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The computer company has announced that it will purchase the color-printing division of a rival company for $950 million, which is part of a deal that will make it the largest manufacturer in the office color-printing market.

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OG 13 SC68题,对答案有疑义,请NN进来讨论一下!

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发表于 2015-11-11 21:55:29 | 只看该作者 回帖奖励 |倒序浏览 |阅读模式
68. Outlining his strategy for nursing the troubled conglomerate back to health, the chief executive’s plans were announced on Wednesday for cutting the company’s huge debt by selling nearly $12 billion in assets over the next 18 months.
(A) executive’s plans were announced on Wednesday for cutting the company’s huge debt by selling nearly $12 billion in assets over the next 18 months.
(B) executive’s plans, which are to cut the company’s huge debt by selling nearly $12 billion in assets over the next 18 months, were announced on Wednesday
(C) executive’s plans for cutting the company’s huge debt by selling nearly $12 billion in assets over the next 18 months were announced on Wednesday.
(D) executive announced plans Wednesday to cut the company’s huge debt by selling nearly $12 billion in assets over the next 18 months.

(E)  executive announced plans Wednesday that are to cut the company’s huge debt by selling nearly $12 billion in assets over the next 18 months.


对这题的答案选D,我觉得还是有问题的。相比起来,我觉得E的问题更小。
答案D:announced plans to ....,这里,plan是一个名词,所以语意上后面的不定式并不是修饰plan这个名词,而是announce这个动词(manhattan里也说不定式是动词修饰语)。因此这里后面的不定式部分表示了announce的目的,而这个逻辑上肯定不对:announce plans的目的不是cut debt; cut debt靠announce也实现不了。所以这个逻辑上是不对的。即使这个to cut...也可以做名词修饰语,那既可以做名词修饰语修饰plans,也可以做动词修饰语announced,则也有ambigious的问题。

答案E:根据manhattan SC语法里的解释,对于一长串修饰语,that从句要比V-ing、不定式要来得直观,GMAT更偏向于选择that从句。而这里that直接修饰了plans,非常清晰,没有答案D的模糊,所以that are并不wordy。plans are to cut....这个也是合乎语法的。

所以觉得这题答案有争议,翻看论坛里,貌似没有对这里提出疑问的。

关于有答主说plan to do sth,那个是plan是动词,而这里plans是名词。所以不能直接套。

历史贴这里有点:
http://forum.chasedream.com/foru ... &highlight=sc68


请各位NN们看看是否同意我的说法?

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沙发
 楼主| 发表于 2015-11-15 12:56:32 | 只看该作者
没有大仙进来讨论啊,再顶一下,别沉咯。。。
板凳
发表于 2015-11-15 13:29:00 | 只看该作者
1. announced...to do something...
2. announced...that are to do something... (wordy) X
地板
 楼主| 发表于 2015-11-16 10:50:12 | 只看该作者
Classy17 发表于 2015-11-15 13:29
1. announced...to do something...
2. announced...that are to do something... (wordy) X
这里to do修饰的是announced;而that are to修饰的是announced的宾语,不能这样简单的判断后者wordy吧?
两者的逻辑意思不一样。
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发表于 2015-11-16 13:44:15 | 只看该作者
rorkey 发表于 2015-11-16 10:50
这里to do修饰的是announced;而that are to修饰的是announced的宾语,不能这样简单的判断后者wordy吧?
两 ...

我不知道NN们怎么想的 不过这确实是我的思路
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 楼主| 发表于 2015-11-16 23:04:48 | 只看该作者
Classy17 发表于 2015-11-16 13:44
我不知道NN们怎么想的 不过这确实是我的思路

      The computer company has announced that it will purchase the color-printing division of a rival company for $950 million, which is part of a deal that will make it the largest manufacturer in the office color-printing market.

      (A) million, which is part of a deal that will make
      (B) million, a part of a deal that makes
      (C) million, part of a deal making
      (D) million as a part of a deal to make
      (E) million as part of a deal that will make

对比一下这道题,CD里也有不少讨论。主要分析DE答案的异同
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发表于 2015-11-17 10:10:02 | 只看该作者
rorkey 发表于 2015-11-16 23:04
The computer company has announced that it will purchase the color-printing division of a ri ...

这个没什么疑问吧
需要将来时 to make 和 will make 一下就能选出来的吧.
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发表于 2015-11-17 13:09:50 | 只看该作者
楼主是个语法王,sc只看语法会死人。ED没有语法错误,但语意上你不关注啊!plan to do 和 be to do语意不重复了吗,D简洁规避了此问题。og中还有at first ,begin to do。gwd里还有compare to sth compatably,不从语意上看,这些题,你都得抓瞎。看你被sc蹂躏得还不够
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发表于 2016-1-10 11:59:36 | 只看该作者
"(E)...,the words that are extraneous and also suggest that the plans themselves are doing the cutting and selling." From OG
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发表于 2016-1-11 14:50:04 | 只看该作者
我的理解是即使plans are to sell是正确的,但plan主动发出selling这个动作也是不合理的:
executive announced plans Wednesday that (are to cut the company’s huge debt by selling nearly $12 billion in assets over the next 18 months.)括号里的内容都是that的从句成分,that如果指代plans,则把that替换为plans,从句可以还原为plans are to cut the company’s huge debt by selling nearly $12 billion in assets over the next 18 months. plans to do sth我觉得还可以,但是plans作为selling的动作发出者就不符合逻辑了。这句话,如果想用定从的表达方式应该是这样的:
By selling nearly $12 billion in assets over the next 18 months, executive announced plans Wednesday that are to cut the company’s huge debt 这样至少可以消除selling的逻辑主语问题,但是语义又不好了,变成by doing成了announce的一个方式。


所以,还是D最好。

语法题排除的顺序应该是 语法错误--->表达形式错误--->语义(逻辑)错误
这题
第一步根据outline的逻辑主语判断ABC先死,没说的。
第二部看by doing 中doing的逻辑主语,排除E,选D。
总共就一个Decision Points:逻辑主语(或者动作的发出者),应该是一道秒选题。
说白了语法大部分考的就是谁发出的动作(who),做什么了(what),和怎么做的(how)。
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