GWD 31-16-18 & 31-16-18 长语法题求手指点思路

soniashi

Q18:

Unlike most other mergers in the utility industry, which have been driven by the need to save money and extend companies’ service areas, the merger of the nation’s leading gas and electric company is intended to create a huge marketing network for the utilities in question with states opening their utility markets to competition.

 

 

 

 

1. and  electric company is intended to create a huge marketing network for the utilities in question with states opening
2. and electric companies are intended to create a huge network for marketing the utilities in question as states open
3. and electric companies are intended to create a huge network that will be marketing the utilities in question, with states opening
4. company and electric company are intending to create a huge marketing network for the utilities in question, with states opening
5. company and leading electric company is intended to create a huge network for marketing the utilities in question as states open

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Q19:

Heavy commitment by an executive to a course of action, especially if it has worked well in the past, makes it likely to miss signs of incipient trouble or misinterpret them when they do appear.

 

 

 

 

1. Heavy commitment by an executive to a course of action, especially if it has worried well in the past, makes it likely to miss signs of incipient trouble or misinterpret them when they do appear.
2. An executive who is heavily committed to a course of action, especially one that worked well in the past, makes missing signs of incipient trouble or misinterpreting ones likely when they do appear.
3. An executive who is heavily committed to a course of action is likely to miss or misinterpret signs of incipient trouble when they do appear, especially if it has worked well in the past.
4. Executives’ being heavily committed to a course of action, especially if it has worked well in the past, makes them likely to miss signs of incipient trouble or misinterpreting them when they do appear.
5. Being heavily committed to a course of action, especially one that has worked well in the past, is likely to make an executive miss signs of incipient trouble or misinterpret them when they do appear.

   Answer:

18题：请问A的错误点在什么地方？我反而觉得leading gas and electric company 这个说法更好。

19题：请问本题最快解题思路是怎么样的？我看了很多遍，都找不到可以定位的关键词，越看越晕。谢谢

答案：18，E ;  19，C

[此贴子已经被作者于2007-3-30 13:44:44编辑过]

yulinling

Hope this is helpful.

For question 18, the key point is not the diffrence between "gas and electric company " and " gas company and leading electric company ", but the relationship between "marketing" and "network. In choice E, "a huge network for marketing...." is more clear since "for marketing..."modifies network properly. In addition, " as states open" is better than "with states opening" to indecates a "reason" or a "situation".

Perhaps a not bad way to solute question 19 is to determine which word(s) should be the subject to the sentence.

soniashi

我也是企图找主语的，但是我总是找错。19题我就选了d,不知道有什么好的方法可以判断呢。

语感是很重要，但是这题我看过去就晕了，失去方向感的感觉。

谢谢哈

wei_wangyan

the merger of the nation’s leading gas and electric company is intended to create a huge marketing network for the utilities in question with states opening their utility markets to competition.

偶对18题的一点看法，希望有帮助。

1、先看主谓搭配，主语merger是单数，谓语要用is，只有AE符合；

2、A中的the nation's leading gas and electric company有歧义，可以理解成一个公司。E的表达很清楚，明显是两个公司之间的merger。

soniashi

倒，我就以为是一个公司的经理。

请问大侠你为什么判断是两个公司用一个经理呢？我超级不明白这一点。

wei_wangyan

merger, not manager.

soniashi

丢人了不好意思哈

其实我上个星期佩了隐形眼镜了，遗憾的是总是戴不上。这我就明白了 谢谢哈。

那19题你有啥高见？

wei_wangyan

没啥高见。

昨天刚刚跟一考友讨论过全划线句子的问题。

这种题的每个选项之间差别很大，尤其是语序上，所以并不容易判断句子的强调重心是什么，也就是说，很难确定究竟句子的主语该由谁来做。

可以从找小错入手，就这个题而言，it/one的指代，miss/interpret的平行结构等都有选项用错。

仅供参考。