真题4（大全42题）讨论总结

飞天猪piggy

时隔3年 现在看看还是精华！！！

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CedricLi

以下是引用飞天猪piggy在2006-12-14 23:48:00的发言：

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3年半了。。。

plato1983

分析果然透彻，佩服

plato1983

分析果然透彻，佩服

LuckiPanda

时隔10年 再看看还会是精华

kittymiaomiao

thank you very much. very helpful

huangyh03

只是现在的大牛似乎少了，怀念2003那个大牛云集的年代

ranning

个人认为其实这道题的解题关键在于likely to这个搭配...看好这个就可以了

tw0102

楼上的MM能不能说的更详细些呢?

tw0102

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。

超级不同意pekingpuppy GG的见解,如果是这样的话,就那前面gemj举的例子来说,

However, they were 14 to 23 times more likely than non-threateners to report having attacked someone with a knife and 17 times more likely to report having shot at someone.

也可以做这样的分析:

However, they were 14 to 23 times (more likely) than non-threateners to report having attacked someone with a knife and 17 times more likely to report having shot at someone.

However, they were 14 to 23 times (more likely than) non-threateners to report having attacked someone with a knife and 17 times more likely to report having shot at someone.

这样的话,大家都不要做比较啦