og 153 (讨论汇总里无人答)

yoyobaobao

153. A recording system was so secretly installed and operated in the Kennedy Oval Office that even Theodore C. Sorensen, the White House counsel, did not know it existed.

(A)  A recording system was so secretly installed and
                operated in the Kennedy Oval Office that

(B)  So secret was a recording system installation
                and operation in the Kennedy Oval Office

(C)  It was so secret that a recording system was installed and operated in the Kennedy Oval Office

(D)  A recording system that was so secretly
                installed and operated in the Kennedy Oval
                Office

(E)  Installed and operated so secretly in the
                Kennedy Oval Office was a recording system
                that

A, the best choice, correctly focuses upon the recording system by making it the straightforward subject of the sentence and the logical referent of the pronoun it in the last line. B makes installation and operation the subject, distorting the focus and leaving it without a clear referent. C distorts the focus with an awkward and confusing delayed subject construction. C also omits the conjunction that necessary to introduce the clause stating the result (even Sorenson did not know . . .). D, a long noun phrase with no finite verb, produces a fragment rather than a complete sentence. E awkwardly inverts the order of the subject and predicate in the main clause and thus cannot be logically connected to the remainder of the sentence。

作题的时候老觉得（A）
                A recording system
                    was so secretly installed
                    and operated in the Kennedy Oval Office that 别扭，好像是说“a recording system”被“很神秘的安装”和应用在Kennedy Oval Office的意思，就是说我认为A有歧义，was so secretly installed和operated是平行的。同时，我觉得（C）的表达除了缺少that，整个结构It was so secret that a recording system was installed and operated in the Kennedy Oval Office是清晰的，表达了
                “a recording system”的安装和操作是秘密的这个意思，但不知道答案里为什么要说句子的中心词被滞后了。

讨论汇总里有人提到了A中歧义的问题，但是当时没有人解答。我虽然觉得A有歧义，但又觉得要真是was so secretly installed和operated是平行的，还有点怪怪的，请大家帮忙，多谢！

elli123

有时候最正确的答案不一定是最佳答案，但是起码答案正确，简洁，没有歧义。
A选项里，就是说这个SYSTEM里很神秘的被安装和运行，地点是在KENNEKY的办公室里。本句考的就是SO。。。。。THAT的用法，A选项本身没有歧义呀。平行就是平行，没有什么感觉怪怪的呀。
B没有THAT，C太罗嗦，不简洁，并且强调的是秘密，不是SYSTEM，改变了句子的重点，D没谓语，E强调的是安装和运行也改了句子重点。所以只有A对。

yoyobaobao

谢elli123 MM，C选项我现在懂了，正像你所讲的中心词是“system”，所以ETS说中心词滞后了，但我对A的疑问是，为什么不可以把so secretly看作只修饰installed呢，而不是修饰installed and operated,这样不就产生了歧义吗？“a recording system”被“很神秘的安装”和应用。请各位再帮帮忙！多谢了！

yaoshuming

因为so...that是一个词组，也就是一个整体，所有把这个词组拆开的选项都是错误的

mm并没有把so secretly installed and
                operated in the Kennedy Oval Office that
                这一部分看成是一个整体，其实 installed and operated in the Kennedy Oval Office 因为放在了so...that词组中间，就不应该再非要把它们分开看，说他们在分别修饰几个词或是尤其有歧义。我不是nn，大家继续讨论

liubin1987

C中的句子后面加上个comma才有可能正确,否则就是个流水帐式的句子了. 而A中的installed & operated并不会产生歧义.其实这里应该是个省略

A recording system was so secretly installed and (was so secretly )operated

 

 

同上,我也不是NN,所以大家指正了~~~

avimi

以下是引用yoyobaobao在2007-2-7 12:18:00的发言：

谢elli123 MM，C选项我现在懂了，正像你所讲的中心词是“system”，所以ETS说中心词滞后了，但我对A的疑问是，为什么不可以把so secretly看作只修饰installed呢，而不是修饰installed and operated,这样不就产生了歧义吗？“a recording system”被“很神秘的安装”和应用。请各位再帮帮忙！多谢了！
                        

如果so secretly是修饰installed的，那么那个that是干什么的呢？这样就说不通了。所以so……that是一个整体。lz不要把它分开来读。

 

zara0090

其实我读完之后感觉a的意思表达最顺。

yoyobaobao

thanks,got it!