885 section B-2.8.10

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2. Modern critics are amused by early scholars’ categorizing Tacitus’s Germania as an ethnographic treatise.(A)
(A) scholars’ categorizing Tacitus’s Germania as
(B) scholars’ categorizing Tacitus’s Germania as if
(C) scholars, categorizing of Tacitus’s Germania as
(D) scholars who categorize Tacitus’s Germania as
(E) scholars who categorize Tacitus’s Germania if
这道题还是不太理解。

通过比较A是比较优，但是这里面的as an ethnographic treatise是什么成份啊？

是categorize ...as的用法么？可是没有查到categorize有这种用法啊。

nn来指点一下~~

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以下是引用mahl在2006-3-13 7:11:00的发言：

第10题describe的主语是the work of sb. on the geometry of what are called aperiodic tiles只是用来说明这部著作是关于什么的。aperiodic tiles是复数，所以应用what are called,除了这一点，B虽然保持了主谓一致，但由于这部著作描述的是出版时的理论，所以用过去时比现在时好。

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行缘

10. The work of mathematician Roger Penrose in the early 1970s, on the geometry of what are called aperiodic tiles, turned out to describe the architecture of a previously unknown lass of crystals.
(A) what are called aperiodic tiles, turned out to describe
(B) what is called aperiodic tiles, describes
(C) aperiodic tiles, describing
(D) so-called aperiodic tiles, describe
(E) aperiodic tiles, it turned out to describe

未划线的红字部分决定了谓语要用过去时

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以下是引用liflyy在2003-10-13 21:18:00的发言：
是分类这件事AMUSED CRITICS，而不是学者本人。
后两道都是时态问题

为什么不能是学者本人“娱乐”了critics呢？

GMAT不是不喜欢“所有格+动名词”这种结构么？

不过现在仔细想一想，从逻辑上好像确实应该是将....归到...之类这种行为amuse了critics

那是不是说要首先考虑逻辑的合理性，即使语法上不是那么舒服？

Bill06

      8.  One pervasive theory explains the introduction of breakfast cereals in the early 1900s as a result of the growing number of automobiles, which led to a decline in horse ownership and a subsequent grain glut; by persuading people to eat what had previously been horse feed, market equilibrium was restored.

(A) by persuading people to eat what had previously been horse feed, market equilibrium was restored

(B) persuading people to eat what had previously been horse feed restored market equilibrium

(C) by persuading people to eat what had previously been horse feed, it restored market equilibrium

(D) the persuasion of people to eat what had previously been horse feed restored market equilibrium

(E) market equilibrium was restored when people were persuaded to eat former horse feed

这题选B比D好是因为动词优于其名词形式，个人认为persuasion比较抽象，直接用动词的现在分词作主语。

不过这题偶选的是E, 郁闷！觉得E比B更好， E不对仅仅因为former这个词不合适么？

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第八题我也选E耶

哪位牛牛出来解惑一下这题确切的解释

感激不尽

sch

有NN解释,第八题里,那个 former用的不好,确切的指明了,"人现在吃的就是马当年吃的那坨草料".

但是我觉得主要问题,还是when用的不好.

原句主要是是想表达一个"方式",通过XXX,结果造成了YYY.

但是E用when,句子意思成了强调一个"时间相关"的句子,"当XXX,YYY发生了",没有强调出因果关系来.不见的XXX就是造成YYY的原因,只是2者同时发生而已.