[求助] 紧急求救55~~GWD31-30

MaccMichAA

以下是引用kingler在2006-1-29 15:32:00的发言：

OG 10th

       110. It has been estimated that the annual cost to the United States of illiteracy in lost industrial output and tax revenues is at least $20 billion a year.

(A)  the annual cost to the United States of illiteracy in lost industrial output and tax revenues is at least $20 billion a year

(B)  the annual cost of illiteracy to the United States is at least $20 billion a year because of lost industrial output and tax revenues

(C)  illiteracy costs the United States at least $20 billion a year in lost industrial output and tax revenues

(D)  $20 billion a year in lost industrial output and tax revenues is the annual cost to the United States of illiteracy

(E)   lost industrial output and tax revenues cost the United States at least $20 billion a year because of illiteracy

In choices A,
                B, and D, the combined use of annual and a year is redundant. Choices A, D, and E are awkward and confused because other constructions intrude within the phrase cost... of illiteracy: for greatest clarity, cost should be followed immediately by a phrase (e.g., of illiteracy ) that identifies the nature of the cost. Choice E is particularly garbled in reversing cause and effect, saying that it is lost output and revenues ratherthan illiteracy that costs the United States over $20 billion a year. Choice B is wordy and awkward, and idiom requires in rather than because of to introduce a phrase identifying the constituents of the $20 billion loss. Concise, logically worded, and idiomatic, choice C is best.

119. Executives and federal officials say that the use of crack and cocaine is growing rapidly among work­ers, significantly compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, which already are a cost to busi­ness of more than $100 billion a year.

(A)  significantly compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, which already are a cost to business of

(B)   significantly compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, which already cost busi­ness

(C)  significantly compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, already with business costs of

(D)  significant in compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, and already costing busi­ness

(E)   significant in compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, and already costs business

Choice B, the best answer, uses clear and concise phrasing to state that it is the effects of drug and alcohol abuse that already cost business the sum mentioned. In A, to business is awkwardly and confusingly inserted between cost and the prepositional phrase that modifies it, and are already a cost to business is wordy and awkward compared to cost business. In C, already with business costs of... is awkward and unclear, failing to specify that those prior effects generate the cost. Choices D and E produce faulty constructions with the phrase significant in compounding, which cannot grammatically modify the verb form is growing.

ETS很搞笑呀。不过比较而言，cost to xxx 毕竟不是错。

这道题目选的时候犹豫了很久

原因是B选项it is estimated that是一个优选结构 而且后面用的will 但是这个选项中关于cost to sb. of meeting这个结构实在是不敢恭维

既然没有cost to do 是一个错误的用法 勉强选B

还有一点是by the end of decade 感觉上要用的是将来时

wuwu717

B the best  Choice A, C, D, and E are awkward and confusing. In A, for example, the issue is not the industry’s cost but the cost to the industry; also, to meet should be of meeting here, projected at is unidiomatic, and by the end of the decade is placed so that its meaning is unclear. C and D suffer from many of the same problems. The wording of E implies that cost… is estimated in order to meet environmental regulations. B alone makes a logical statement and varies verb tense to indicate that the issue is present estimates of future costs. The question is moderately difficult.

 

leoozop

project sth (to sth) predict (results) based on known data; extrapolate （根据现有资料）预测（结果）; 推断: project population growth to the year 2000 预测到2000年人口增长状况.

ciduo777

以下是引用howardwang在2005-10-12 12:12:00的发言：

真怪！

而且，在og10中，有至少两个题说，在the cost to ......of doing中，因为to + noun这个结构而被认为是错误的。

真是没办法了。

这道题是这样说的啊，the cost...of meeting...正确啊，其间插入的to...才是解释为：

the issue is not the industry’s cost but the cost to the industry

清凉凉

我选C。从逻辑意思来判断，要表达的主题是，这个成本可能达到多少多少，因此，它所牵涉到的时间最好单独作为状语，和主句分割开来，像C这样，才清晰.

wangwei8581

主要是不理解这个cost to xx of meeting

longman查了，是cost of doing，但是实在没找出cost to sth，尤其这里to 不是动词不定式，而是表示所属的介词。。。

mimixiaxia

up

angelinelmq

支持B

cost to sb表示的是“谁的成本”

eileenmu木

up

yzhao26

ding