OG21-888 Even with the proposed budget cuts and new taxes and fees, the city's p

sophiabeatG

Even with theproposed budget cuts and new taxes and fees, the city's projected deficit forthe next budget year is getting worse: administration officials announced thatthey believe the gap will be $3.7 billion, a billion dollars over what itwas predicted just two months ago.

A. over what it was predicted

B. over the prediction from

C. more thanit was predicted  

D. more than they hadpredicted    

E. more than they predicted it

正答D

求助NN，这道题我错选了C，答案说C里面it指代不明，但我感觉这个it不就是指代the gap吗？这句话中也没有别的单数名词可以指代了呀？

OG对C的解释里还说“the gap will be more than it was predicted” 应该改成“the gap will be more than it was predicted to be”或者“gap will be more than as predicted”就是对的。请问为啥改成这样就是对的了？

附上OG 原文关于C中it的解释：

“does it refer to the gap or is it the impersonal it that could be correctly used in a passive-voice phrase such as it was predicted that...? In either case, the underlined phrase is incoherent. ”

"The phrasing than it was predicted is unclear, in part because, as explained above, the import of the pronoun it is unclear. If we take it as referring back to the gap, we still have an inadequate expression of the second element of the comparison. either ' the gap will be more than it was predicted to be' or 'gap will be more than as predicted' would make sense."

谢谢！

小小豆豆酱

D选项的they 指代的是administration officials , 从句意上来看，只有人可以预测...
gap自己是不可以预测的

sophiabeatG

小小豆豆酱 发表于 2020-7-23 10:55
D选项的they 指代的是administration officials , 从句意上来看，只有人可以预测...
gap自己是不可以预测的 ...

嗯嗯，D的they指代我明白，但是gap不可以是“被预测”吗，就像C里面的 it was predicted 这样说？我主要不是很明白og解析为啥说C的it was predicted 错误，但是变成it was predicted to be就是对的了这是一种习惯的说法吗？还是说有什么语法结构我没有对应上
谢谢回复

sophiabeatG

朋友们，我又看了一遍OG的解释，感觉明白他啥意思了
就是说C中的it was predicted...是有歧义的说法，因为it 可以是非人称代词（也就是说it这里面啥都不指，e.g. It is rainning里面的it），it还可以是指the gap。所以是有歧义的。
如果像OG说的那样改成“the gap will be more than it was predicted to be'或者 'gap will be more than as predicted”就能排除it作为非人称代词的可能性，因此变的没有歧义啦！

小小豆豆酱

sophiabeatG 发表于 2020-7-23 22:34
朋友们，我又看了一遍OG的解释，感觉明白他啥意思了
就是说C中的it was predicted...是有歧义的说法，因为i ...

感谢，盲点！！！

小小豆豆酱

It was only after Katharine Graham became publisher of The Washington Post in 1963 that
it moved into the first rank of American newspapers, and it was under her command that
the paper won high praise for its unrelenting reporting of the Watergate scandal.
(A) It was only after Katharine Graham became publisher of The Washington Post in 1963
that it moved into the first rank of American newspapers, and it was under her
command that the paper won high praise
(B) It was only after Katharine Graham's becoming publisher of The Washington Post in
1963 that it moved into the first rank of American newspapers, and under her
command it had won high praise
(C) Katharine Graham became publisher of The Washington Post in 1963, and only after
that did it move into the first rank of American newspapers, having won high praise under her command
(D) Moving into the first rank of American newspapers only after Katharine Graham
became its publisher in 1963, The Washington Post, winning high praise under her
command
(E) Moving into the first rank of American newspapers only after Katharine Graham's
becoming its publisher in 1963, The Washington Post won high praise under her
command
想和楼主讨论一下这一题，OA：A中也是it出现了两个用法，一个是做没有意义的形式词语，另一个确实指代newspaper

sophiabeatG

小小豆豆酱 发表于 2020-7-24 15:12
It was only after Katharine Graham became publisher of The Washington Post in 1963 that
it moved int ...

是的，我同意

Alaska17

可以参考GMAT ninja的说法。此人之于gmatclub宛如ron之于manhattan。
https://gmatclub.com/forum/even-with-the-proposed-budget-cuts-and-new-taxes-and-fees-the-city-s-321754.html
总结一下就是。我们想说的是3.7 is 1 more than 2.7
然后2.7≠it was predicted, 即无法说the gap is predicted $2.7
但2.7=it was predicted to be,可以说the gap is predicated to be $2.7
因此c不行。可以翻到manhattan sc分册的第114页。

或者就直接记住gap will be more than it was predicated是不好的讲法就行了。。。

ST5

Alaska17 发表于 2020-8-30 14:14
可以参考GMAT ninja的说法。此人之于gmatclub宛如ron之于manhattan。
https://gmatclub.com/forum/even-wit ...

同意！               

Boyii

我想请问一下D中they为什么指代的是administration officials而不是a billion dollars呀？