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pyndick

22. Although dozens of New York's small museums are either devoted to local history or various ethnic groups, there are many one-of-a-kind museums from Manhattan to the Bronx that are open for exploration on summer weekends.
(A) Although dozens of New York's small museums are either devoted to local history or various ethnic groups, there are
(B) Although dozens of New York's small museums are devoted to local history or various ethnic groups
(C) Dozens of New York's small museums are devoted to local history or various ethnic groups, but there are
(D) Dozens of New York's small museums are devoted to local history or various ethnic groups, and there are also
(E) Devoted to local history or various ethnic groups, dozens of New York's small museums and also
B or D? 另外，哪位能解释一下什么叫one-of-a-kind?
我可能是句子理解不到位

大傻猫

我怎么觉得是A呢,是不是有什么公理呢?

kathy72

我也觉得是A。如果选B，缺少THERE　ARE　句子没有主谓语，不完整。两句之间是明显的转折关系，D也不对。C改变了句子重心。

shopboy

B肯定不对，这样后面半句就没有谓语了
还是A在语法上和意思上都比较完整
C和D的话，意思上中感觉怪怪的

shinogigi

我发现很多KPLAN的题PR里的题。有凶狠多和补充材料的题目相似，但是答案不一样
比如这到题
(although most modern-day amercian parks are either modeled on "romantic" unspoiled landscape or english garden, there are) other park designs from the italian baroque or islamic traditions that are equally worth of imitation.
a although most modern-day amercian parks are either modeled on "romantic" unspoiled landscape or english garden, there are
b although most modern-day amercian parks are modeled on "romantic" unspoiled landscape or english garden,
c most modern-day amercian parks are either modeled on "romantic" unspoiled landscape or english garden, there are
d although most modern-day amercian parks are modeled on "romantic" unspoiled landscape or english garden, and there are aslo
e modeled on "romantic" unspoiled landscape or english garden, most modern-day amercian parks and aslo

答案是A

dl7801

Although dozens of New York's small museums are either devoted to local history or various ethnic groups, there are many one-of-a-kind museums from Manhattan to the Bronx that are open for exploration on summer weekends.
(A) Although dozens of New York's small museums are either devoted to local history or various ethnic groups, there are
(B) Although dozens of New York's small museums are devoted to local history or various ethnic groups
(C) Dozens of New York's small museums are devoted to local history or various ethnic groups, but there are
(D) Dozens of New York's small museums are devoted to local history or various ethnic groups, and there are also
(E) Devoted to local history or various ethnic groups, dozens of New York's small museums and also
B or D? 另外，哪位能解释一下什么叫one-of-a-kind?

The answer should be D.

The structure of choice A, "...either devoted to local history or various ethnic groups ...", violates the parallel principle. If we rewrite chioce A as "...devoted to either local history or various ethnic groups...", the structure of it will be parallel.

Besides lacking a necessary comma, chioce B also lacks "there are" to generate a  integrated sentence, and we even cannot find a predicate in the main sentence.  Chioce E has no predicate in the main sentence as well.

Without any grammar errors, choice C, however, unreasonably implies that "small museums" is contrast to "one-of-a-kind museums" by using "but" rather than "and".

We normally use "one-of-a-kind" to describe something that is special beacuse there is nothing exactly like it.  

midnight

excellent explanations!

木川

如果是这样，那么五楼朋友的句子又如何解释呢？

shinogigi

我觉得很糊涂啊，我作princetion review还做到一道题目，就是和新东方补充材料上的
it is an oversimpled view of cattle raising to say that_____________________drive them to market when the time is ripe.
a all  one has to do with cattle is leave them alone while they feed themselves, corral them, and to
b all  one has to do with cattle is to leave them alone to feed themselves, to corral them, and
c all  one has to do with cattle is leave them alone while they feed themselves and then corral them and
d the only thing that has to be done with cattle is leave them alone while they feed themselves, corral them, and
e the only thing that has to be done with cattle is to leave them alone while they feed themselves, to corral them,
补充材料的答案是c 但是pricention上是一道题目和这个一模一样就是缓换了几个名词而已，结构是完全一样的，他选的是d                    

dl7801

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我发现很多KPLAN的题PR里的题。有凶狠多和补充材料的题目相似，但是答案不一样
比如这到题
(although most modern-day amercian parks are either modeled on "romantic" unspoiled landscape or english garden, there are) other park designs from the italian baroque or islamic traditions that are equally worth of imitation.
a although most modern-day amercian parks are either modeled on "romantic" unspoiled landscape or english garden, there are
b although most modern-day amercian parks are modeled on "romantic" unspoiled landscape or english garden,
c most modern-day amercian parks are either modeled on "romantic" unspoiled landscape or english garden, there are
d although most modern-day amercian parks are modeled on "romantic" unspoiled landscape or english garden, and there are aslo
e modeled on "romantic" unspoiled landscape or english garden, most modern-day amercian parks and aslo

答案是A

In this case, chioce B and E lack predicate in their main sentence respectively, and in chioce C, a comma falsely connects two independent sentence, and also, chioce D falsely use "and"  to connect a subordinate clause with main sentence.

In a nutshell, chioce B,C,D, and E even cannot generate an intergrated sentence, so we only have chioce A, which although has obvious errors according to ETS, it is at least an integrated sentence.
In real questions from ETS and real test, however, you won't  meet such situation as above.


Sometimes, we are really confusing with the different answers and explanations among the different reviewing materials even for a same kind of question, and in such situation, we have to keep ourselves from indulging in these non-real questions and back to real ones.
Actually, we can find obvious hints that both Kaplan and Princeton try to design questions similar to those of ETS, sometimes, even simply mimic those of ETS, especially for SC. Unlike ETS, which has a team of prestigious language specialists to design every question, and organizes peer reviews before using them, and finally each question will be qualified in the real GMAT tests, other organizations, such as Princeton, have no such affluent resources and  rigorous process to guarantee the correctness of their questions and consistency with ETS. This  is the reason why OG is the most valuable and only dependable reviewing material especially for SC. For other non-real questions, we have to analyze them case by case.
Becasue every question from New Oriental School is a real one, according to its claim, we have to pay more attention for those  from New Oriental School than for those from other resources.

As far as your second question, chioce C is right; its structure is " all one has to do is do sth, do sth and do sth", and you can find further explanation in LZM.

good Luck!

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