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以下是引用tianwan在2004-3-6 17:15:00的发言:
I am not NN, only I had done this subject and checked it in some Grammar book include LZM.
这一题也是有很多语法点:
Traveling the back roads of Hungary, in 1905 Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology, and they were armed only with an Edison phonograph and insatiable curiosity.
(A) Traveling the back roads of Hungary, in 1905 Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology, and they were armed only:1、armed和began并列不恰当,在时间上的并列造成了歧义,再说了,1906年他们就改成装备别的东东了吗?难道他们的traveling在1905年就结束了吗?这个我想没必要顶真吧; 2、they和B and Z重复,多余,应该省略,GMAT只要符合语法,绝对是能省略就省略,简洁清楚第一。
(B) In 1905, Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály, traveling the back roads of Hungary, began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology, and they were only armed:1、they多余,应该省略; 2、travaling分词短语位置不好,可能做定语,可能做状语; 3、only的位置不恰当,从修饰介词短语变成修饰谓语。举一个例子:He only drinks one cup of wine.表示他仅仅喝了一杯wine,别的什么都没喝。He drinks only one cup of wine. 表示他喝了仅仅一杯wine, 可能他喝了许多啤酒,肚子已经撑的不行了。如果看不懂这个例子,就记住,像only,first这一类词不要改位置。
(C) In 1905 Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology, traveling the back roads of Hungary armed only
(D) Having traveled the back roads of Hungary, in 1905 Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology; they were only armed:1、began和having traveled的顺序混乱; 2、 同样only的位置变了; 3、armed 用分号隔开,是不用省略they了,那还用分号前的时间状语吗?这个分号用的真是pretentious。
(E) Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály, in 1905 began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology, traveling the back roads of Hungary, arming themselves only: 1、主语谓语为什么用逗号隔开呢?没有插入语这是不可以的; 2、表示何时的介词短语时间状语放在主语和谓语的中间,不是惯用法,简而言之,介词短语时间状语和大部分时间状语副词,不管表示何时,频率或持续时间,不要放在句中,看起来很拽,某些异类,如once, then, immediately有些时候可以放在句中;另外,表示不确定频度的时间副词,还有一些表示程度的,如often, usually, rarely,never,also,always,already,ever, certainly等一般是放在句中的,即助动词、情态动词后,其它的动词前。 3、arming是个分词,要有动作的,持续性的动作放在这里是不是很滑稽,这俩人有毛病,不停地在装备唱片和好奇心,所以使用形容词armed就克服了这个歧义。
有LZM的请查阅E7-37.
请指正。
以下是引用tianwan在2004-3-7 23:13:00的发言:C. In 1905 Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology, traveling the back roads of Hungary armed only with an Edison phonograph and insatiable curiosity.
traveling是分词短语作伴随状语,armed是形容词短语作方式状语。状语有修饰谓语动词的,有修饰全句的。
应该有2种理解:
1、都是全句的状语,中间不必用and隔开(只有同类而且近义(quietly and evenly)的状语必须用and隔开, 同类对照(quickly but silently)的状语必须用rather than、but或yet)。 如:Parents may complain that their child eats badly at meals. 我们没有必要在badly和at meals中间加上个and. 又如:He probably went to Japan by air twice in 1962.
2, armed修饰traveling。
第一种理解可能更合理一些,而且我觉得这种问题有些钻牛角尖了,好像对做题没有帮助,我们承认这种现象是可以的,记住就可以了。另外4个选项的错误是明显的。我们做题的时候只能使用排除法,ETS出题是不会让你一眼看出答案的,要不GMAT就不会这么难了。Shinogigi(760的高分)曾教导过我们这一点。
一家之言,请NN指教。 看到关于大全语法section1 --12题的牛人的解释,帖过来大家分享
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