prep 62

62. Because she knew many of the leaders of colonial America and the American Revolution personally, Mercy Otis Warren was continually at or near the center of political events from 1765 to 1789, a vantage（优势） point combining with her talent for writing to make her one of the most valuable historians of the ear

(a) a vantage point combining with her talent for writing to make

(b) a vantage point, when combined with her talent for writing, that made

(c) a vantage point that combined with her talent for writing, and it made

(d) and this vantage point, which combined with her talent for writing to make

(e) and this vantage point, combined with her talent for writing, made

A: combining用被动比较好

B: when combined状语从句应该在that以内，否则没有修饰对象

C: combined用被动，it没有指代对象

D: and后面句子不完整，没谓语

E: correct

对B项的解释有点不明白，说的是谁没有修饰对象啊？when combined with her talent for writing嘛?这部分修饰a vantage point that吧，个人认为B项的错误时that 的指代有歧义，改变了原句的意思。

谁能帮我解释一下？谢谢！

哦，明白了，不过有个小小的疑问，就是条件状语从句修饰动词嘛？还是说，从句必须要有主句，所以放在that里面，that made her one of the most valuable historians of the ear做主句，when combined...做从句？

刚刚做到一个题，和上面题的解释有矛盾了：

102. Compared to those who do not, running three days a week saves an average of 14.1 percent on health-care costs each year in the United States.

A. Compared to those who do not, running three days a week saves

B. Compared with nonrunners, people who run three days a week save

C. Compared to not running, those running for three days a week save

D. When compared with those who do not, people running three days a week save

E. When compared to nonrunners, running three days a week saves

A: compared 比较对象不对等；who do not不完整

B: correct

C: those没有指代对象

D: who do not不完整

E: 比较对象不对等

注意：

1、             compare with同类对象比较，compare to比喻

2、             compare多用被动

3、             when compared with和compared with是一个意思

这里when compared with= compared with, 修饰主语running three days a week.

那62题中when combined with her talent for writing为什么不能修饰a vantage point that呢？

仅仅因为位置不对？我觉的62题中对B项的解释有点牵强。求教大家了！

这里when compared with= compared with, 修饰主语running three days a week.

那62题中when combined with her talent for writing为什么不能修饰a vantage point that呢？

仅仅因为位置不对？我觉的62题中对B项的解释有点牵强。求教大家了！

个人愚见：
    

102题 B项correct。  我觉得102题的主语不是running three days a week，是people (who run three days a week)，who...是修饰people的。compared with比较的对象是nonrunners也是人，比较对象与主语是一致的，都是人。
    

62题 的B项a vantage point, when combined with her talent for writing, that made... when从句省略了主语，容易让人产生歧义，一种理解：以为when从句的主语与主句主语一致，也就是Mercy Otis Warren combined with her talent for writing；另一种理解a vantage point was combined with her talent for writing。所以，如果把when combined with her talent for writing 放在that右边的话，才可以明确地去掉歧义，明确when从句是修饰a vantage point的。
    

不知道这样理解对不对，呵呵

哦，对，102题的主语是people,是我粗心了。楼上对62题的解释，我觉得很对，让我想到了另一个题：

96. From studies of the bony house of the brain, which is the cranium(头盖骨), located in the back of the skull, come what scientists know about dinosaur brains.

A. From studies of the bony house of the brain, which is the cranium(头盖骨), located in the back of the skull, come what scientists know about dinosaur brains.

B. The knowledge of dinosaur brains that scientists have come from studies of the bony house of the brain, located in the back of the skull, that is, the cranium

C. The knowledge that scientists know about dinosaur brains comes from studies of the bony house of the brain, which is located in the back of the skull and is called the cranium

D. What scientists know about dinosaur
  （主语）brains comes from studies of the cranium, the bony house of the brain located in the back of the skull

E. Located in the back of the skull is the cranium, the bony house of the brain, and it is from studies of this that scientists know what they know about dinosaur brains

A: which 指代brain错；located修饰不明；无主语

B: come应该用单数动词；located修饰不明；that is 指代不明

C: which指代不明；

D: correct

E: 无谓语

注意：

1、             located过去分词做定语，一定要尽可能紧挨着修饰词，用逗号隔离之后修饰对象可能是邻近，可能是主语，也可能修饰后面的词，也能做状语。

2、             the cranium和the bony house是相同的事物，最好的使用方式就是同位语

62题的C选项：

(c) a vantage point that combined with her talent for writing, and it made

这个选项中的it我觉得指代a vantage point，为什么解释中说

C: combined用被动，it没有指代对象