OG19的一道新题，求大神指点

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Technically, “quicksand” is the term for sand that is so saturated with water as to acquire a liquid's character.

A. that is so saturated with water as to acquire a liquid's character

B. that is so saturated with water that it acquires the character of a liquid

C. that is saturated with water enough to acquire liquid characteristics

D. saturated enough with water so as to acquire the character of a liquid

E. saturated with water so much as to acquire a liquid character



OA: B

林sh

现在sc得考句意解题。
A错在这道题你仔细想会发现要表达的是沙子变得像液体一样，就是拥有了液体的特征，而不是液体的一个特征，因为你不知道A指的一个特征是哪个。
B你可能纠结于两个that放一起读起来怪怪，那就先放一边，继续往下看。
C语义也错了，with water enough to。。。指的是拥有足够的水，足够到能拥有液体的特征，显然原文表达的是沙子拥有了液体特征而不是还没拥有。
D用so as to 来表达目的（代替了in order to）这种表达是错的，只能so加形容词加as to。
E表达的是浸泡了太多水，原文表达的是浸泡的程度高而不是水多（听起来有点绕，但确实不同意思），而且后面 a liquid character 这表达也错误。
总结就是现在肯定考语义做题，prep08和曼哈顿那些点感觉考得没原来那么明显。
我下周三考，希望能积点人品吧hh

雪梨加油

A. that is so saturated with water as to acquire a liquid's character
想表达“太..,以至于..."的意思，应该用so that.
而且 "of" 结构一般来说都优于 " 's" 结构，因为这样表达更清晰 避免歧义   （练了很多很多题总结出来的，如果有范例请指正哈”

B. that is so saturated with water that it acquires the character of a liquid
标准的so that句式

C. that is saturated with water enough to acquire liquid characteristics
enough to的句式怪怪的。。 不如so that好用

D. saturated enough with water so as to acquire the character of a liquid

E. saturated with water so much as to acquire a liquid character
根据语义明显应该用“如此..以至于..”的句式嘛，这个so much as to实在太不简洁了

awsd987654

林sh 发表于 2018-7-5 19:52
现在sc得考句意解题。
A错在这道题你仔细想会发现要表达的是沙子变得像液体一样，就是拥有了液体的特征，而 ...

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awsd987654

Jodieee 发表于 2018-7-6 08:20
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我没有OG19，这道题我也是在GMATclub上看到的

zeru

发表于 2018-07-05 18:57:22
Technically, “quicksand” is the term for sand that...

看一下

yammm

林sh 发表于 2018-7-5 19:52
现在sc得考句意解题。
A错在这道题你仔细想会发现要表达的是沙子变得像液体一样，就是拥有了液体的特征，而 ...

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克膺鸿瑞

个人觉得这个回答比较好。尤其是so   as to 和   so    that的区别之前很少关注到。

There are several reasons to eliminate A and choose B.

so X as to Y implies that Y SEEMS TO BE TRUE.
Official examples:
Climatic shifts are so gradual as to be indistinguishable from ordinary fluctuations in the weather.
The features of the idealized sculpture portrait are so unrealistic as to constitute what one scholar calls an "artificial face."
In each case, the blue portion is something that SEEMS TO BE TRUE about the preceding subject in red.

so X that Y implies that Y ACTUALLY HAPPENS.
An official example:
Everyday life is so brisk that it hampers the ability of some children to distinguishing discrete sounds.
Here, the blue portion is something that ACTUALLY HAPPENS -- an action that is actually performed by the preceding subject in red.

A key difference between the two idioms:
Whereas in the second idiom Y can serve to express an actual action, in the first idiom it cannot.
In the first idiom, Y must serve to express not an actual action but merely something that SEEMS TO BE TRUE about the preceding subject.

A: so saturated with water as to acquire a liquid's character
Here, so X as to Y incorrectly serves to express the action in red.
As noted above, Y in this idiom must serve to express not an actual action but merely something that seems to be true about the preceding subject.

Moreover, the usage of so X as to Y implies that the portion in red does not actually happen.
Not the intended meaning.
A person can DROWN in quicksand.
Thus, quicksand actually DOES acquire the character of a liquid.
To express this meaning, we should use so X that Y, as in the OA:
"Quicksand"...is so saturated with water that it acquires the character of a liquid.

Another issue:

A dog's eyes can reveal much about its temperament.
Here, the phrase in blue implies that every dog has UNIQUE eyes -- eyes that can reveal much about the dog's temperament.

A: a liquid's character
This phrase seems to imply that every liquid has a UNIQUE character.
Not the intended meaning.
The intention here is to discuss the general nature of any given liquid.
The OA correctly expresses this meaning:
"Quicksand"... is so saturated with water that it acquires the character of a liquid.
Here, THE CHARACTER of a liquid = the general nature of any given liquid.

For all these reasons, eliminate A.