急问两题(GMATPrep上的), 版主们，NN们，大家都进来看看

lb1900

以下是引用falileo在2005-12-9 21:31:00的发言：

1.
There is a widespread belief in the US and Western Europe that young people
have a smaller commitment to work and a career than their parents and
grandparents and that the source of the change lies in the collapse of the
'work ethic'.

a.
a smaller commitment to work and a career than their parents and
grandparents

b.
less of a commitment to work and a career than their parents and grandparents

c.
a smaller commitment to work and a career than their parents and grandparents

d.
less of a commitment to work and a career than their parents and grandparents
had

e.
a lessening of the commitment to work and a career than their parents and
grandparents had

答案是D， 我选A。差别在于had, 我觉得不对啊，要用也用did吧，had补全不成了"had had less of ..."    可以参考大全428 ”they still expect to live better than their parents did“

2.
The success of the program to eradicate smallpox has stimulated experts to
pursue what they had not previously considered possible -- better control, if not eradication, of the other infections such as measles and yaws.

a.
what they had not previously considered possible -- better control, if not eradication, of the other infections such as

b.
what they had not previously considered a possibility -- better control, if not
eradication, of such infections like

c.
something they had not previously considered possible -- better control, if not
eradication, of such infections as

d.
something not considered a previous possibility -- better control and perhaps
eradication, of other infections such as

e.
the possibility of what they had not previously considered possible -- better
control and possibly  eradication
of  infections like

答案是C，我选A。

我觉得C错，理由是something 后没that, infections 前没other,因为前面提到smallpox.

请NN们指教，谢谢！

Q2, 只有比较时才需要用OTHER排除，A错在THE OTHER,　不能有. the.  one... the other.

Q1 主要是less和smaller比较. less好。比较结构中时态不一致,助动词必须要补出来，如果时态一致就可省略.　D,E补了，但E错。"had had less of ..."    逻辑上可以是过去完成时。至少比不补强, 不补表明一般现在时。而本题比较的就是现在和过去。这样的解释可能有些牵强。

sendme

以下是引用gonghao在2006-5-22 10:35:00的发言：

第二题的somthing后的补语成分的that可以省略的

另外such as，排除B，根据时态排除D，根据用法排除E（太冗长，possibility of直接加名词，且还改变了原句的意思）

A的错误是，the other是单数概念，后面不该用复数

关于such as

有1.such+名词/名词短语+as

2.such as 1，2，and3（表举例）

这两种用法都是可以的，

至于others用于such+名词/名词短语+as短语之间，感觉可以加上，但是不加更符合习惯

gonghao。。。

好准确地回答。。。now i understand "the other" 

one more question, if i use "others" instead of "the other"  in the A of the Q2,  is it correct ? even it's not best..

hwhhs

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霹雳贝贝

以下是引用gonghao在2006-5-25 20:50:00的发言：

第一题：

未划线部分：young people have

则后面得their parents and grandparents必须补出谓语动词

只有DE补出了

E：a lessening of。。。。。。不正确

只能选D了

 那请问a smaller commitment 和less of a commitment的表达都是正确的么？less不是该修饰不可数名词么？

bibaoshi

bibaoshi

applec

The success of the program to eradicate smallpox has stimulated experts to
pursue what they had not previously considered possible -- better control, if not eradication, of the other infections such as measles and yaws.

a.
what they had not previously considered possible -- better control, if not eradication, of the other infections such as

c.
something they had not previously considered possible -- better control, if not
eradication, of such infections as

it doesn't matter whether "other" changes to "others" in the question above.  there's no gramatical error here. one who want to argue can look at the dictionary: the usage of "other people" exists. I have never seen "others people" in the

GMAT has a very strict usage of "other" since other does not logically exclude itself from the choice.

one must use "out of the other" instead of "other" to exclude the possibilty of including itself from the list.

since the smallpox has already eradicated, it cannot be logically include in any other infections which are still not eradicated.