孙悟空们请看过来: GMAT SC几个妖媚惑众的把戏: That..that, 同位语，及被动语态

liuyongmei · 发表于 2010-12-23 01:33:09

68. The first trenches that were cut into a 500-acre site at
Tell Hamoukar, Syria, have yielded strong evidence for
centrally administered complex societies in northern
regions of the Middle East that were arising
simultaneously with but independently of the more
celebrated city-states of southern Mesopotamia, in
what is now southern Iraq.

(A) that were cut into a 500-acre site at Tell
Hamoukar, Syria, have yielded strong evidence
for centrally administered complex societies in
northern regions of the Middle East that were
arising simultaneously with but
(B) that were cut into a 500-acre site at Tell
Hamoukar, Syria, yields strong evidence that
centrally administered complex societies in
northern regions of the Middle East were arising
simultaneously with but also
(C) having been cut into a 500-acre site at Tell
Hamoukar, Syria, have yielded strong evidence
that centrally administered complex societies in
northern regions of the Middle East were arising
simultaneously but
(D) cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria,
yields strong evidence of centrally administered
complex societies in northern regions of the
Middle East arising simultaneously but also
(E) cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria,
have yielded strong evidence that centrally
administered complex societies in northern
regions of the Middle East arose simultaneously
with but

Rhetorical construction; Agreement;
Grammatical construction
Th is sentence, explaining interconnections among
a number of events, needs to be streamlined as
much as possible in order to become
understandable. To this end, unnecessary words
and structures should be eliminated. Prominent
among these are the relative clauses beginning
with that. Additionally, the subject of this
sentence is the plural trenches, which requires a
plural verb.
A Th at were cut … and that were arising … are
unnecessarily wordy and create an
unnecessarily complicated and confusing
sentence structure.
B In addition to the unnecessarily wordy
relative clauses, the singular verb yields does
not agree with the plural subject trenches.
C Having been cut … is unnecessarily wordy;
arising simultaneously must be followed by
the preposition with in order to make sense.
D The singular verb yields does not agree with
the plural subject trenches; also adds no
meaning to the sentence

E Correct. Unnecessary clauses and phrases
are avoided, and the subject and verb of the
main clause agree in number.
Th e correct answer is E.

疑问如下:
根据选项E,正确句子为 The first trenches
cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria,
have yielded strong evidence that centrally
administered complex societies in northern
regions of the Middle East arose simultaneously
with but independently of the more
celebrated city-states of southern Mesopotamia, in
what is now southern Iraq.

首先得说我根本看不懂为什么要选E，因为E在我看来是错误的，而且我看不懂E选项下的句子结构。
1. GMAT是不是特别讨厌 that... that...这种形式？基本上我感觉出题者不能容忍有2个that引导的丛句同时出现。孙悟空师傅们，你们觉得呢？每次解释中都说that that 很wordy, confusing, complicated.但是我觉得并没有confusing阿，反而修饰成分变得很清晰，被修饰的主语很清晰。你们认为呢。
2。在E选项中，句首变成了：The first treches cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria, 请问这里没有了that were,如何表现出treches 是被 cut 是被动语态呢？

其次，cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria,明显是修饰The first treches的。只有当定语从句中that， which所指代的是宾语，连词本身才能被省略。但是在这里 trenches 是主语，that were 怎么能被省略阿嗄啊啊啊啊？

3。再者，在E选项中，如果没有that 引导的从句, trenches 与Syria不就变成了同位语的关系了么，这也太难以理解了八，
4。在E选项中，have yielded strong evidence that也让我迷惑。为什么不让用evidence for 啊？？？？我所熟悉的句子一直是evidence for something，for 后面句子应该是evidence所要解释的结论。
这里用evidence that, 也就变成了that 后面的句子就是evidence本身。但是细读句子，傻子都看得出来that 后面的句子是evidence所要解释的结论。

liuyongmei · 发表于 2010-12-24 22:56:11

liuyongmei · 发表于 2010-12-25 03:51:25

126. The use of lie detectors is based on the assumption
that lying produces emotional reactions in an individual
that, in turn, create unconscious physiological
responses.
(A) that, in turn, create unconscious physiological
responses
(B) that creates unconscious physiological
responses in turn
(C) creating, in turn, unconscious physiological
responses
(D) to create, in turn, physiological responses that
are unconscious
(E) who creates unconscious physiological
responses in turn
A is the correct answer.
这道题中反而 ETS没有因为that... that...多个定语从句来认定此句的wordy,奇怪伐？

liuyongmei · 发表于 2011-1-4 23:25:50

苏格拉无底 · 发表于 2011-1-5 00:29:08

我给你问的也有点晕了，给你顶起来等答案 = =

liuyongmei · 发表于 2011-1-5 00:44:19

thanks, dear

chasebetter · 发表于 2011-1-31 16:23:36

og中有这么一句the subject of this sentence is trenches.我的理解是the first trenches 将at Tell Hamoukar的地区cut into a 500-acre site,所以是主动态而非被动态；即使没有that，Syria是描述Tell Hamoukar所在的位置，就像he lived Shanghai,China；evidence for更多情况下是接短语或doing sth,而原句想表达的意思很复杂，“that” +clause better；最后那个问题我觉得说得通啊，第一批壕沟....提供了有力的证据，that后就阐述这个证据是怎样有力的

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