OG 13 - SC 99 - A选项

waytous

The stars, some of them at tremendous speeds, are in motion just as the planets are, yet being *so far away from the Earth that their apparent positions in the sky do not change enough for their movement to be observed during a single human lifetime.

A) The stars, some of them at tremendous speeds, are in motion just as the planets are, yet being

B) Like the planets, the stars are in motion, some of them at tremendous speeds, but they are

C) Although like the planets the stars are in motion, some of them at tremendous speeds, yet

D) As the planets, the stars are in motion, some of them at tremendous speeds, but they are

E) The stars are in motion like the planets, some of which at tremendous speeds are in motion but

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正确答案是B



A选项中，
1. 我把some of them at tremendous speeds看做插入语，说明一部分速度非常快；之后的are in motion...才从语法上面正式介绍是移动速度快；
2. 我把yet being看做是跳过中间一段，直接去修饰The stars。由于前面主谓宾已经都出现了，此处只能用being重新引导一个从句，去修饰The stars。


基于以上两点，我没能把A否决。
请高手针对我的这两点理解予以批驳。多谢！

DesmondWang

不是高手，说一下自己的看法
对于1，
首先从语法角度，我觉得就像解释里所说的，the stars需要谓语直接跟在他后面表达比较直接。”This alternative construction would lead the reader to expect the verb are immediately following the subject, and then the completion of the clause, in motion“
从meanning的角度 some of them at tremendous speeds是absolute phrases,修饰整个stars are in motion这个动作，但是现在如果把主谓分开，some of them at tremendous speeds变成在修饰stars了，stars本身不能 at tremendous speeds,只有他以tremendous speeds来运动。
对于2，
如果按楼主所说yet being是直接修饰主语，那这个being不是引导从句，而是做modifier，那意思变成了peceding clause是造成后面这个so far away from earth的原因。yet是转折词，而V-ing是表示前者对后者的影响，两个意思本来就不兼容，一般不能一起用，除非前面也出现doing或being的形式来与它平行。这里其实就是yet前后平行，前面出现主谓，后面也要出现主谓，就如BUT的用法。另外， 个人觉得其实being不能直接修饰stars，最多只能说它的逻辑主语是stars，我没记错的话，国外的instructor写的都是说修饰preceding clause，或者是最近的noun
选B

seeingyou

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Hendy

DUKB24 发表于 2013-2-11 10:39
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zzloveyibo

waytous 发表于 2013-1-17 10:02
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第一点有点不同意，贴上国外网站大牛的解析


1.) Notice that the end of some of the answers include a subject/verb, so check sentence structure. ABCD each uses ", but" or ", yet" and each of these requires an independent clause on each side (S/V ", but" S/V). There is no verb after the underlined part, so we need a subject/verb in the answer after the ", but" or ", yet". This knocks out A and C. E doesn't need to be eliminated, because we don't have a comma before "but"

2.) We see "like" and "as" in the beginning, so comparisons are being tested. "like" needs to be followed by a noun. "as" can be followed by a noun or a subject/verb, but it is NOT a comparison if it is followed by a noun - it is describing function. Because we are comparing how the stars are in motion to how the planets are in motion, "as" needs to be followed by a subject/verb if it is used.

3.) The order of "stars" and "planets" changes, which usually indicates a modifier-related meaning issue. Here the sentence is intending to tell us that the "stars" are "so far away from the Earth", not the "planets".

The stars, some of them at tremendous speeds, are in motion just as the planets are, yet being so far away from the Earth that their apparent positions in the sky do not change enough for their movement to be observed during a single human lifetime.

A) The stars, some of them at tremendous speeds, are in motion just as the planets are, yet being - "being" doesn't make this wrong. In fact, the GMAT sometimes starts a clause using being if it is trying to use the state of being something as the subject. What makes this answer wrong is the lack of a subject/verb after the ", yet"

B) Like the planets, the stars are in motion, some of them at tremendous speeds, but they are - There is a subject/verb after ", but" and there is proper use of "like". Also, the modifier "some of them" is properly modifying "stars". Don't worry that "them" might be a little ambiguous ("stars" or "planets") because ambiguity is a lower priority than improper sentence structure, improper like/as usage, and improper meaning from improper modifier placement.

C) Although like the planets the stars are in motion, some of them at tremendous speeds, yet - Again, no verb after ", yet"

D) As the planets, the stars are in motion, some of them at tremendous speeds, but they are - "as" is followed by a noun, so it describes the function that the stars are performing, which is not the intended meaning of the sentence

E) The stars are in motion like the planets, some of which at tremendous speeds are in motion but - The modifier "some of which" is describing planets as being far away from the Earth. This is not the intended meaning of the sentence.

justingz

kandaan看答案

yumozo

请问b中的 them 和 they 不会有指代不明确的现象吗？？

未来你听见了吗

我还有个问题，这里的some of them 中的them为什么不会出现指代歧义呢？新人求指教~~~

晓澜静荷

DUKB24 发表于 2013-2-11 12:12
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panpan773

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