[SC总结] 饺子之RON视频解析———COMPARISON

COMPARISON

What is a “Comparison”?

Several types:

1) Literal comparisons or contrasts

   *X is like Y/ X is unlike Y

   *X does Y, as Z does

   *...

2) Quantitative comparisons

   *Greater than, less than, etc

   *More____than, as____as,etc

   *Half as much as, 30% of, etc..

3) General situations that aren’t literally comparisons but that require comparable things

   *I mistook X for Y

I mistook that table for_____(for the sentence to make sense, this has to be chair,stool,etc

,in other words something of the same general type as a table.)It can’t just be any noun! Try putting a noun like communism in there.

   *The company replaced X with Y.

   中文例子：我把小明误认成为了小樱。（小明和小樱可能长得很像，他们本质上都是相互可比的，在大自然中都属于同种类的人类群体哈哈）

What do we need in the case of a comparison?

1. GRAMMATICAL parallelism---the comparable elements should play the same grammatical role

   (they should be written in GRAMMTICAL FORMS that are as SIMILAR as possible)

2. The things have to be like each other.

  - same priority

  - same type/class of things

  -same situation/context

Eg.                                          Grammar               MEANING  

   I like to run more than swimming.                ×                     √

Chopin’s concerto are more emotional than Mozart.    √                      ×

                                      （前后都是noun）

注意：在GMAT当中大多数都是meaning errors，要学会识别。

Unlike most severance packages, which require workers to stay until the last day scheduled to collect, workers at the automobile company are eligible for its severance package even if they find a new job before they are terminated.

A.the last day scheduled to collect, workers at the automobile company are eligible for its severance package  

B.the last day they are scheduled to collect, workers are eligible for the automobile company's severance package

C.their last scheduled day to collect, the automobile company offers its severance package to workers  

D.their last scheduled day in order to collect, the automobile company's severance package is available to workers

E.the last day that they are scheduled to collect, the automobile company's severance package is available to workers  

第一步：comparison

前面是most severance packages,则比较方向是 the other thing is also some type of severance package.

第二步：

IN (e) the last day that they are scheduled to collect 用来修饰前面的day 也就是people are collecting days.

Eg. The last song that I am scheduled to sing.

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Like______________________ ,____WHOLE SENTENCE___.

Like any star of similar mass would do, once the Sun has exhausted the hydrogen in its core, it expands into a red giant, eventually ejecting its outer envelope of gases to become a white dwarf.

A.Like any star of similar mass would do, once the Sun has exhausted the hydrogen in its core, it expands into a red giant, eventually ejecting  

B.Like any star of similar mass, once the hydrogen in the Sun's core is exhausted, then it expands into a red giant and eventually ejects  

C.As in the case of any star of similar mass, once the hydrogen in the Sun's core is exhausted, it will expand into a red giant, and eventually ejecting  

D.As any star of similar mass would, once the hydrogen in the Sun's core is exhausted it will expand into a red giant and will eventually eject  

E.As would be the case with any star of similar mass, once the Sun exhausts the hydrogen in its core, it will expand into a red giant and eventually eject

(这道题以前做过，觉得特难，从前面半句看好像怎么都可以，但一看comparison之后直接剩余正确答案，真是奇妙！！)

第一步，判断comparison

The Sun &any star or

Action of the Sun & action of other star

When you put ‘s on something , it act as an ADJECTIVE

Eg.  The sun (noun)    The sun’s (adj.) core

第二步，根据like不能加句子直接明显排除

其余知识点：

In comparisons, AS should be followed by a CLAUSE (subj+verb)

Act as a CEO-----this kind of as is not a comparison at all.

It means that you actually took on the role of a CEO.

As it is with traditional pharmacies, on-line drugstores rely on prescriptions to be successful, since it is primarily prescriptions that attract the customers, who then also buy other health-related items.

A.As it is with traditional pharmacies, on-line drugstores rely on prescriptions to be successful  

B.As with the case of traditional pharmacies, on-line drugstores rely on prescriptions to have success  

C.As is the case with traditional pharmacies, prescriptions are the cornerstone of a successful on-line drugstore  

D.As traditional pharmacies, so on-line drugstores rely on prescriptions to be successful

E.Like traditional pharmacies, the cornerstone of a successful on-line drugstore is prescriptions  

第一步 分析comparison的对象

Traditional pharmacies& on-line drugstores.

第二步 判断明显错误

AS--should be followed by a CLAUSE or by a PREP. PHRASE.

第三步 分析tricky错误

In (a) it doesn’t stand for anything.

In (b)with doesn’t make literal sense

Unlike emergency calls that travel through regular telephone lines, where they thus automatically inform the operator of the location and phone number of the caller, cellular calls require emergency operators to determine the location of the caller.

A.lines, where they thus automatically inform the operator of the location and phone number of the caller, cellular calls require emergency operators to determine the location of the caller  

B.lines and thus automatically inform the operator of the location and phone number of the caller, cellular calls require emergency operators to determine the location of the caller  

C.lines, thus automatically informing the operator of the location and phone number of the caller, the location of the caller on a cellular phone has to be determined by the operator  

D.lines, and thus automatically inform the operator of the location and phone number of the caller, emergency operators have to determine the location of the cellular phone caller  

E.lines, thus automatically informing the operator of the location and phone number of the caller, emergency operators receiving a cellular call have to determine the location of the caller  

第一步明确comparison

Cellular calls are not like emergency calls.

第二步分析剩余选项

In (a) Where=they actually deliver this message to the operator INSIDE the phone lines!