看了小安的新题总结后有一题不太明白 谢谢解答！

felix2816

I don't think that D has some difference with E, since if you "they" have no explicit antedote in answer D, so answer E has the same problem.
but B is absolutely not the right answer.

braveMBA

A question:

Two artists, three writers, and four poets attend the meeting, because they are certainly human beings.

THEY指代什么？ 似乎不能说有歧义吧，我还是那个观点，从逻辑意思看，看句子想表达什么。否则英语没法表达复杂的意思，变得累赘。

Young female dancers and gymnasts 明显是一类人，因为fail to maintain good eating habits
这是他们共同的动作。

E的问题在于那个和BECAUSE接近的HABITS混淆了THEY的指代，因为位置靠近。D避免了这个问题。

givemeahome

D. Because they desire to be as thin as possible, young female ballet dancers and gymnasts sometimes fail to maintain good eating habits
E. Young female dancers and gymnasts sometimes fail to maintain good eating habits because they desire to be as thin as possible

这里的they不可能指代habbits, 从句中的代词指代主句主语是一个比教条的代词就近指代更普遍的规律尤其当这种指代很明显时

D中的yong female 要不要修饰gymnasts??? 如果要， 那么这个ballet 不显得模糊吗

braveMBA

young female [ballet dancers] and [gymnasts]

gymnasts不可能被BALLET修饰。

dandan74

I have found the answer key of the first quetion. It looks like the answer is D.
This is not a real GMAT question and this question is from a practicing materal called "GMAT+". However, a lot of people have found errors in the answer key.
Hopefully this one is correct.

braveMBA

dandan , how about the other subjects? Does GMAT+ include all of them?

joice

are these questions from 885? or XDF?

braveMBA

小安真题。

dandan74

I actually did a search in yahoo and found a GMAT discussion group. Somebody was discussing the same question and arguing between D and E. A guy said he had the answer key, however he said there were known errors in the answer key. So hopefully the answer for this one is correct. It seems that even the native Americans are confused by the answer E.

sbbi

i vote for D! Comrade braveMBA 在娘子军的包围下好艰苦呀.支持!