请那位高手赐教。

GWBUSH

According to the National Pasta Association, per-capita consumption of pasta in the United States, which has already been approaching 19 pounds a year, will reach 30 pounds a year by the twenty-first century
A.
E.According to the National Pasta Association, per-capita consumption of pasta in the United States is already approaching 19 pounds a year and will reach 30 pounds a year by the twenty-first century.

这是LZM语法上的一题(page 305), 答案是E。LZM解释说A错的原因是which从句语法上的先行词为 United States，所以错。但我认为which是修饰 per-capita consumption of pasta，这种跳跃修饰不仅存在，而且很多。 例如：

Originally developed for detecting air pollutants, a technique called proton-induced x-ray emission, which can quickly analyze the chemical elements in almost any substance without destroying it, is finding uses in medicine, archaeology, and criminology.
这里的which修饰 a technique, 而不是 emission

From the bark of the paper birch tree the Menomini crafted a canoe about twenty feet long and two feet wide, with small ribs and rails of cedar, which could carry four persons or eight hundred pounds of baggage yet was so light that a person could easily portage it around impeding rapids

这里的which修饰 a canoe, 而不是 cedar 或 twenty feet long and two feet wide

请那位高手赐教。

hiddragon

小布，感情你也是来回走动啊。
我觉得你说的对。原题中A并非错在which指代，而是错在approach的语态上。A中 "has been approaching"有问题。has been doing叫现在完成进行时,表示过去一直在做某事。但我们不能说一直approach。而"is approaching"语态使用正确。

braveMBA

我认为这是个极难的问题，以前已经有若干NN讨论过，但是没有结果。我的方法是，降低WHICH从句作为判断对错的优先极，先看其他方面的错误，然后WHICH修饰对象尽量靠近。一般可以通过其他的内容排除错误选项。例如：
According to the National Pasta Association, per-capita consumption of pasta in the United States, which has already been approaching 19 pounds a year, will reach 30 pounds a year by the twenty-first century
has already been approaching 的时态就不合理，说明一直在approaching，就是没有到，一直在逼近。
希望有帮助，而且希望讨论这个话题。

归零

按照OG前言，简洁的原则，我认为，E比A在行文上要简洁，明了。A在加了WHICH从句后，使整个句子结构变复杂。

至于WHICH， 我认为是修饰整体——per-capita consumption of pasta in the United States，在GMAT语法中，属于超过了WHICH指代的范围。

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joywzy

这题主要是词态不对.

which也不要考虑.which究竟修饰什么?

一般是中心词,如果是在复杂词组中.如果没有复杂的词组中,无需判断中心词的,which修饰如果错了,就是错了.

GWBUSH

Thank you, everybody!

GWBUSH

以下是引用hiddragon在2003-9-4 0:20:00的发言：
小布，感情你也是来回走动啊。
我觉得你说的对。原题中A并非错在which指代，而是错在approach的语态上。A中 "has been approaching"有问题。has been doing叫现在完成进行时,表示过去一直在做某事。但我们不能说一直approach。而"is approaching"语态使用正确。

Hiddragon, thank you for recognizing me.

I think a lot of us travel between CD and EA, two good sites dedicated to help all of us, they should not compete with, but help each other, because the goals of both are the same.

[此贴子已经被作者于2003-9-5 5:18:29编辑过]

zhouhaichen

以下是引用Caruso在2003-9-4 10:25:00的发言：
这么理解吧: 是人类都不会理解成which修饰US, ETS也不会钻牛角尖..... 所以解题思路应该是寻找 句子中的"硬伤", 就是降低一些不很肯定的判断的优先级, 排除后, 最后才寻找哪一个表达更好...

如果which前面没有逗号,则为修饰US,本题情况下,which有指代不清的嫌疑.