885 section B,No.15

nickynicky

15.    The increased popularity and availability of televisions has led to the decline of regional dialects, language variations which originate from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuated by geographic isolation.
(A) which originate from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuated
(B) that originated from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuated
(C) originated from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuated
(D) originating from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuated
(E) originating from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuating

D
why?

Mchao_l

这题对于我来说，是肯定做不对，但我能解释为什么选D，请大家帮我分析分析，在现场应如何做对。

解释：language variations originating from 是指‘语言的变音形成自’。如果考虑和后面的perpetuated 并列，那应该用language variations originating by sth...and perpetuated by sth.
ETS有很多次都是这么出题的，其用意是让我们通过分析句子的逻辑意思，来判断并列的分词的形式。

我的问题是，在现场，这么烦的句子，怎么可能把句意翻过来倒过去的，以理解出句子真正的含义呢？

nickynicky

我觉得你理解的不对
我现在是这么理解的：
originating from ...
perpetuated by...
这两个词组是并列的，
前面一个是主动，所以用ing,
后面一个是被动，是有isolated geography造成的，所以用ed.
否则说不同吧？
呵呵。

felix2816

nickycicky:
your claim is absolutely right. when you got the exact meaning, you will choose the right answer.

Mchao_l

原来是我的思路不对, 愿不得总是做错.
谢谢楼主, 我又学一招.

lyle

sorry, made a mistake

[此贴子已经被作者于2003-12-12 18:59:07编辑过]

Sophiallw

D两个分词结构平行, best。

这是一个典型的and连接的并列的修饰语，一个动词为主动，所以用originating,另一个为被动perpetrated.

originate from 本身就是主动形式，比如A orginiates from B

上面是注释里的解释,我的问题是,C选项originated from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuated中的originated from 与 perpetuated by不也是动词的平行吗?此处是因为originate是一个不及物动词所以不能用被动形式还是别的原因呢?

Sophiallw

http://forum.chasedream.com/dispbbs.asp?boardID=23&ID=14888

自己找到解释了

2楼15. variations |originating from|...|perpetuated by|，是现在分词和过去分词并列做定语，OG里有一道类似的题。主要是要屡清分词和被修饰对象的关系。originate似乎无法用过去分词来传递概念。Any way, A good question! 所以不能光考虑平行的形式，要注意陷阱。
OG的例子
210. Scientists have recently discovered what could be the largest and oldest living organism on Earth, a giant fungus that is an interwoven filigree of mushrooms and rootlike tentacles spawned by a single fertilized spore some 10,000 years ago and extending for more than 30 acres in the soil of a Michigan forest.
A.extending
B.extends
C.extended
D.it extended
E.is extending
Choice A, the best answer, preserves grammatical parallelism while allowing for logical expression of temporal relationships; A employs the parallel participial phrases spawned... and extending ... to modify filigree.

5楼originated from …表示被……起源，好诡异，根本说不通滴

看样子,做题过程中确实小心为上,我之前做的时候是直接选了C,因为从时态平行的角度去考虑,还是逻辑意思为上.

当当84

以下是引用nickynicky在2003-10-5 11:03:00的发言：
15. The increased popularity and availability of televisions has led to the decline of regional dialects, language variations which originate from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuated by geographic isolation.
(A) which originate from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuated
(B) that originated from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuated
(C) originated from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuated
(D) originating from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuated
(E) originating from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuating

我还有一个问题，这里originating .....and perpetuated 都是用来修饰language variations 的吧，那么也就是说， regional dialects 和language variations  应该是并列关系了，那么为什么不用and 连接。 或者说language variations...是前面regional dialects 的解释？

sen4sun

ABSOLUTE PHRASE = noun/pronoun + participle + modifiers, objects, or complements