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knock00

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According to some analyst ,whatever its merits ,the proposal to tax away all capital gains on short-term investments would, if enacted , have a disastrous effect on Wall Street trading and employment.

(D) the proposal’s merits are , taxing

Ans

But I can’t figure out . my ans is A.

Who would give a stupid girl a big hand ?

mzyzhu

如果我的判断和记忆没有错的话。这题的正确答案印该就是A. 恭喜你。

为什么就是A呢？因为如果看句子里的未划线部分有提示，if enacted, 只有proposal可以enacted,其他的不能。

我虽然不是版主，但还是出于善意做一个提醒：（1）在你的标题行列出题目的来源，比如说885/section d/Q12等等。（2）尽量把题目何不清楚的答案打全。这并不难做大。感谢CD给我们提供的语法最全资料885题。就在语法专区的前面几个贴子里可以下载。你只要粘贴和拷贝就可以了。这样方便别人，也就会有根多的人会帮助你。

gemj

正确答案是A。此外，同意mzyzhu的建议。

seanql

48.According to some analysts, whatever its merits, the proposal to tax away all capital gains on short-term investments would, if enacted, have a disastrous effect on Wall Street trading and employment.
(A) its merits, the proposal to tax
(B) its merits may be, the proposal of taxing
(C) its merits as a proposal, taxing
(D) the proposal’s merits, to tax
(E) the proposal’s merits are, taxing

还想请教：
B选项的its merits may be我觉得是没错的，那么是错在proposal是跟不定式还是动名词的固定用法上吗？
还有就是as如果不是跟的句子必错吗？

smartj

proposal to do sth...

bluestone1

我以为 whatever its merits may be 常用，没错，只是ETS不喜欢， 因为 whatever its merits
已表达相同的意思，且更简洁

the proposal to do sth        
the proposal of somebody   

as 可以做介词 只跟名词

Chamao

以下是引用bluestone1在2003-12-4 11:47:00的发言：
我以为    whatever    its    merits    may    be    常用，没错，只是ETS不喜欢，    因为    whatever    its    merits
已表达相同的意思，且更简洁

the    proposal    to    do    sth                                
the    proposal    of    somebody                
    
as    可以做介词    只跟名词

The proposal of sb? Why can't it be the rpoposal of sth? If I wanna say the proposal belos to sb. , I would say XX's proposal, my proposal...This should be more concise than using a prep+O after the n.

tony6

1.        According to some analysts, whatever its merits, the proposal to tax away all capital gains on short-term investments would, if enacted, have a disastrous effect on Wall Street trading and employment.

(A) its merits, the proposal to tax

(B) its merits may be, the proposal of taxing

(C) its merits as a proposal, taxing

(D) the proposal’s merits, to tax（A）

(E) the proposal’s merits are, taxing

为什么C不行？

用PROPOSAL指代TAXING这个ACT。

同时TAXING作为一个ACT不能被ENACTED吗？

[此贴子已经被作者于2004-7-12 11:02:56编辑过]

tony6

麻烦斑竹给看一下。

springappleleaf

It is my understanding that we say "enact proposal", but we do not say "enact taxing" - Taxing to me, is a Dong Ming Ci, but we have a noun for it - taxation.

In addtion, "whatever its merits as proposal" does not sound idomatic.

Therefore, C is not correct.

But I have a question:  can we say "whatever its merits"? Should a sentence, not a noun, follow "whatever"?  Somebody please help.