两道来自GMATPrep的语法题

lifanggmat

1, As the former chair of the planning board for 18 consecutive years and a board member for 28 years, Joan Philkill attended mor than 400 meetings and reviewed more than 700 rezoning applications.

A. As the former

B. The former

C. Former

D. She was

E. As the

The key is E. 不懂，为什么不是A呢？former为什么要去掉呢？

2. Unlike most severance packages, which require workers to stay until the last day scheduled to collect, workers at the automobile company are eligible for its severance package even if they find a new job before they are terminated.

A. the last day scheduled to collect, workers at the automobile company are eligible for its severance package

B. the last day they are scheduled to collect, workers are eligible for the automobile company's severance package

C. their last scheduled day to collect, the automobile company offers its severance package to workers

D. their last scheduled day in order to collect, the automobile company's severance package is available to to workers

E. the last day that they are scheduled to collect, the automobile company's severance package is available to to workers

The key is D.

开始选E，后来也觉得E不对，因为the last day后面的that从句扭曲了句意，但也不明白D，in order to collect 接在day后很奇怪，找不出动词的主语

请大牛指点！！谢谢！

carolhide

1. 根据逻辑来看，一般是这样说：作为一个干了18年的主席和28年的委员。而不是作为一个干了18年的前主席。

carolhide

2. Unlike most severance packages, which require workers to stay until their last scheduled day in order to collect, the automobile company's severance package is available to to workers even if they find a new job before they are terminated.

首先，unlike表明一个比较，which是插入语，所以前后比较对象对称。

其次看which内，谓语动词是regqire

gonghao

以下是引用lifanggmat在2006-8-24 17:43:00的发言：

1, As the former chair of the planning board for 18 consecutive years and a board member for 28 years, Joan Philkill attended mor than 400 meetings and reviewed more than 700 rezoning applications.

A. As the former

B. The former

C. Former

D. She was

E. As the

The key is E. 不懂，为什么不是A呢？former为什么要去掉呢？

如果是A：那么就是现在不是这个职务了，那么这个职务是过去时了。那些会，比之其不做老板，是过去的过去了。

2. Unlike most severance packages, which require workers to stay until the last day scheduled to collect, workers at the automobile company are eligible for its severance package even if they find a new job before they are terminated.

A. the last day scheduled to collect, workers at the automobile company are eligible for its severance package

B. the last day they are scheduled to collect, workers are eligible for the automobile company's severance package

C. their last scheduled day to collect, the automobile company offers its severance package to workers

D. their last scheduled day in order to collect, the automobile company's severance package is available to to workers

E. the last day that they are scheduled to collect, the automobile company's severance package is available to to workers

The key is D.

开始选E，后来也觉得E不对，因为the last day后面的that从句扭曲了句意，但也不明白D，in order to collect 接在day后很奇怪，找不出动词的主语

根据平行unlike的内容要对等，只有DE是the automobile company's severance pack，和之前的package对等。E是非常清楚的表达啊，untill后面直接跟的就是day，清楚的不能再清楚了。day用句子进行修饰。这最后一天，是他们预定集合的一天。D对day的修饰非常奇怪，繁琐，in order to 也繁琐，没有E清晰。简练。

霹雳贝贝

我觉得d(in order)不简洁

e (that they are)不简洁

我觉得我最憷这种题，一念之差就可能选错。有什么技巧么

D. their last scheduled day in order to collect, the automobile company's severance package is available to to workers

E. the last day that they are scheduled to collect, the automobile company's severance package is available to to workers

Matrixrl

在e选项里有they, 个人感觉就指代不清了,they可以指workers也可以代更前面的packages,所以选d比较好,虽然d的in order to罗嗦,可是effectiveness的问题不是犯了就一定错的,而在e中的指代混淆是gmat中非常忌讳的一种错误

Winbolin

D. their last scheduled day in order to collect

E. the last day that they are scheduled to collect

這兩句句意是一樣的嗎？E. 的 that "they"...指的是day的話, 那主謂就不一致了...., 如果指的是workers的話, E聽起來也怪怪的

Winbolin

E. 的 ...that "they"...指的是day的話, 那主謂就不一致了...., 如果指的是workers的話, E聽起來也怪怪的. 因為人不應該被scheduled, 用過去式, 而應該是用主動式謂語, 所以我會選D吧.

霹雳贝贝

以下是引用Matrixrl在2006-9-11 20:34:00的发言：

在e选项里有they, 个人感觉就指代不清了,they可以指workers也可以代更前面的packages,所以选d比较好,虽然d的in order to罗嗦,可是effectiveness的问题不是犯了就一定错的,而在e中的指代混淆是gmat中非常忌讳的一种错误

我觉得你解释的they非常有道理，好像前边出现了两个pl.，再出现they很容易是指代不清的错误呢

霹雳贝贝

以下是引用Winbolin在2006-9-11 20:47:00的发言：
E. 的 ...that "they"...指的是day的話, 那主謂就不一致了...., 如果指的是workers的話, E聽起來也怪怪的. 因為人不應該被scheduled, 用過去式, 而應該是用主動式謂語, 所以我會選D吧.

我今天做到了这道题有新的疑问，如果they指代不清的话，d中their 是不是有同样的问题呢

还有第二题是gwd24-28，当时给的答案是e，看来答案要改一下了啊