小兵张嘎的语法难题之十二

小兵张嘎

An attempt to (ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, begun almost two decades ago,) has been unsuccessful despite efforts by many important groups, including the National Organization for Women.
a)    To ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, begun almost two decades ago,
d)    at ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment, begun almost two decades ago,
答案是A，二者有何区别？


谢了先！

1stzhang

其实，attempt 后面是可以接at，on ,to 的，但是gmat的语法原则有一条：在逻辑意思没有错误的情况下，尽量地使用动词的原形不做修改。在这个题目中to do可以明显的表明目的，根本不需要把ratify改成ing的名词形式。

siebel

gg 的题都是哪里出来的，标明也好让俺也举举手 :-)

困难是弹簧

对一般情况下是：attempt to do
                        attempt at +N