008-7-22 05:41:00 | 只看该作者

ETS那帮人尽是把问题复杂化,本来好好的句子非乱改,说英语的人都会做错的……

B.      
                    
from 6 percent to 10 percent its share of the $21 billion book market in the country, which ranges

E.       to 10 percent from 6 percent its share of the country’s $21 billion book market, which ranges

都有道理,而且都是从原文改变而来的,但是increased to A from B 在生活中的确用的更多啊! 

E的改法好像故意让market和which更接近?

B的改法又感觉保留了更多原文…… 真是晕啊,ETS这帮烂人!

板凳
 楼主| 发表于 2008-7-22 06:15:00 | 只看该作者
说明了大家长期怀疑的 increase to 10 percent from 没有错,自然E 更正确了
地板
发表于 2008-7-22 11:44:00 | 只看该作者

B和E 我觉得区别不在于which的修饰对象.

区别1 country’s $21 billion book market 和 market in the country 的差别。

个人认为,按区域划分市场更倾向以地理为概念。in ***表国家区域比's表所有概念来的妥当。

区别2 from 和to的顺序, which 后面从句中 from...to... 前面也用from...to...结构好看些。

嗯,两句语法上都成立。关键是哪句更好。而怎么判断句子好坏的标准就应人而异了。

5#
发表于 2008-7-28 19:34:00 | 只看该作者
那请问答案是B还是E??
6#
 楼主| 发表于 2008-7-29 01:15:00 | 只看该作者

按照ETS习惯,which的修饰应该尽量紧贴(有介词修饰的除外),这道题in the country可以算例外which不需要紧贴

increased to from 习惯中用的又比较多……

这题的确不能深究答案,因为语法和逻辑上讲,2个答案都是正确的!

很有可能ETS也不算分的,只是测验大家对于语言用法的倾向性,应该是一道实验题

7#
 楼主| 发表于 2008-7-29 01:19:00 | 只看该作者

increase from to 和后面的range from to 不是一回事哦

increase 不一定必须接from to 或 to from,生活中经常说increased to 100. 根本就没有to

而range from 的to 是必须的,所以这俩个东西逻辑上和语法上没有平行的问题

country's 21 billion book market也是很常见的用法,我在很多经济和市场报告上见过……

8#
 楼主| 发表于 2008-7-29 01:47:00 | 只看该作者

关于country不是人,怎么可以用's结构?

GMAT中没有强行规定此点, 反而提倡此用法

有很多这样的例子。

og268 Europe’s young playwrights

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9#
发表于 2008-7-29 08:53:00 | 只看该作者
I will go for B
10#
发表于 2008-7-29 11:19:00 | 只看该作者
E
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