GWD 答案

sunfish223

GWD-9-Q27:

Scientists have identified an asteroid, 2000 BF19, that is about half a mile wide and, if it strikes Earth, it can do tremendous damage to part of the planet but probably not cause planetwide destruction.

A.and, if it strikes Earth, it can do tremendous damage to part of the planet but

B.and, if it would strike Earth, part of the planet could experience a tremendous amount of damage but it would

C.and that, if it were to strike Earth, could do tremendous damage to part of the planet but would

D.and that, if Earth is struck by it, can do part of the planet tremendous damage, but it would

      E..and that, if it strikes Earth, it could experience a tremendous amount of damage but

正确答案C 为什么E 不对呢 @@

GWD-9-Q17:

Unlike most other mergers in the utility industry, which have been driven by the need to save money and extend companies’ service areas, the merger of the nation’s leading gas and electric company is intended to create a huge marketing network for the utilities in question with states opening their utility markets to competition.

A.and electric company is intended to create a huge marketing network for the utilities in question with states opening

B.and electric companies are intended to create a huge network for marketing the utilities in question as states open

C.and electric companies are intended to create a huge network that will be marketing the utilities in question, with states opening

D.company and electric company are intending to create a huge marketing network for the utilities in question, with states opening

     E  company and leading electric company is intended to create a huge network for marketing the utilities in question as states open

记得在GWD 31 上面的答案是A TN24 里给的答案是 E 到底哪个对呢 请大侠们帮我分析下  谢啦！

GWD-9-Q17:

Unlike most other mergers in the utility industry, which have been driven by the need to save money and extend companies’ service areas, the merger of the nation’s leading gas and electric company is intended to create a huge marketing network for the utilities in question with states opening their utility markets to competition.

A.and electric company is intended to create a huge marketing network for the utilities in question with states opening

B.and electric companies are intended to create a huge network for marketing the utilities in question as states open

C.and electric companies are intended to create a huge network that will be marketing the utilities in question, with states opening

D.company and electric company are intending to create a huge marketing network for the utilities in question, with states opening

     E  company and leading electric company is intended to create a huge network for marketing the utilities in question as states open

记得在GWD 31 上面的答案是A TN24 里给的答案是 E 到底哪个对呢 请大侠们帮我分析下  谢啦！

好色之图

manhattan的解释很有说服力，因为 "with states opening..."  前面没有逗号，句子的意思就变成只是指那些 "opening their utility markets to competition" 的states, 意思不对

ccfish9

A的问题在于gas and electric company表示同一家公司没办法合并，但是我对E的for marketing the utilities 有疑问，在GMAT中for doing表目的不是绝对禁止的么？

谁回答我下，谢谢！

MMzoejiang

GWD-9-Q27:

if 后面的是虚拟语气，要用过去时态，E中的is明显不对了。

Ensdart

楼上manhattan那个我也看了，我觉得他说的挺对的，不过在我们都不知道merger的本意的时候确实不太好区分A和E选项。

潜寒

感觉到一点，gmat各个部分非常重要的还是理解逻辑

潜寒

这是manhattan里的解释

there are a couple of things wrong with (a):
* "leading gas and electric company" is wrong; if you read this literally (which is the only way that you should ever read it), then it implies rather clearly (and wrongly) that we're talking about one company, which handles both gas and electric.
(we know this is wrong because the problem is about a merger. one company can't have a merger by itself.)
there are two ways to fix this. first, there's the way it's fixed in (e), which is a bit clumsy/wordy but is the most precise fix. second, you could write "leading gas and electric companies", which is more compact but sacrifices a bit of meaning (i.e., in that construction you can't tell whether there are just 2 companies, as you can in (e)).
* "with states opening..." is incorrect. when you have an -ING WITHOUT COMMA modifier, like this one, it's a RESTRICTIVE ("essential") modifier. this means that we're only talking about those states that are "opening their utility markets to competition", the implication being that only some states are doing so. the intended meaning is better conveyed by "as states open..."

(e) doesn't have this problem.

crazyxxx

GWD-9-Q27:
定语从句并列,而且定语从句修饰的成分在从句中做主语,所以从句中如果再出现主语那就是错误的...

GWD-9-Q17:
应该是E吧,感觉哪里看到过...
A. with作为伴随解释,with states opening感觉有点奇怪. huge形容对象有点模糊,是形容市场还是形容网络.
E. as引导时间吧, 当国家开放utlity市场参与竞争的时候,整合用来建立一个拓展xxx市场的网络. a huge network for marketing utility,意思比较清楚.

个人感觉,请nn来解释

sunfish223

额 哪位大侠帮帮忙呀 @@