求问一道句意题 from 700-800 club

1998JIN

One characteristic of top-performing sales organizations is that they have a tendency to have concentrated greater resources in the direction of a smaller, more careful selection of a number of important customers than is the case with other sales organizations.
  
• that they have a tendency to have concentrated greater resources in the direction of a smaller, more careful selection of a number of important customers than is the case with
• that they tend to concentrate more resources to a smaller, more careful selection of a number of important customers than toward
• that they have a tendency to concentrate more resources on a smaller, more careful selection of a number of important customers as opposed to
• that they tend to concentrate more resources on a smaller, more carefully selected number of important customers than do
• the tendency to concentrate a greater amount of resources on a careful and small selection of a number of important customers as opposed to







答案选择是D 我一开始也觉得是D 后来觉得这个elected修饰了number 没有修饰customers 是错的，误改选了E 。。
求问，此处elected的修饰问题。。。
感谢！！！

一起从头开始

selected就是修饰number。楼主是不是没有理解选项意思。
选项D=> concentrate on sth
sth=a smaller, more carefully selected number of important customers

HoganTong

以后问SC题的麻烦把下划线加上吧，看着好累。。。

lz说的没错，从语义来说more carefully selected确实更适合修饰customers，如果有人质疑这一点的话请比较more carefully selected number of customers和more carefully selected group of customers，你们觉得哪个好？

但是E有更严重的问题，它改变了原句的意思，原句不仅说了好机构在carefully selected customer身上投入更多资源，而且好机构的这个selection更careful，E没有说后面这条。另外the tendency多少还是有点不清晰，到底是谁的tendency呢？这道题因为common sense告诉我们在more carefully selected customers身上投入更多资源应该是个好事，所以tendency肯定是好机构的，假设营销策略换成一个模棱两可的，还是会有些歧义的。

GMAC在出题的时候，尤其是出SC题的时候，是抓主要矛盾出考点，次要矛盾能完善就完善，完善不了就算了。所以carefully selected虽然逻辑上确实修饰customer更好，但是在这道题中属于次要矛盾，GMAC经常为了不让句子读起来拗口就忽视次要矛盾。

举个例子，我们都知道mahattan说where只能修饰真实的客观的地点，不能用来修饰虚拟的地点，比如family, society, destination等词是不能用where来修饰的，虚拟地点只能用that。但以下这个句子中用where是可以的：Jin is dedicated to work for a NGO that benefits the disabled community where people with physical disability are thriving to survive.这句话中community是一个虚拟的词，但为什么可以用where？因为如果用that的话，连着两个that比较拗口。所以绝对不能打破的语法规则是很少的，也不是SC的考察重点。本题中selected的问题很可能是出题人没注意到。我们也不用强行解释selected为什么对，它就是错了，也不影响选出正确答案，因为SC并不是在考grammar，而是在考句意。

1998JIN

HoganTong 发表于 2019-3-13 17:18
以后问SC题的麻烦把下划线加上吧，看着好累。。。

lz说的没错，从语义来说more carefully selected确实更 ...

感谢！！！