抢答：OG #60

Eleanoryf

60. According to a recent poll, owning and living in a freestanding house on its own land is still a goal of a majority of young adults, like that of earlier generations.
(A)    like that of earlier generations
(B)    as that for earlier generations
(C)    just as earlier generations did
(D)    as have earlier generations
(E)    as it was of earlier generations

yzlinlin

你想问什么？

Eleanoryf

A 为什么不对。其THAT 指代GOAL。

cherry3213

我也是同样的疑问:A中,省略了was, 所以应该可以用like这个介词短语呀.
还是说, 虽然是省略了助动词,但that of earlier generations (was)还应视为一个独立的句字,所以不能用like 对吗?
顺便,能解释一下比较结构的省略原则吗? 因为OG-46题中,答案E中也没有补出助动词啊

bluestone1

我觉得

like 短语一般是与主语比较的

A 就成了（ that of earlier generations）   is still a goal of a majority of young adults.

shellyaaa

that指代不清。优先指代主语“owning and living in a freestanding house on its own land ”。所以e中it指代此主语，as指代goal. e正确。

[此贴子已经被作者于2003-12-3 5:12:46编辑过]

weane

我觉得从句子含义出发，应该不会产生歧义。而且a goal of a majority of young adults和that of earlier generations并列正好体现出句子的平衡

雪落无声

看迷糊了，NN解答，A为什么不对？为什么不能指代goal?

lwei1016

A指代goal 无可比性,这里是不同时代的比较,基本结构是doing something is a goal of sb,as it was (a goal)of sb.要多多的体味句子的意思啊!这里的比较比较特殊是因为理解上的不太通畅.        

lyn

I think ETS just reqires us to choose the relatively best answer.  E is a better expression than A in this case.  lease see another sentence without a verb corresponding to the main clause:

More than thirty years ago Dr. Barbara Mc-Clintock, the Nobel Prize winner, reported that genes can “jump,” as pearls moving mysteriously from one necklace to another.

(A) as pearls moving mysteriously from one necklace to another

(B) like pearls moving mysteriously from one necklace to another

(C) as pearls do that move mysteriously from one necklace to others

(D) like pearls do that move mysteriously from one necklace to others

(E) as do pearls that move mysteriously from one necklace to some other one

Answer: B

GMAT, like the real business, only asks us to choose the relatively best answer within available options.

[此贴子已经被作者于2004-5-16 11:49:19编辑过]