管卫东上的题！紧急求助！

王小兔兔 · 发表于 2012-2-28 17:45:11

Socially and environmentally responsible investing is on the rise: last year in the United States, over $2 trillion was invested in funds that screen companies according to a variety of criteria such as adherence to labor standards, protection of the environment, and observance of human rights.
A.according to a variety of criteria such as
D. in accordance with such a variety of criteria as
正确答案是D，可是我想问的是A，也就是原文，有什么不对呢？

treewing929 · 发表于 2012-2-28 19:09:17

感覺 A 用法也對. 求解 !

wwc008love · 发表于 2012-2-28 22:40:05

这题我也不会。。。看看解释

Socially and environmentally responsible investing is on the rise: last year in the United States, over $2 trillion was invested in funds that screen companies according to a variety of criteria such as adherence to labor standards, protection of the environment, and observance of human rights.

A. according to a variety of criteria such as
B. according to a variety of such criteria, as by
C. according to such a variety of criteria as by
D. in accordance with such a variety of criteria as
E. in accordance with a variety of criteria, such as by

这道题曾经给出的答案是D。以前也因为这个受到了很多同学的质疑。最近我跟Manhattan GMAT的专家Ron Purewal联系过以后，将我们讨论的结果提供如下。

就A跟D之间的比较。

(1) according to vs. in accordance with

两者都有按照的意思（in a manner corresponding or conforming to），但是in accordance with后面一般跟随一个有权威性的条例，如规矩、惯例、标准等，强调要严格遵守。比如in accordance with the requirement that students must take a GMAT test to enter the graduate division of the school. 而according to相对就轻松的多，不是必须依从，而是做事的依据。

注意到原文句子开始部分responsibility的用法，也就是说这些criteria不是必须遵从的，而是投资者在投资时自愿考量的因素，所以A的according to更好一些。

(2) such X as Y vs. X such as Y

当X的内容清晰固定时，两者没有本质区别，但是D的问题在于，such到底在这里强调了criteria的内容，还是强调了variety的内容，根据as后紧跟的三个具体项目，应该是强调criteria，这种含混性使得D不如A好。

这个题目两个选项的差距实在太过微妙，使得该题目的能力区分度小，难度大，相信即使是对于750分以上的考生也不会构成结构性影响。

清飞扬 · 发表于 2012-2-29 00:08:33

RON的SC是很灵的！不愧是考出800满分的人

我看这题就是根据RON的准则，看到as后免是adherence to labor standards// protection of the environment// and observance of human right。

都是a variety of criteria的分支，所以是such X as ....

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