OG16 SC18 求大神帮忙解答

Elaine_Eady

Unlike the nests of leaf cutters and most other ants, situated underground or in pieces of wood, raider ants make a portable nest by entwining their long legs to form "curtains" of ants that hang from logs or boulders, providing protection for the queen and the colony larvae and pupae.

(A) the nests of leaf cutters and most other ants

(B) the nests of leaf cutters and most other ants, which are

(C) leaf cutters and most other ants, whose nests are

(D) leaf cutters and most other ants in having nests

(E) those of leaf cutters and most other ants with nests

B. OG 解释是 this sentence compares nests with raider ants. Also, the referent of the relative pronoun which is ambiguous, possibly modifying ants, and possibly modifying nests. 疑惑的是，which不是只能指代离他最近的那个noun吗？- most other ants，还是说这里的结构是“noun+essential modifier, non-essential modifier”,所以which modify的是nest。这两种情况怎么区分呢？

D. in having nests situated underground or in... , 这个modifier修饰的是谁呢？ＯＧ解释是But the "in having nests" suggests that it is raider ants, not leaf cutters and most other ants, that have nests situated underground... However the rest of the sentence indicates that in fact raider ants' nests are not situated in such locations.　这里怎么也想不明白，为什么in having指代的不是前面的ants或者cutters+ants，而是后面的raider ants呢？

谢谢了！

jingliu097

豆腐店的86 发表于 2015-8-20 05:44
http://www.beatthegmat.com/leaf-cutters-and-most-other-ants-in-having-nests-t284776.html
解释了 in- ...

谢谢提供！
总结
in + VERBing is an ADVERB.
Generally, in + VERBing serves to modify the VERB IN THE FOLLOWING CLAUSE.
An adverb cannot serve to modify a noun.
Thus, it is not possible for in having to serve to modify leaf cutters and most other ants (two nouns).
In D, the only eligible referent for in having is make -- the verb in the following clause. Since a VERBing modifier implies CONCURRENT action, the following meaning is conveyed:
When raider ants MAKE A PORTABLE NEST, they are simultaneously HAVING NESTS SITUATED UNDERGROUND OR IN PIECES OF WOOD.
This meaning is nonsensical.
Eliminate D.

helluft

这道题还原前半句貌似是
raider ants are unlike leaf cutters and most other ants in having nests ...这种情况下in doing应该是指向主语的吧

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Jasiding 发表于 2017-3-21 07:39
不知道楼主还在不在纠结这个in doing的问题。 我个人认为原句: unlike....in doing, raider rants....说明r ...

同意！               

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噜啦啦biu

哈哈谢谢 看了前面的Jez提供的链接 感觉清晰很多 写写做题思路好了~~（sorry 把前辈们的帖子挖出来 还码楼）
Unlike the nests of leaf cutters and most other ants, situated underground or in pieces of wood, raider ants make a portable nest by entwining their long legs to form “curtains” of ants that hang from logs or boulders, providing protection for the queen and the colony larvae and pupae.首先重点关注的自然是original 句啦 unlike  XXX ，rader ants make a portable nest ...... 可推知，应当是unlike 后面接的也是ants ,由此直接delete A,B,E
关于剩下的BC ，
Unlike  leaf cutters and most other ants in having nests situated underground or in pieces of wood, raider ants make a portable nest by entwining their long legs to form “curtains” of ants that hang from logs or boulders, providing protection for the queen and the colony larvae and pupae.
由于in doing 是adverb ,修饰的肯定是v ，那么这道题就变成了in doing 修饰的make （ nonsense）  解析如下~~ 这样就违背了correctly~~
by RON（链接前面的前辈已提供）
'in ___ing' means what it always means—it describes something that transpires during, or as part of, the process of '___ing'.
for this to make logical sense, the 'struggle' should be with some smaller aspect of '___ing'.
e.g.,

In translating the poems into Russian, Valery struggled with puns, double meanings, and other forms of wordplay that were impossible to preserve in translation.
[size=14.007px]([size=14.0084px]Valery struggled with wordplay in translating the poems into Russian
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[size=14.0084px]FROM beatthegmat
[size=14.0084px]http://forum.chasedream.com/forum.php?mod=post&action=reply&fid=23&tid=1094515&cedit=yes
[size=14.0084px]in + VERBing is an ADVERB.
Generally, in + VERBing serves to modify the VERB IN THE FOLLOWING CLAUSE.
D: In having nests, situated underground or in pieces of wood, raider ants make a portable nest.
Here, in having seems to modify make -- the action performed by raider ants.
Since a VERBing modifier implies CONCURRENT action, the following meaning is conveyed:
When raider ants MAKE A PORTABLE NEST, they are simultaneously HAVING NESTS SITUATED UNDERGROUND OR IN PIECES OF WOOD.
This meaning is nonsensical.
Eliminate D.
嘻嘻主要还是从语义逻辑上来理解

水晶少女吱

感觉很详细！

Jez

By Ron
'in ___ing' means what it always means—it describes something that transpires during, or as part of, the process of '___ing'.
for this to make logical sense, the 'struggle' should be with some smaller aspect of '___ing'.


e.g.,
In translating the poems into Russian, Valery struggled with puns, double meanings, and other forms of wordplay that were impossible to preserve in translation.
(Valery struggled with wordplay in translating the poems into Russian.)

https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/forums/struggle-in-doing-something-t32190.html

Jasiding

还有在ron视频里面有说过 逗号+which可以修饰前面的 noun 或者 noun+ prep phrase. 这的prep phrase是 of leaf cutter and others ants里面有第二个名词.  因此这里 nests of leaf cutter....  = noun1 + prep phrase (prep + noun2) 的情况下 逗号which可以修饰leaf cutter..... 也可以修饰nests

Jasiding

不知道楼主还在不在纠结这个in doing的问题。 我个人认为原句: unlike....in doing, raider rants....说明raider ants只在in doing...的情况下才跟leaf cutters and other ants不一样. 把倒装句放回去看就比较容易看出来  

raider ants, unlike 一个东西 in having nests underground, make ... by ...... in having修饰的是raider ants.

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helluft 发表于 2015-7-19 15:00
这道题还原前半句貌似是
raider ants are unlike leaf cutters and most other ants in having nests ...这 ...

答主厉害。。。瞬间明白了！感谢感谢！