求教GMATPrep中一道题：Jupiter

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如果纠正了D中mostly的问题，

把D项改成most of them at least as large as Jupiter, which circle

C选项仍然为most of them at least as large as Jupiter, circling

大家认为哪一个选项更优呢？（也就是比较which circle与circling的优劣）

谢谢！

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craftfat

<<which circle vs. circling 之差異>>

原題中: which跳躍指代them, 使得circulate修飾子句的邏輯主體(主詞)清楚.

但circling卻有就近修飾Jupiter之嫌，(refer to OG49. see below).

LZ的問題涉及(1)指代與(2)修飾，兩者必須綜合判斷，答題時將選項帶入句子感受，

亦是Pearson的重要考點之一(see below, OG49)，不妨多加留意. 也歡迎NN提出高見！

 The cameras of the Voyager II spacecraft detected six small, previously unseen moons circling Uranus, which doubles to twelve the number of satellites now known as orbiting the distant planet.

      (A) which doubles to twelve the number of satellites now known as orbiting
(B) doubling to twelve the number of satellites now known to orbit
(C) which doubles to twelve the number of satellites now known in orbit around
(D) doubling to twelve the number of satellites now known as orbiting
(E) which doubles to twelve the number of satellites now known that orbit

The pronoun which should be used to refer to a previously mentioned noun, not to the idea expressed in an entire clause. In A, C, and E, which seems to refer to a vague concept involving the detection of moons, but there is no specific noun, such as detection, to which it can refer. Also in E, the use of the phrasing the number... now known that orbit is ungrammatical and unclear. B and D use the correct participial form, doubling, to modify the preceding clause, but D, like A, uses known as orbiting rather than known to orbit, a phrase that is more idiomatic in context. B, therefore, is the best answer.

[此贴子已经被作者于2006-10-23 13:54:17编辑过]

ypngzhang

circling 简洁。