求教~PREP07-sc01-82

小唯唯

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Each year companies in the United States could save as much as $58 billion annually by preventing illness among employees and gain as much as $200 billion through improving performance of workers if they simply provided offices with cleaner air.
(A) annually by preventing illness among employees and gain as much as $200 billion through improving performance of workers if they simply provided
(B) annually if they prevented employee illness and gain as much as $200 billion through worker performance improved by simply providing
(C) annually in employee illness prevention and gain as much as $200 billion through worker performance improved by simply providing
(D) in employee illness prevention and gain as much as $200 billion through improving performance of workers if they simply provided
(E) by preventing illness among employees and gain as much as $200 billion through improved worker performance if they simply provided

正确答案是E 但是我想问E 中 if they simply..中they不会指代不清么？  ABC因为同义重复可以排除掉，但是DE中后面都是they...这个they不能指代employees 而造成误解么？

lylove47

小唯唯 发表于 2011-3-13 19:25
save...by搭配是合适的，in 则错误；they 理论上可以指代workers, employees，但是理解上是指代 compani ...

是的，这里的they确实不是最佳的用法，可能补出来the companies会是更佳的选项，但是E是在ABCD里面最佳的选项了，所以选E。并且代词指代这个问题除了非常明显的错误，比如题中没有单数名词，出来一个it，没有指代对象，又或者they在句子前面指代A，如果在句子末尾又出现一个they逻辑上指代B，这些都算是代词指代的明显错误，但是对于有多个复数名词，they可能指代不清的这一条判断依据在gmat中并不是最强烈最强有力的，所以最先开始都不要用这一条来排除答案。

emilyyangf

顶同问！！！

小唯唯

save...by搭配是合适的，in 则错误；

they 理论上可以指代workers, employees，
但是理解上是指代 companies,
因为they provided ...跟 they could save..by...,
(could) gain ... through ...的方向是一致的。

-- by 会员 geegee (2011/3/13 13:32:39)

恩……这样我可以理解。但我总觉得，如果有一个比他更好的话，指代清晰地话，是不是还是要把它排除？

geegee

save...by搭配是合适的，in 则错误；

they 理论上可以指代workers, employees，
但是理解上是指代 companies,
因为they provided ...跟 they could save..by...,
(could) gain ... through ...的方向是一致的。

小唯唯

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