急!GMATPREP上一道题目不明白！

handsong · 发表于 2006-7-14 16:54:00

There is a widespread belief in the US and Western Europe that young people have a smaller commitment to work and a career than their parents and grandparents and that the source of the change lies in the collapse of the work ethic.

A: a smaller commitment to work and a career than their parents and grandparents

B: less of a commitment to work and a career than their parents and grandparents

C: a smaller commitment to work and a career than that of their parents and grandparents

D: less of a commitment to work and a career than their parents and grandparents had

E: a lessening of the commitment to work and a career that their parents and grandparents had

答案是D，想不通啊！比较结构中可以用had吗？大家帮忙看看！

handsong · 发表于 2006-7-14 18:59:00

快考了，请大家帮忙看看！多谢！

handsong · 发表于 2006-7-14 20:43:00

在大全中找到一题几乎是类似的：

428.Inflation has made many Americans reevaluate their assumptions about the future; they still expect to live better than their parents have, but not so well as they once thought they could.

(A) they still expect to live better than their parents have

(B) they still expect to live better than their parents did

(C) they still expect to live better than their parents had

(D) still expecting to live better than their parents had

(E) still expecting to live better than did their parents

答案是B

请NN指点，到底区别在哪里？

mbz · 发表于 2006-7-14 23:12:00

why you think D is not right.

Had is good here. It equals "did have", or simply "did"

handsong · 发表于 2006-7-15 00:23:00

以下是引用mbz在2006-7-14 23:12:00的发言：

why you think D is not right.

Had is good here. It equals "did have", or simply "did"

had=did have? or had=did?

做助动词的had和did应该不同吧。。

litperi · 发表于 2006-7-15 00:28:00

现在的年轻人是have

当这些人的父母年轻时候做的事情当然是用had啦因为是过去发生的嘛

mbz · 发表于 2006-7-15 00:29:00

"had" here is not 助动词

bigtone · 发表于 2006-7-16 06:29:00

"had" here is not 助动词

agree!

bluetea · 发表于 2006-7-23 10:02:00

好色之图 · 发表于 2011-10-11 11:37:29

Manhattan的解释如下，我觉得还比较合理，虽然这道题确实出的不太好

Well, it's debatable whether the difference is clear-cut enough to pass GMAT quality control, but in my opinion B makes much more sense:
Wording in A: meaning = ...to live better than their parents have lived (up to this point, right now in the current timeframe)
Wording in B: meaning = ...to live better than their parents lived when the parents were in the same stage of life that the next generation is in NOW.

B makes much more sense to me.

急!GMATPREP上一道题目不明白！

急!GMATPREP上一道题目不明白！

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