OG17 803求问关于比较？

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OG17 803
In the major cities of industrialized countries at the end of the nineteenth century, important public places such as theaters, restaurants, shops, and banks had installed electric lighting, but electricity was in less than 1 percent of homes, where lighting was still provided mainly by candles or gas.
(A) electricity was in less than 1 percent of homes, where lighting was still
(B) electricity was in less than 1 percent of homes and lighting still
(C) there had been less than 1 percent of homes with electricity, where lighting was still being
(D) there was less than 1 percent of homes that had electricity, having lighting that was still
(E) less than 1 percent of homes had electricity, where lighting had still been

答案是A!!

有两个问题请教亲爱的CDer！
1）提主干之后places had installedlighting, but   按照平行的原则划线部分不应该也是一个place吗？（这里不就是home？）
places had installedlighting, but electricity was in…不会很奇怪吗

2）comma+where是只能修饰就近名词吗？

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Bradz 发表于 2016-11-21 08:16
and/but这类的连词只是表示了一种前后的关系，并不一定是代表比较。连词前后的并列更多是从语法的角度，不 ...

get！！谢谢呀~

Bradz

and/but这类的连词只是表示了一种前后的关系，并不一定是代表比较。连词前后的并列更多是从语法的角度，不是从语意的角度。语义上，前后只要有某种（并列，转折，因果）关系，就可以。

像这道题，前半句的主语是许多重要的地方，但后半句的主语其实是电。不能通过主语的变换就说他语意不同；语法上更没有错。所以，对，这不是必要的排除点。

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Bradz 发表于 2016-11-19 12:05
1）and/but这些连词后面的主语不一定要和之前的主语平行，比如I pressed the power button but the compute ...

谢谢了！！我还以为只有comma+which才有就近修饰的死要求，没想到where、what这种的都是！！

还想确认一下连词的一般用法是不是并列：1.两个独立的句子 2. 共用主语的谓语部分 3.共用主谓的宾语部分  

但是连词本身并不可以作为比较的标志？

因为我开始理解的but比较是这样的：A goes to work by bus everyday but B drives his car这种的，A和B作比较。
就像OG里的这个句子：
While the cost of running nuclear plants is about the same as for other types of power plants, the fixed costs that stem from building nuclear plants make the electricity they generate more expensive.
也是两个cost放在对等的位置上比较，这样看上去比较有逻辑。

这里句子可以翻译成：在19世纪工业化国家的主要城市里，许多重要的地方如银行、剧院都已经用上了电灯，但是在居民家里，用电的只占1%，大多数照明还是靠蜡烛或者煤油灯。

所以这个不是必要的排除点么？

Bradz

1）and/but这些连词后面的主语不一定要和之前的主语平行，比如I pressed the power button but the computer didn't turn on.

连词前后要求平行的一般是动词，特别是在主语不变的情况下，比如I pressed the power button but forgot to turn on the main switch, so the computer didnt turn on.

2）是的，gmat对which，where，when此类的要求就是比一般死板。