885 补充题126

sbbi

126. Cooperative apartment houses have the peculiar distinction of being dwellings that must also operate as businesses.
(A) of being dwellings that must also operate as businesses
(B) of dwellings that must also operate like business
(C) that they are dwellings that must operate like business
(D) that, as dwellings, they must also operate like businesses
(E) to be a dwelling that must also operate as a business

Answer is A. Why? Why not D or some else?

gemj

D中THAT从句修饰DISTINCTION在逻辑上不通，而且OPERATE　LIKE也显然不对，应该是OPERATE　AS，意思是作为商业来运作，而非“象商业那样来运作。”
至于A，其中出现的一个N1＋of being＋N2的结构，这个结构的确不常见，常见的结构是N1＋of being＋过去分词/adj。但这个结构是有的，见下面的两个例子（全部阅读加全部逻辑也就是这两个！）
5.    The ends of modern centuries have been greeted with both apocalyptic anxieties and utopian fantasies. It is not surprising that both reactions have consistently proven to be misplaced. After all, the precise time when a century happens to end cannot have any special significance, since the Gregorian calendar, though widely used, is only one among many that people have devised.
Which one of the following, if true, could be substituted for the reason cited above while still preserving the force of the argument?
(A) It is logically impossible for both reactions to be correct at the same time.
(B) What is a utopian fantasy to one group of people may well be, for another group of people, a realization of their worst fears.
(C) The number system based on the number ten, in the absence of which one hundred years would not have the appearance of being a significant period of time, is by no means the only one that people have created.
(D) The firm expectation that something extraordinary is about to happen can make people behave in a manner that makes it less likely that something extraordinary will happen.
(E) Since a century far exceeds the normal human life span, people do not live long enough to learn from mistakes that they themselves made one hundred years before.
25.    Economist: No economic system that is centrally planned can efficiently allocate resources, and efficient allocation of resources is a necessary condition for achieving a national debt of less than 5 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). It follows that any nation with a centrally planned economy has a national debt that is at least 5 percent of GDP.
The pattern of reasoning exhibited by the economist’s argument is most similar to that exhibited by which one of the following?
(A) Not all mammals are without wings, because bats are mammals and bats have wings.
(B) All of the rural districts are free of major air pollution problems because such problems occur only where there is a large concentration of automobiles, and there are no such places in the rural districts.
(C) All of the ungulates are herbivores, and most herbivores would not attack a human being. It follows that any animal that would attack a human being is unlikely to be ungulate.
(D) All rock stars who are famous have their own record companies, and all rock stars with their own record companies receive company profits over and above their regular royalties. This implies that receiving large regular royalties is a necessary condition of being a famous rock star.
(E) Every mutual fund manager knows someone who trades on inside information, and no one who trades on inside information is unknown to every mutual fund manager. One must conclude that no mutual fund manager is unknown to every one who trades on inside information.

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sbbi

为什么从逻辑上A通D不通?

以下是引用gemj在2003-9-18 2:21:00的发言：
D中THAT从句修饰DISTINCTION在逻辑上不通

[此贴子已经被作者于2003-9-18 2:24:36编辑过]

braveMBA

我觉得这题的结构是不是应该是：
Cooperative apartment houses [that must also operate as businesses] have the peculiar distinction of being dwellings .
否则理解不通。D中的that从句变得比较模糊，不知道在修饰什么。另外从句子意思上看，as dwellings变成了插入语，似乎改变了句子的意思。

另外，我觉得象distinction,importance, significance + [of]的结构来看，如果改变成如importance that .....在句子意思方面就变得不清晰，究竟是“重要性”是什么。

补充材料140题，就是那道importance of communication as a two-way process will be emphasized.

当然这是题外话，看到了distinction of想起了，欢迎大家讨论。

gemj

以下是引用sbbi在2003-9-18 3:48:00的发言：
为什么从逻辑上A通D不通?

D如果修饰distinction，则THEY多余，而且distinction must also operate as (like) businesses逻辑不通。如果修饰houses，不仅THEY多余，而且这句话不完整，变成了：Cooperative apartment houses that… have the peculiar distinction. 到底具有怎样的特性呢？
所以怎么都逻辑不通啊。
By the way, 关于THAT从句，GRE中的一个句子堪称经典，也是GRE中最难的句子，供欣赏：
When the object is optimal resource allocation, that combination of legal methods should be used that most nearly yields the allocation that would exist if there were no external costs resulting from allocating resources through market activity.

sbbi

晕.
gemj真是旁证博引,简直就是GMAT界的考古学家!

braveMBA

就是，怀疑GEMJ兄是博士吧。DOCTOR！

sbbi

一定是Doctor of GMAT

fyhllj

佩服，支持gemj, bravemba 作语法区斑竹。

nettalker

个人意见，此处that从句显然是同位语从句修饰distinction, 而非定语从句（存在逻辑语病），所以应该不存在逻辑问题。
我认为，a用of 更好，另外d的they可能存在一定的歧义，最后用同位语从句感觉上不如用of好。大家的意见呢？我觉得这题可算SC中最难题之一了。

by the way, lzm上面此题a,b,c,d都是businesses(复数）,若b中为businesses, which one is better, a or b?