[讨论]大全 23

薰衣紫草

大全23.   In June of 1989, Princeton Township approved a developer’s plans to build 300 houses on a large portion of the 210-acre site of the Battle of Princeton, one of only eight Revolutionary War battlefields that had remained undeveloped.

(A) one of only eight Revolutionary War battlefields that had remained undeveloped

(B) one of eight of the only Revolutionary War battlefields that have remained undeveloped

(C) one of the only eight undeveloped Revolutionary War battlefields that remains

(D) only one of eight Revolutionary War battlefields to remain undeveloped（A）

(E) only one of the eight remaining undeveloped Revolutionary War battlefields

标准答案是A, 没有异议.

但我认为only前面应该有the, 因为后面跟了限定性修饰, 表明特指. 就象OG里的两个例子:

OG154. In 1791 Robert Carter III, one of the wealthiest plantation owners in Virginia, stunned his family, friends, and neighbors by filing a deed of emancipation, setting free the more than 500 slaves who were legally considered his property.

(A) setting free the more than 500 slaves who were legally considered

(B) setting free more than the 500 slaves legally considered as

(C) and set free more than 500 slaves, who were legally considered as

(D) and set free more than the 500 slaves who were legally considered（A）

(E) and he set free the more than 500 slaves who were legally considered as

OG176. As a result of the ground-breaking work of Barbara McClintock, many scientists now believe that all of the information encoded in 50,000 to 100,000 of the different genes found in a human cell are contained in merely three percent of the cell’s DNA.

(A) 50,000 to 100,000 of the different genes found in a human cell are contained in merely

(B) 50,000 to 100,000 of the human cell’s different genes are contained in a mere

(C) the 50,000 to 100,000 different genes found in human cells are contained in merely

(D) 50,000 to 100,000 of human cells’ different genes is contained in merely（E）

(E) the 50,000 to 100,000 different genes found in a human cell is contained in a mere

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Avantasia

答案是比较出来的, 除了A, 其他的错误因该说是明显的.

the的问题, 我是这样看, 首先好像即使要加, 也要说成the only one of, 这样才idiomatic.

大全中的这题, 这里的only已经起到了限定的作用, 所以再用the感觉是重复的, 而且费话一句, 这种细枝末节的语法点太难以掌握, 不要太看重.

薰衣紫草

我认为the only....与only the的意思是不一样的

the only one of eight Revolutionary War battlefields....从句的谓语动词是单数

one of the only eight Revolutionary War battlefields....从句的谓语动词是复数

Avantasia

但是GMAT语法中似乎没有出现过one of the only 的说法, 连GRE和GMAT的阅读都没有出现过, 基本可以肯定是不好的用法.