OG 61 的疑问

waterflea

The Gorton-Dodd bill requires that a bank disclose to their customers how long they will delay access to funds from deposited checks.
(A) that a bank disclose to their customers how long they will delay access to funds from deposited checks
(B) a bank to disclose to their customers how long they will delay access to funds from a deposited check
(C) that a bank disclose to its customers how long it will delay access to funds from deposited checks
(D) a bank that it should disclose to its customers how long it will delay access to funds from a depos-ited check
(E) that banks disclose to customers how long access to funds from their deposited check is to be delayed

答案是C。但是我认为答案C应该也有毛病，就是这里的it有指代不清之嫌，它可以指代a bank,也可以指代The Gorton-Dodd bill。难道老美认为只有银行才能对客户做出规定？但实际上非常可能银行向客户宣布的规定很多都是由政府法规要求制定并要求银行向客户公告的，所以说the Gorton-Dodd bill will delay access to ...也说得通啊，不就有歧义了嘛？而E用的被动态就能没有这个问题，但是OG却又认为这里用被动态会使施动者指示不清。请哪位高手指点一下？

ricesu

指代不清是effective错误，做题目的时候首先要找的是correct错误
c中require后面是一个宾语从句，代词在一个从句中往往指代这个从句的主语，所以不存在指代不清的问题。
e有个很明显的错误，最后用的是check，难道那么多的银行只用一个check吗？
另外，原文包含的信息是银行delay，e中使动作的发出者消失，使原文信息遗漏，这是不可原谅的错误

waterflea

谢谢。我知道E是错的，因为check没有加复数。不过就是觉得C看得也不太顺。
另外，请教一下，所谓的原文信息指的是什么啊？原文里不划线部分也没显示到底是bank还是bill在delay啊，难道是指ETS的习惯出题思路吗？

ricesu

一般是根据a选项中判断的原文的意思。a选项中讲到that a bank disclose to their customers how long they will delay access to funds from deposited checks.这里的they虽然指代错误，但还是应该指银行，所以这里包含的信息就是bank delay access。任何对原文信息的添加或者删除，都是不适宜的。e选项中access to be delayed，但是没有说明delay这个动作的发出者，所以遗漏了原来的信息，不好

madtears

that    a    bank    disclose    to    its    customers    how    long    it    will    delay

Tiangel

还是不懂，唉～

A goal 指的是owning and living in a freestanding house on its own land，而that又指的是 a goal,那么A为什么不对？望NN指教。

Tiangel

对不起，把对60的提问写到这里了，上面的问题取消：p

应该是

E中的their 是不是除了指customers也有可能指banks，那么就歧义了是不是？

也就是说E有三处错误：1only一个check

          2 被动的施动者不明

          3 再加一条是我自己理解的，即歧义，对么？

Tiangel

顶一下

Tiangel

再顶：）

leeon

Choice C is best. In A and B, the plural pronouns their and they do not agree with the singular noun bank. B, like D and E, illogically shifts from the plural customers and funds to the singular check, as if the customers were jointly deposit­ing only one check. In D, requires a bank that it should is ungrammatical; requires that a bank is the appropriate idiom. In E, the use of the passive construction is to be delayed is less informative than the active voice because the passive does not explicitly identify the bank as the agent responsible for the delay.