两道XDF语法题（手敲的也），加上885最后真题4

freegirl

885真题一道

4.According to a survey of graduating medical students conducted by the Association of American Medical Colleges, minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice in socioeconomically deprived areas.
(A) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice
(B) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than other graduates who plan on practicing
(C) minority graduates are nearly four times as likely as other graduates to plan on practicing
(D) it is nearly four times more likely that minority graduates rather than other graduates will plan to practice
(E) it is nearly four times as likely for minority graduates than other graduates to plan to practice

answer is A, how about C?
做这种几倍几倍的题目，总选不好，请支高招！

XDF-384：
Studies show that young people with higher-than-average blood pressure and their families have a history of high blood pressure are more likely than others to develop a server form of the condition.
(A) and their families have a history of high blood pressure
(B) whose families have a history of high blood pressure
(C) and a history of high blood pressure runs in the family
(D) whose families have a history of high blood pressure running in them
(E) with a history of high blood pressure running in their family

Answer is B, how about E? B中的whose不是很confused吗？既可以是修饰前面的紧跟的 blood pressure 也可以是young people。 答案E就是缺了一个 and , 如果有and with....算不算对呢？

XDF-108

With its plan to develop seven and a half acres of shore land, Cleverland is but one of a large number of communities on the Gread Lakes that is looking to its waterfront as a way to improve the quality of urban life and attract new business.

(A) is looking to its waterfront as a way to improve the quality of urban life and attract
(B) is looking at its waterfront to improve the quality of urban life and attract
(C) are looking to their waterfronts to improve the quality of urban life and attract
(D) are looking to its waterfront as a way of improving the qulity of urban life and attracting
(E) are looking at their waterfront as a way they can improve the quality of urban life and attract

Answer is: C, how about E? C 中不定式"to improve the quality..." 会不会让人产生歧义，是waterfronts发出的动作呢？

谢谢了，一眨眼又快到国庆了，我的功夫总不见长，郁闷啊！！！

sbbi

108
look to=指望
E:redundant. And there should be a "through which" after "way".而且"looking at .."并不是"a way"去改善..

384 is 885's Sec16-9. 你不用自己敲,在885上search一下,粘贴过来就好啦!
XDF的题885上全的

freegirl

sbbigg,

谢谢! 108 E 偶明白了，但 c 的 confusion 请指教。
还有384 和 真题，也请看看啦...

谢了呀！

sbbi

108 C should be viewed as "look to sth to do sth" as a whole.

384 E. if there is no 2nd with, E may be better. But, "running" smells very suspicious to me. Sorry I do according a lot to my intuitives. and B is more concise. "Whose"指人应不会有二意. If it is to qualify "pressure", it should be "the family of which". 2 cents

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sbbi

BraveMBA and gemj帮忙看看吧...
真题4,我选C!
1)be likely to do. not "be likely in doing"
2)it is valid to say "plan on doing/sth"
3)it is valid to say "A is 3 times as strong as B"

sbbi

BraveMBA and gemj帮忙看看吧...

freegirl

sbbigg, 谢谢你！ 有时自己搞不明白的东东，人家一点就破了。 ChaseDream is a wonderful place.

是啊，斑竹们发发言呀！ 其实我多想发言呢，就是水平有限，怕误导。心有余而力不足啊！

braveMBA

不好意思，没有看到。

4.According to a survey of graduating medical students conducted by the Association of American Medical Colleges, minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice in socioeconomically deprived areas.
(A) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice
(B) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than other graduates who plan on practicing
(C) minority graduates are nearly four times as likely as other graduates to plan on practicing
(D) it is nearly four times more likely that minority graduates rather than other graduates will plan to practice
(E) it is nearly four times as likely for minority graduates than other graduates to plan to practice

这题好象以前激烈争论过，记得MZYZHU有一贴挺不错。我还是坚持我的观点，不是因为答案是A。
1、four times更倾向于跟more than，而不是as，但不是不能跟。
2、关于比较从句是否补出动词的问题，我觉得只有PREFER，没有固定的标准。ETS倾向于在以全句子内容比较的时候补出动词，因为清晰。这题在比什么？比plan的能力，谁和谁比？minority graduates 和 other graduates 。怎么比？全句。
例如OG156。
156. Dirt roads may evoke the bucolic simplicity of another century, but financially strained townships point out that dirt roads cost twice as much as maintaining paved roads.
A.dirt roads cost twice as much as maintaining paved roads
B.dirt roads cost twice as much to maintain as paved roads do
C.maintaining dirt roads costs twice as much as paved roads do
D.maintaining dirt roads costs twice as much as it does for paved roads
E.to maintain dirt roads costs twice as much as for paved roads

