求助-GWD13里的一道语法题

Jagabee

Research during the past several decades on the nature of language and the processes that produce and make it understandable has revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity.

(A) that produce and make it understandable has revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity
(B) of producing and understanding it have revealed not underlying simplicity but great complexity
(C) by which it is produced and understood has revealed not underlying simplicity but great complexity
(D) by which it is produced and understood have revealed great complexity rather than underlying simplicity
(E) by which one produces and understands it have revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity

争议主要在A和C之间.

我选C，kkk上答案为C, 在CD下载的excel答案上为A, gmatclub上A/C各半吧.

各位高手选什么?

咖啡印象

http://gmat.la/question/GMATLA-SC-133  

Jagabee

咖啡印象 发表于 2017-2-6 17:51
http://gmat.la/question/GMATLA-SC-133

谢谢回复. 我看了下链接，觉得C因为“pronoun ambiguity”不成立的理由较弱.

我重看了下句子，觉得可能C如果有问题，不是在于it不能指代the language, 而是the language is understood by the processes不成立. A中的the processes that make the language understandable符合逻辑些.
但是processes做主语produce and make the langague understandable, 似乎也同样不合理.

spings

IMO，这里有一个很常识很常识的对process词义理解问题。Process是什么？是“为实现目标而实施的一系列行动”，所以一个一个 过程产生了语言，并使语言被理解。这是完全说得通的。C选项的问题就在于逻辑主语的不一致。

Jagabee

spings 发表于 2017-2-7 20:44
IMO，这里有一个很常识很常识的对process词义理解问题。Process是什么？是“为实现目标而实施的一系列行动 ...

谢谢回复！能请您细说下C选项的逻辑主语问题么？

spings

Jagabee 发表于 2017-2-22 00:00
谢谢回复！能请您细说下C选项的逻辑主语问题么？

C还原一下就是 it (language) is understood by the processes, 再对比A, the process make it understandable.
这是两个完全不同的意思， 不是“语言被过程理解了”， 而是过程使得语言可以被（人）理解。

Jagabee

spings 发表于 2017-2-22 16:58
C还原一下就是 it (language) is understood by the processes, 再对比A, the process make it understan ...

明白了，非常感谢!!

穆汐寒

spings 发表于 2017-2-22 16:58
C还原一下就是 it (language) is understood by the processes, 再对比A, the process make it understan ...

那假如，C选项里的by which 改成through which 呢？这个逻辑对吗？

spings

穆汐寒 发表于 2017-3-2 16:23
那假如，C选项里的by which 改成through which 呢？这个逻辑对吗？

through which? 何解？介词不对，逻辑主语也不对。

nana2012two

C用语言不简单就排出了，A更简洁