T-4-Q12 again (新prep 2-177)

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mhe2

到底for是什么用法？

moonwalker

以下是引用ccccccccccab在2009/7/27 22:43:00的发言：
同问，and milked 前为嘛要加逗号咧。。。。

onedayling

我怎么觉得A挺靠谱的呢~

A. providing them with high-energy feed, and milking them regularly, Holstein cows are producing我觉得没有歧义，既然providing后面接的是them就不可能会指代到单数farmer,也不可能指代到cows本身（因为如果指代cows那就一定会是themselves），根本不存在歧义。

退一步说假使A有歧义了，那E也有可能有歧义啊。E.provided with high-energy feed, and milked regularly为什么就不会产生歧义去指代前面的farmer呢？

从gmat考核要求来说，E选项的语序颠倒也着实让我难以理解它为什么对。我记得Gmat考核要求句子简洁、易懂？

而E与之违背~

请高人指点！！

FFcapm

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 "rovided 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.

-- by 会员 YesWeCanWin (2009/5/20 11:29:00)

Ding....very good explanation..

sumerlaw

我的理解是这样的
For在句首表示原因,后面三个成分并列: the farmer/ provided/ milked 都是用来表示原因的,所以milked前面有",and"
介词结构结束后,主语cows出来了

icefiremin

觉得楼上的解释有问题，如果for表原因的话后面应该加完整的句子，但这里明显缺宾语。
我的理解是：
for the farmer是指生产给farmer，只不过这里为了强调farmer把它们照顾得好这一点而把它提前到句首了。其实正常的语序可以看是如下：
Provided with high-energy feed, and milked regularly, Holstein cows will produce an average of 2,275 gallons of mild each per year for the farmer who takes care to keep them cool.
也就是把provided and milked当成过去分词结构修饰cows.

venus2elva

= = 被ETS耍死了。。。

shadow影

Original sentence: 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.

总结一下

1. for引导条件状从。
cool，provided with，milked是平行关系，都是keep them的补语。原句中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。要强调的是，provided with，milked，其动作发出者仍然是牛，被动-ed，过去分词修饰them(Cows)，表动作完成的状态。而后面主语是牛，动作发出者也清晰。
所以去掉A.B.C., D.E.对

2. 平行。
其实5个选项与KEEP都不平行，但是结合知识点1.分析，
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 "rovided 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).

3. 代词指代
未划线部分有Keep them cool, 所以主语一定是复数，排除B.D.

4. 时态（不是排除点）
大家要注意，时态是author oriented的，除非题目有明确时间指示与Since等指示词，否则不能作为一个Solid的排除点，像本题现在进行时和一般将来时

momomoon

关于在这里for引导状语从句这个说法有点怀疑。。。
如果for在这里做连词引导状从，后面应该加句子才对，但照楼上的总结cool, sated, miked平行作keep them的补语的话，那就等于for后面其实只有farmers这一个名词而不是句子，那for在这里就不可能是作连词引导状从。。所以楼上的这解释是不是有点自相矛盾？？