继续讨论。

freegirl

斑竹gg,

谢谢你的解释！156 我能明白是B ， B 是主语与主语比较。
因为其他的答案都形式上不对称。还有奥妙吗？

gemj

885真题4
首先,我完全同意 mzyzhu在帖子[讨论]感觉真题4的答案A中的第二个are多余（http://forum.chasedream.com/dispbbs.asp?boardID=23&ID=15189）中的观点，双手赞同！

以下是引用mzyzhu在2003-9-16 2:15:00的发言：
感谢小按提供最新真提和答案。但是感觉语法低4 题正确答案值得商榷。先看一下4题
4.According to a survey of graduating medical students conducted by the Association of American Medical Colleges, minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice in socioeconomically deprived areas.
(A) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice
(B) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than other graduates who plan on practicing
(C) minority graduates are nearly four times as likely as other graduates to plan on practicing
(D) it is nearly four times more likely that minority graduates rather than other graduates will plan to practice
(E) it is nearly four times as likely for minority graduates than other graduates to plan to practice

答案选择位A. 因此简化就是：
graduates A are 4 times more likely than graduates B are in doing something.

感觉are在那别扭，不解？ 前面也有人就此发问。
http://forum.chasedream.com/dispbbs.asp?boardID=23&ID=14527

但是解释不太令人信服。现在说一下个人意见，感觉答案A中的第二个are 多余。从885中没有找到一提将第二个be动词补出的情况，但却找到2提在逻辑上类似，但都没有在第二个人称名次前/后补出be动词。请看：

Section 4/11. Several studies have found that the coronary patients who exercise most actively are at least fifty percent less likely than those who are sedentary to die of a heart attack.

简化：patients A are 50% less likely than patients B to die of a heart attack

补充250/60. Studies show that young people with higher-than-average blood pressure whose families have a history of high blood pressure are more likely than others to develop a severe form of the condition.

简化：people A are more likely than peole B to develop a condition

从语感的的角度，A is xxx time more/less likely than B to do something比较顺畅。由于more likely than和 as likely as 在表达上都可以接受，（当然表示的倍数前者比后者多一倍）。感觉C应该比较好。
希望听一听其他高手的意见。

其次，我同意sbbi的三点论断，并且提供进一步的论据和具体的例子。

以下是引用sbbi在2003-9-19 9:10:00的发言：
BraveMBA and gemj帮忙看看吧...
真题4,我选C!
1)be likely to do. not "be likely in doing"
2)it is valid to say "plan on doing/sth"
3)it is valid to say "A is 3 times as strong as B"

1)be likely to do. not "be likely in doing"
这自然不用论证啦！
2)it is valid to say "plan on doing/sth"
请看“英汉大词典（陆谷孙）”的解释：
PLAN ON： <口>有…的计划; 打算, 想要
I think we can plan on remaining here until Wednesday. 我想我们可以安排在这里呆到星期三.
I was wondering who you were planning on rooming with next year. 我不知道你打算明年和谁同住一室.
I plan on six kids. 我想有6个孩子.
3)it is valid to say "A is 3 times as strong as B"
二个例子：
Also, it was pointed out, milk-drinking English women get some kinds of cancer eighteen times as frequently as Japanese women who seldom drink milk. （这个句子与C选项高度类似。Japanese women后面也无任何助（系）动词。我想仅仅这个例子就能说明C中的“minority graduates are nearly four times as likely as other graduates”是没有问题的。（出自LSAT阅读））
In recent days, while the price of MEGA Corporation stock has been falling, the corporation’s officers and directors have bought up to nine times as much of it as they have sold. （出自LSAT逻辑）
总之，我认为A中出现的more likely… in planning 是无法解释的，仅这一条可以判它死刑。
其次，are other graduates中的are 是多余的，而且是严重多余。
相反，C是完美的（在我的眼里），没有任何不妥；至少挑不出任何错误（在任何人的眼里）。所以正确答案应该是C。

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