T-4-Q12 again (新prep 2-177)

lcy19812000

再回一帖，b4 ETS，考平行，却用如此卑鄙的伎俩破环平行的逻辑！

真是可恶！！！

坚决打倒你，ETS！

babee2queen

那个……弱弱的问：为什么用将来时？

YesWeCanWin

老外的解释：

So, A should say "providing them with high energy feed, and milking them regularly, Holstein cows are producing " This makes a list out of "to keep," "providing," and "milking" which is a list, but it fails the parallelism test. Also, the verb tense "are producing" is wrong - if the farmer takes care of them, they will respond a certain way. Eliminate A. (Note that I added a comma missing from the original text, above.)

B also has parallelism issues (providing, milked), as does C (provided and milking). D and E have parallelism with provided and milked, but they still don't match "to keep." And this is where this one gets really hard. Most people will want to keep this as a list of three things, with those three words properly parallel - and that would be a good way to write the sentence, but they haven't given us that option.

If we lopped off that opening clause, we'd have "Provided with high energy feed, and milked regularly, Holstein cows..." That's okay. Then they add this separate clause out front (the "For the farmer" bit) and this is what makes it sound bad b/c we want to combine that opening clause with the provided and milked piece. Since we don't have that as an option, we're forced to look at them as separate items (though we do still want parallelism between provided and milked).

Then, we're just left with "produces" vs. "will produce" since D and E both use provided and milked. The sentence begins "For the farmer who takes care to keep THEM cool" so we have to use plural for the cows. Answer D uses singular, so E is the answer.

 

watergood

顶楼上，解释得真好

china101

谁能解释一下，for从句为什么是条件状从？我怎么就看不出来呢？我就是在d，e徘徊。。。

当然老外用单复数解释的也不错。。。

vivian0331

以下是引用lcy19812000在2009-4-30 16:44:00的发言：

5楼解释不对。

原文是这样的：（from “scienceonline”）

When it comes to milk production, nothing beats Holsteins. For the farmer who takes care to keep them cool, sated with high-energy chow, and milked regularly—often under the management of a sophisticated computer—these familiar black-and-white cows produce an average of 2,275 gallons of milk each per year. The average Brown Swiss, in contrast, produced only 1,820 gallons last year, and a Jersey less than 1,600.

本题中cool，provided with，milked是平行关系，都是keep them的补语。句子整体结构是：for sb.，cows do sth.。

原文中，cool，sated，milked很明显是表状态的并列关系。而本题中把sated换作provided，让人感觉provided强调动作而非状态，不能与cool平行，造成考生的逻辑混乱。ETS真阴险！！！

另外，金山词霸讲provided with是“拥有”的意思（可以理解为表状态的词组，这种解释使它能与cool平行），但是LOngman中没有这种提法。

大家是否同意这个说法？

还有"and milked"前面为什么要加逗号？

newport

respect and agree

gundam00

pwss

UP

ccccccccccab

同问，and milked 前为嘛要加逗号咧。。。。