2月26日的题目答案

In late 1997, the chambers inside the pyramid of the Pharaoh Menkaure at Giza were closed to visitors for cleaning and repair due to moisture exhaled bv tourists, which raised its humidity to such levels so that salt from the stone was crystallizing and fungus was growing on the walls.

(A) due to moisture exhaled by tourists, which raised its humidity to such levels so that salt from the stone was crystallizing
(B) due to moisture that tourists had exhaled, thereby raising its humidity to such levels that salt from the stone would crystallize
(C) because tourists were exhaling moisture, which had raised the humidity within them to levels such that salt from the stone would crystallize
(D) because of moisture that was exhaled by tourists raising the humidity within them to levels so high as to make the salt from the stone crystallize
(E) because moisture exhaled by tourists had raised the humidity within them to such levels that salt from the stone was crystallizing

第一步：划线部分在中间，意识到可能考察细节

第二步：纵向观察选项（收尾），发现了fungus was growing ，完美平行，选择 the stone was

Crystallizing,排除 BCD

第三步：A&E 中，观察because 和due to 的用法。Due to +词组/名词， Because+句子。

答案：A

此题目的语法点：修饰语，定从，并列

Warning that computers in the United States are not secure, the National Academy of Sciences has urged the nation to revamp computer security procedures, institute new emergency response teams, creating a special nongovernment organization to take charge of computer security planning.

(A) creating a special nongovernment organization to take
(B) creating a special nongovernment organization that takes
(C) creating a special nongovernment organization for taking
(D) and create a special nongovernment organization for taking
(E) and create a special nongovernment organization to take

第一步：划线部分在中间，意识到可能考察细节

第二步：纵向观察选项（首尾），考点在creating& and create，往前看，发现revamp、institute。留下and create ，排除 creating，留下DE

第三步：看完句首看句尾，for doing VS to do

Beat Gmat里面的instructor：

To Verb = is used to state specific intent. =In order to do

For verb-ing = is not used to state an intent.

答案：E

此题目的语法点：大美句，并列

Plants are more efficient at acquiring carbon than are fungi, in the form of carbon dioxide, and converting it to energy-rich sugars.

(A) Plants are more efficient at acquiring carbon than are fungi,
(B) Plants are more efficient at acquiring carbon than fungi,
(C) Plants are more efficient than fungi at acquiring carbon,
(D) Plants, more efficient than fungi at acquiring carbon,
(E) Plants acquire carbon more efficiently than fungi,

第一步：划线部分在前面，意识到可能考察大美句，或者是主语结构

第二步：纵向观察选项（首尾），发现 and converting，判断in the form of carbon 是插入语，

主句部分必须有和 converting 并列的成分；E排除

第三步：看到than ，意识到是比较结构省略，比较的对象必须一致；D没有谓语动词,排除

剩下ABC, 考虑in the form of carbon dioxide 修饰的是 at acquiring carbon， 排除AB,

答案： C

此题目的语法点：比较和并列

Dressed as a man and using the name Robert Shurtleff, Deborah Sampson, the first woman to draw a soldier's pension, joined the Continental Army in 1782 at the age of 22 was injured three times, and was discharged in 1783 because she had become too ill to serve.

(A) 22, was injured three times, and was discharged in 1783 because she had become
(B) 22, was injured three times, while being discharged in 1783 because she had become
(C) 22 and was injured three times, and discharged in 1783, being
(D) 22, injured three times, and was discharged in 1783 because she was
(E) 22, having been injured three times and discharged in 1783, being

第一步：划线部分在后面，意识到可能有指代不清

第二步：纵向观察选项（首尾），时态是一个考点在时态，一个考点在逗号

第三步：逗号部分 was injured & was discharged 完美平行， 时态部分had done 在时间轴移前，合适

答案：A

此题目的语法点：大美句，并列，多重修饰

when Congress reconvenes, some newly elected members from rural states will try and establish tighter restrictions for the amount of grain farmers are to be allowed to grow and to encourage more aggressive sales of United States farm products overseas.

(A) and establish tighter restrictions for the amount of grain farmers are to be allowed to grow and to encourage
(B) and establish tighter restrictions on the amount of grain able to be grown by farmers and encouraging
(C) establishing tighter restrictions for the amount of grain farmers are allowed to grow and to encourage
(D) to establish tighter restrictions on the amount of grain capable of being grown by farmers and encouraging
(E) to establish tighter restrictions on the amount of grain farmers will be allowed to grow and to encourage

第一步：划线部分在中间，考虑细节问题

第二步：纵向观察选项（首尾），前无问题，放弃；看尾，发现and to encourage的平行，往前寻找 to grow 或者是 to establish，排除D

第三步:观察ABCE, A 中are to be，错；B中able to be ，错； 剩下CE

第四步：揣摩句意，to establish and to encourage 的主语相同， 均为elected members

答案：E

此题目的语法点：时间状语从句，时态的使用，并列

able to be done；capable of being DONE；unable to be done都是不合理的（有能力被做）

来自manhattan关于try的习语用法：

RIGHT：They will try to build a company（=intent or purpose）

SUSPECT：We tried breaking the door down(=experiment）

WRONG：They WILL TRY AND BUILD a company.

             They WILL TRY THAT THEY BUILD a company.

关于restrictions的用法（manhattan）：提到了只能跟on，跟for必错