GWD7-Q31

winner2006

GWD7-Q31:

Unlike the original National Museum of Science and Technology in Italy, where the models are encased in glass or operated only by staff members, the Virtual Leonardo Project, an online version of the museum, encourages visitors to “touch” each exhibit, which thereby activates the animated functions of the piece.

 

1. exhibit, which thereby activates

2. exhibit, in turn an activation of

3. exhibit, and it will activate

4. exhibit and thereby activate

5. exhibit which, as a result, activates

Why D? It should be "activates" for my understanding.

Thanks.

graceyin7

因為原句是: encourages visitors to touch and to activate，所以 activate 不加"s"

winner2006

以下是引用graceyin7在2006-12-21 2:00:00的发言：
因為原句是: encourages visitors to touch and to activate，所以 activate 不加"s"

Disagree.

I don't think the original sentence means "encourages visitors to touch and to activate". "activate" is not paralleled with "touch".

Actually there is a "thereby" in answer D and "thereby" means "by that means", "in that way", therefore, the whole sentence should be encourage visitors to touch and by doing so (encouraging visitors to touch) it activates .... if the every element of the sentence is not omitted.

If there is no "thereby", the answer could be "activate".

graceyin7

要用 avtivate，必須要有 thereby，句意才合乎邏輯。因為 touch 與 activate 兩動作間有因果與時間先後的關係存在。

winner2006

以下是引用graceyin7在2006-12-21 4:54:00的发言：
要用 avtivate，必須要有 thereby，句意才合乎邏輯。因為 touch 與 activate 兩動作間有因果與時間先後的關係存在。

Sorry. I didn't see your point. Just because "touch 與 activate 兩動作間有因果與時間先後的關係存在", they two can't be paralleled after "to".

graceyin7

Sorry that I didn't make myself clear...

At the underlying syntactic structure，touch 與 activate 平行；語意上，由於 touch 與 activate 有因果及時間先後關係，因此以 thereby (by means of) 連結。

Iawfy

同意graceyin7
要先touch，再activate
程序上activate是touch的结果
D中activate只是省略了to

graceyin7

沒錯!

winner2006

以下是引用graceyin7在2006-12-21 6:24:00的发言：

Sorry that I didn't make myself clear...

At the underlying syntactic structure，touch 與 activate 平行；語意上，由於 touch 與 activate 有因果及時間先後關係，因此以 thereby (by means of) 連結。

Thank you so much anyway, however, your explanation was really confusing.

"encourages visitors to touch and to activate". It's impossible and illigical to "encourage visitors to activate" since visitors can't activate something actively, it is "encouraging visitors to touch" ACTIVATES....

My understanding is: either this answer is wrong or there is other explanation for choosing this answer.

However, your explantion can't make sense either logically or grammatically.

Thanks anyway.

winner2006

以下是引用Iawfy在2006-12-21 9:05:00的发言：
同意graceyin7
要先touch，再activate
程序上activate是touch的结果
D中activate只是省略了to

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