Gwd28-01

titatita

以下是引用shanexin在2006-4-9 12:40:00的发言：

33. From the earliest days of the tribe, kinship determined the way in which the Ojibwa society organized its labor, provided access to its resources, and defined rights and obligations involved in the distribution and consumption of those resources.

67.Congress is debating a bill requiring certain employers provide workers with unpaid leave so as to care for sick or newbom children.

174. A letter by Mark Twain, written in the same year as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn were published, reveals that Twain provided financial assistance to one of the first Black students at Yale Law School.

48. Choice D, like A, fails to provide a noun or pronoun to perform the action of living, but even with its the phrases would be more awkward and less clear than it lives.

From OG10th, we could find 4 usage of 'provide'

1.provide sth to sth

2.provide sb with sth

3.provide sth to sb

4.provide sth to do sth

既然没有查到provide sth for doing sth的用法，那可不可能是provide sth(clues to...or clues for...),也就是clues后面的介词是紧跟clues的搭配？很可惜，google上只能查到clues to，查不到clues for的用法

so, i vote for C!

agree

cournot

agree with joe in 19楼,

cambridge dictionary: We have concerns about whether the government will be able to provide viable social services for poorer families/provide poorer families with viable social services

provide sth for sb

eejensen

B is the key

wcfang

以下是引用joe11在2005-12-18 14:56:00的发言：

I agree with E.

'to' is not proper here. （effective error）

Scientists claim the discovery could provide clues

    To （目的是为了，做之前有明确目的） determine

    for (为...提供线索，做之前不知道目的）determining

to 是修饰provide, 表示提供这个cue的目的，代回原题，逻辑语意清悉正确

for跟着cue，表示cue给的对象，给的对象要是人，不是动作，所以在本题不适用

verb form是这题主要的决定因素，即使C有些点wordy，仍是比E的错误好，

本题建议选C

maggiecookies

 我也选C, 理由是 provide to do......

michaelyun

clues to的确是固定搭配，是××的线索，那么这句话里直接clues to how and when mammals...就可以了。所以这里并不是考这个固定搭配，而是为了for determining....

另外C中they的指代问题还是比较大的问题，即便认为they不会引起歧义，那么when they did后面也应该加so.

in short, vote for E

maggiecookies

以前选C的, 几天又好好看了讨论帖, 觉得E比C好.

C: 1. they 的指代问题

   2. 有人说, did 后缺SO

   3. 不够简洁

E: provide sth for some purpose.....某人查到有此用法,

综合上述, 我改选E

zzlz

个个口口生生说查过字典有provide to do......

是不是真的啊.我怎么没看见的!!?????

你们再拿langman翻看看?

pro‧vide
            S1
            W1 [transitive]

1
            to give something to someone or make it available to them, because they need it or want it [↪ provision]:

Tea and biscuits will be provided.

provide something for somebody
            

The hotel
                        provides
                    a shoe-cleaning
                    service
                    for guests.

provide somebody with something
            

The project is designed to provide young people with work.

2
            to produce something useful as a result:

We are hoping the enquiry will provide an explanation for the accident.

provide somebody with something
            

The search provided the police with several vital clues.

3
            provide that
            formalSCL
            if a law or rule provides that something must happen, it states that it must happen

provide against something
                    phrasal verb

to make plans in order to deal with a bad situation that might happen:

Health insurance will provide against loss of income if you become ill.

provide for somebody/something
                    phrasal verb

1
                to give someone the things they need to live, such as money, food etc:

Without work, how can I provide for my children?

2
                formalSCL
                if a law, rule, or plan provides for something, it states that something will be done and makes it possible for it to be done:

The new constitution provides for a 650-seat legislature.

3
                formal
                to make plans in order to deal with something that might happen in the future:

Commanders failed to provide for an attack by sea.

[此贴子已经被作者于2007-1-4 18:33:50编辑过]

yale_qiu

这道题本来在C和E之间摇摆，查了LONGMAN后，发现正确答案应该是B

首先，这里只是provide sth.的用法，而且所谓provide sth. for (目的）的用法LONGMAN里查不到，暂且排除。

其次，clue后的介词应由clue词组来决定。

clue的用法有clue to\about\in（前2者似乎比较常见），但是这题中突出的问题是C中的to之后是动词，无论是google 还是LONGMAN都没找到clue to do的用法（唯一近似的用法是Both bone shapes and muscle structure provide clues to identifying the part of the carcass from which a cut is derived.）。至于clue for,实在是没找到类似的用法。

再回过头看B,clue in determination，但是我觉得也有问题，

1）ETS不prefer有动词形式的名词

2）被动结构

但是觉得其他几个实在找不出支持的理由，只能选它了

NN指教

prllrpnt

晕， 这道题还有人讨论吗？ 我想选E的，但是又有点怀疑了！