[求助]T-9-Q13. 987-184这题怎么都不明白呢

T-9-Q13.
        987-184

Building large new hospitals in the bistate area would constitute a wasteful use of resources, on the basis of avoidance of duplicated facilities alone.

A.              on the basis of avoidance of duplicated facilities alone

B.               on the grounds of avoiding duplicated facilities alone

C.              solely in that duplicated facilities should be avoided

D.              while the duplication of facilities should be avoided

E.               if only because the duplication of facilities should be avoided

做的时候should应该省略，所以直接就排除了cde,avoidance不如动名词好所以排除a,然后选择了b。可是答案是e，nn帮忙分析一下，这题应该怎么做呀？考点是什么呀？if only什么意思呢？

挺难的一道题目！

GMAC现在的题目越来越喜欢拿略为有点问题的，或者看上去很不舒服的选项作为正确答案了。

依然是以句意为根本：

在哪里哪里盖大医院很浪费，仅仅从应该避免重复建设这一点上看（这么做）就是浪费。

B错是因为on the ground of 后面跟的是标准

可以参照下面两个例子看看 on the ground of race是个既常用又标准的用法。

Discrimination between human beings on the ground of race, colour or ethnic origin is an offence to human dignity

The survey clearly demonstrates that discrimination on the ground of sexual orientation and gender identity undermines young LGBT people’s capacity to be socially included and to become active citizens.

所以B如果改为 on the ground of efficiency of facilities应该就没问题了

E真的不容易选出来。我也把它排除掉了，因为if because两个站在一起造成句子结构不完整。但是看了别的坛子的讨论，老美们似乎不觉得这是个大问题，if only仅仅修饰because，与单独的if引导从句不同。

should在这里不表示虚拟语气，所以不能去掉

虚拟语气：在ｓｕｇｇｅｓｔ，ｒｅｏｍｍｍｅｎｄ等次引导的从句里，ｓｈｏｕｌｄ省略

Building large new hospitals in the bistate area would constitute a wasteful use of resources, on the basis of avoidance of duplicated facilities alone.
            

A.              on the basis of avoidance of duplicated facilities alone
            

B.               on the grounds of avoiding duplicated facilities alone
            

C.              solely in that duplicated facilities should be avoided
            

D.              while the duplication of facilities should be avoided
            

E.               if only because the duplication of facilities should be avoided

前半句用了would constitute ,这个是虚拟语气,所以下面只有if only后面跟虚拟了吧~

on the grounds 后面跟that用虚拟 而且should需要省略的

nn再确认下~

leo-liu

解释精辟！！！ 同意

看了这个题目还是觉得自己没能完全被说服！非得要强调the duplication of facilities被avoid么？原文的the avoidance of duplicated facilities似乎也是能理解。

我倒觉得C很大的问题是这个solely,翻译过来变成了就因为重复建设，而不是原文说要表达的仅见是重复建设这条上就造成了浪费。

但是E这个IF ONLY我还是不能很好的理解。不晓得NN能提供更多的例子参考么？

Choices A and B are unclear and imprecise: on the basis of avoidance… and on the grounds of avoiding … do not present reasons that support the statement in the main clause, and alone seems illogically to modify duplicated facilities. Also, duplicated facilities in A, B, and C identifies the problem with the facilities that have been duplicated, not with the act of duplicating facilities; for example, C apparently advises people to avoid facilities that have been duplicated. In D, while establishes no logical relation between the main clause and the rest of the sentence. E is best: if only because introduces a reason for the preceding statement, and the remainder of the answer choice is logically worded. The question is difficult.

Longman:

if only: used to give a reason for something, although you think it is not a good one
example:  Media studies is regarded as a more exciting subject, if only because it's new.