P1-57 / P2-77

doudoulovely

同意of结构修饰structures,意思为每个建筑物有600个rooms,

如果修饰settlements 意思难以理解， of 结构用双逗号隔开使插入语， with .....connected 是独立主格形势修饰主语settlements,望大家予以指正

goo_puu3

同意doudoulovely's 解释. connected 是修饰主语 settlements.

ticket2005

贴一个外国人的解释:
choice a is a run-on - it tries to have two main verbs without using
any sort of subordinating element. if you take out modifiers,
adjectives, etc., you're left with the following: the settlements were built with structures were connected. that's bad.


    

choice b is correct: it uses a nonessential modifier set off by commas
('of up to 600 rooms each'), which, if eliminated, yields the intact
and legitimate sentence ...carefully engineered structures, connected by... (with another nonessential modifier).


    

choice c:


- 'scale of' doesn't make sense


- you can't say 'each that had...' (can't follow 'each' with a relative
pronoun - if you're going to use a relative pronoun, it has to come
directly after the thing it's trying to modify)

- no justification for using the past perfect ('had been') - that
verb, if there's a verb there at all, should be in the simple past (the
same tense as everything else in the sentence, because everything
described in the sentence is contemporaneous)


- it doesn't make sense to use 'each' AFTER the comma, because it's not true that each structure was connected with a road system.  instead, the road system connected all of the structures with each other,
which is nowhere close to the same thing. (having 'each' BEFORE the
comma makes sense, because it's actually true that each of the
structures comprised up to 600 rooms.)


analogy:


    the USA comprises 50 states, each of which is united by a federal government --> wrong (the implication is that each state has its own federal government)


    the USA comprises 50 states, all of which are united by a federal government --> correct


    the USA comprises 50 states, (all) united by a federal government --> correct, whether you have 'all' or not


    

choice d:


- 'scale of' doesn't make sense


- the use of AND sets up ostensible parallelism, but the two structures given aren't parallel (one starts with of and the other with with)


    

choice e is also a run-on sentence (you'll see this if you reduce it to its 'skeleton', a la choice a)

chenju31

删了, 自有专家解释

[此贴子已经被作者于2008-6-17 21:37:03编辑过]

月夜圣童

我也有一些PP的问题，看了些讨论，发现和我的题号都不一样啊？我版本的第一题是

1.  To meet the rapidly rising market demand for fish and seafood, suppliers are growing fish twice as fast as their natural growth rate, cutting their feed allotment by nearly half and raising them on special diets.

(A) their natural growth rate, cutting their feed allotment

(B) their natural growth rate, their feed allotment cut

(C) growing them naturally, cutting their feed allotment

(D) they grow naturally, cutting their feed allotment

(E) they grow naturally, with their feed allotment cut

我是打算2010年考的，现在做这个过时么？望大侠赐教~

AlienX

fixed.