真题4（大全42题）讨论总结

cthd007

Personally, I think the right answer whether is A or C is besisde the point now. What made me so impressed and learnt from this is that gemj's attitude and everyone's contribution and involving.

Just for your curious, i did ask this question for my friends (one guy scored 45 in verbal, and he's a native). All those guys picked up A, but only one NN can give out the explanation, the rests judged it by feeling.

My major point is not convincing your guys with those NNs, but rather get senses and learn from what native america thought. After all, GMAT is an american exam.

Here is his explanation:

The basic problem with C is that it breaks the parallel structure. It says minority graduates are four times as likely as other graudates to plan...
Here the comparison is meant to be between what the minority graduates plan versus what other graduates plan : Hence it should have been worded as

"minority graduates are nearly four times as likely as are other graduates"

[此贴子已经被作者于2003-11-5 5:02:24编辑过]

tianwan

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This room is three times larger than that one. 这个房间比哪个房间大2倍。（注意，不是大3倍）

[此贴子已经被作者于2004-4-3 18:19:53编辑过]

wangdaya

好样的。谢了。

quiny

3x

vivinzone

好棒！

icare1

顶

philipsnf

以下是引用pekingpuppy在2003-11-3 11:06:00的发言：
同意C：C的倍数为4倍，而原题中的意思也应该是4倍。这里说“应该是四倍”，是因为这个第一选项语意模糊。原题中的more既可以修饰likely，也可以修饰four times。原题这句话有两种理解方式：

minority graduates are nearly four times （more likely）than are other graduates in planning to practice...

minority graduates are nearly four times （more likely than are）other graduates in planning to practice...

出题者本意应该是用more than迷惑考生一下，让你掉入4倍还是5倍的陷阱。而实际上，more likely than are本身就是语意含混，让读者连4倍还是5倍都闹不清，难道还没错吗？

再看选项(C)：

minority graduates are nearly four times as likely as other graduates to plan on practicing

as likely as就没有那种由more likely than are引起的歧意。因此我想“不改变出题原意”这个原则实际上是一个大大的悖论，宜慎用：原题本身就有可能是错的，而且是80％的可能是错的，在这个前提下，谁能保证它的“原意”是什么？我认为就是找“原意”也要在划线部分以外找“原意”，否则这个“原意”本身就建立在沙滩之上，谈何正确。GMAT白纸黑字写着要考生去掉模棱两可的选项，一切那些新东方自己摸索出来的不成文的规则都要服从这个“指代唯一，含意确定无误”原则。

我认为这个解释比楼主的更准确，因为词语修饰的歧义性本身就是GMAT考试的一个考点

香香茶

前人的精华，真是让人佩服。顶上来，让更多人看到。

毛毛青虫

我自己假想的最佳答案：

minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than other graduates in planning to practice

小小亚述

以下是引用pekingpuppy在2003-11-3 11:06:00的发言：
同意C：C的倍数为4倍，而原题中的意思也应该是4倍。这里说“应该是四倍”，是因为这个第一选项语意模糊。原题中的more既可以修饰likely，也可以修饰four times。原题这句话有两种理解方式：

minority graduates are nearly four times （more likely）than are other graduates in planning to practice...

minority graduates are nearly four times （more likely than are）other graduates in planning to practice...

出题者本意应该是用more than迷惑考生一下，让你掉入4倍还是5倍的陷阱。而实际上，more likely than are本身就是语意含混，让读者连4倍还是5倍都闹不清，难道还没错吗？

再看选项(C)：

minority graduates are nearly four times as likely as other graduates to plan on practicing

as likely as就没有那种由more likely than are引起的歧意。因此我想“不改变出题原意”这个原则实际上是一个大大的悖论，宜慎用：原题本身就有可能是错的，而且是80％的可能是错的，在这个前提下，谁能保证它的“原意”是什么？我认为就是找“原意”也要在划线部分以外找“原意”，否则这个“原意”本身就建立在沙滩之上，谈何正确。GMAT白纸黑字写着要考生去掉模棱两可的选项，一切那些新东方自己摸索出来的不成文的规则都要服从这个“指代唯一，含意确定无误”原则。

的确把27楼的解释和gemj　ＧＧ的结合起来就更好了．

good discussion ! 谢谢各位ＮＮ分析!