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1. With its plan to develop seven and a half acres of shore land, Cleveland is but one of a large number of communities on the Great Lakes that is looking to its waterfront as a way to improve the quality of urban life and attract new businesses.
(A) is looking to its waterfront as a way to improve the quality of urban life and attract
(B) is looking at its waterfront to improve the quality of urban life and attract
(C) are looking to their waterfronts to improve the quality of urban life and attract
(D) are looking to its waterfront as a way of improving the quality of urban life and attracting
(E) are looking at their waterfronts as a way they can improve the quality of urban life and attract

答案是C 可这里的 is but one 指的是什么？ 为什么要用复数呢？

这里排除一下只能选C了 用复数指代communities 如果选单数的话在A/B选项中 A的as a way 和to 表目的词重复 B looking at错误

2.As many as 300 of the 720 paintings attributed to Rembrandt may actually be the works of his students or other admirers.
(A) the 720 paintings attributed to Rembrandt may
(B) the 720 paintings attributed to be Rembrandt’s might
(C) the 720 paintings that were attributed to be by Rembrandt may
(D) the 720 Rembrandt paintings that were once attributed to him might
(E) Rembrandt’s paintings, although 720 were once attributed to him, may

答案是a 我选的b 哪里错了？

attributed to 中的to是介词 所以B中的to be错了 同理C

3. Many psychologists and sociologists now contend that the deliberate and even brutal aggression integral to some forms of competitive athletics increase the likelihood of imitative violence that erupts among crowds of spectators dominated by young adult males.
(A) increase the likelihood of imitative violence that erupts
(B) increase the likelihood that there will be an eruption of imitative violence
(C) increase the likelihood of imitative violence erupting
(D) increases the likelihood for imitative violence to erupt
(E) increases the likelihood that imitative violence will erupt

答案是e 可d哪里错了呢？

印象中是be likely to do ，likelihood是名词 不能加 to do的吧 参见GWD-18-Q1

4.In his eagerness to find a city worthy of Priam, the German archaeologist Schliemann cut through Troy and uncovered a civilization a thousand years older as was the city Homer’s heroes knew.

(A) older as was the city Homer’s heroes knew

(B) more ancient than the city known to Homer’s heroes

(C) older than was the city known to Homer’s heroes

(D) more ancient of a city than Homer’s heroes knew

(E) older of a city than was the one known to Homer’s heroes

答案是b 可是文明怎么能跟城市相比较呢？

这里ancient优先于 old 所以把ACE排掉了 D没有than 排除 只有选B了 （ 只能按照文章的意思来选了）

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