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Yellow jackets number among the 900 or so species of the world's social wasps, wasps living in a highly cooperative and organized society where they consist almost entirely of females—the queen and her sterile female workers.

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GWD-3-Q4: 请帮我解释一下为何选B呢?谢谢

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楼主
发表于 2005-1-16 11:20:00 | 只看该作者

GWD-3-Q4: 请帮我解释一下为何选B呢?谢谢

GWD-3-Q4:  


Yellow jackets number among the 900 or so species of the world’s social wasps, wasps living in a highly cooperative and organized society where they consist almost entirely of females—the queen and her sterile female workers.



wasps living in a highly cooperative and organized society where they consist almost entirely of


wasps that live in a highly cooperative and organized society consisting almost entirely of


which means they live in a highly cooperative and organized society, almost all


which means that their society is highly cooperative, organized, and it is almost entirely


living in a society that is highly cooperative, organized, and it consists of almost all

沙发
发表于 2005-1-16 13:19:00 | 只看该作者

B. consisting修饰society.

A 错. they指代wasps.

C和D, which means没有合理解释对象.

E, it 指代不清. 意思错. living应该指wasps而不是yellow jacket.

板凳
发表于 2005-2-18 23:26:00 | 只看该作者
选对了,但是对后面这个分句的成分有点疑惑,如果是同位语的话,重复wasps不是很别扭吗?
地板
发表于 2008-1-13 23:27:00 | 只看该作者
如果是同位语的话,重复wasps不是很别扭吗?
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发表于 2008-1-17 03:55:00 | 只看该作者

social wasps和wasps that live in a highly cooperative and organized society consisting almost entirely of females—the queen and her sterile female workers.是同位语

6#
发表于 2008-1-17 08:07:00 | 只看该作者
同意楼上,同位语关系。
7#
发表于 2008-9-10 22:08:00 | 只看该作者

A 错. they指代wasps.

-------------------这个解释很简单,但是满正确的啊!

8#
发表于 2009-1-1 08:47:00 | 只看该作者

I found this from Manattan GMAT forum:

choice b features a rather strange-looking usage of a very common construction: the use of an appositive phrase (a noun phrase with no introductory words) to define a term, in this case 'social wasps'.

here's an example:
seamen distinguish flotsam, goods floating on seawater after a shipwreck from jetsam, goods thrown overboard by the crew of a ship.
you've probably seen this construction many times. it's weird-looking in this problem, though, because of the apparent repetition of 'wasps'.

but here's the story: the term being defined is 'social wasps'.
            
therefore, there's actually no redundancy: you need to think about 'wasps' and 'social wasps' as two completely different words. once you think about it that way, the sentence is just like the flotsam/jetsam example above, which should be noncontroversial.

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