两道争议已久的gwd,今天来做个了断吧!!!come on!!

pychina

Socially and environmentally responsible investing is on the rise:  last year in the United States, over $2 trillion was invested in funds that screen companies according to a variety of criteria such as adherence to labor standards, protection of the environment, and observance of human rights.

 

A.      according to a variety of criteria such as

B.     according to a variety of such criteria, as by

C.     according to such a variety of criteria as by

D.     in accordance with such a variety of criteria as

E.     in accordance with a variety of criteria, such as by

争议在A和D之间,问了两个nn,偏偏两个NN一个说选A有说选D,AD都有依照...,且都有举例的意思.两个人也无

法完全否定另一

个答案,只是有个说A更常用,且D似乎强调的重点没A清楚,我看了GWD的答案也是在AD间争

议,大家看看这

题该选什么.

Responding to the public’s fascination with-and sometimes undue alarm over-possible threats from asteroids, a scale developed by astronomers rates the likelihood that a particular asteroid or comet may collide with Earth.

A.      developed by astronomers rates the likelihood

that a particular asteroid or comet may

B.     a scale that astronomers have developed rates how

likely it is for a particular asteroid or comet to

C.     astronomers have developed a scale to rate how likely

a particular asteroid or comet will be to

D.     astronomers have developed a scale for rating
                    the

likelihood that a particular asteroid or comet will

E.     astronomers have developed a scale that rates the

likelihood of a particular asteroid or comet that may.

争议在C与D之间,这题我贴过一次,很多朋友热心跟了贴先表示感谢,但仔细看了看似乎也没个确切的可信服的理由.后来有人google到TIMES的原文,原文是"adopted a scale that rates the likelihood that a particular asteroid or comet will collide with Earth."很明显GMAC进行了改写,仅凭原文也无法判断.没办法还是得再贴一次出来了,希望NN们再来看看.有说for rating是gmac不喜欢的,但不喜欢似乎不能说gmac就否定了这种用法,还是说大家有谁看到OG中说for doing sth.是不好的呢?同时也有人说how likely a particular... will be to的倒装不好,但不好也不代表错,事实上这个倒装没什么问题,但个人到是觉得how这个从句的成分有些问题,如果是定语从句,那他修饰的主体不存在(肯定不是rate),状语从句?不是!主语从句?不是!宾语从句?如果是宾语从句,那rate后作为动作性宾语从句应该加个that.而且这里似乎也不是宾语从句(除非句子的谓语是"develope sth. to do sth.").谁能说说这个how 是个什么从句充当什么成分呢?他修饰的主体是否存在呢?

希望这个帖子能给这两道争议已久的gwd题做个了断吧!

dphxmg

先说第一题：我认为A是对的。首先，“adherence to labor standards, protection of the environment, and observance of human rights”中的任意一个都是具体的criterion，也即是例子。such as用来引出例子习惯，也没问题。所以，A是正确的。当然，也可以将such提到criteria之前，即such criteria as...
那么D错在哪呢？ 在“such a variety of criteria” 这个结构里，such是用来表达强调而不是引出例子的。例如：John is such a nice person. （=John is really nice。）It's still such a long way home。
Such a variety of criteria = a great many different criteria.

Time to dinner, I'll be back in 30 minutes.

dphxmg

第二题，I think D is the key.
First of all, both "a scale to rate sth" or "a scale for rating" are acceptable. So it's not the point in issue.

But what's wrong with C. I think "will be to" is not correct, either grammatically or logically, even if it's grammatically acceptable. Grammatically, I haven't seen "will" and "be to" are linked together immediately in any real sentence. Well, of course, this is a bit weak reason against C.

It's logically unacceptable. When "to be" is used independently, it can be used to:
(1) express "directives";or
(2) future events which are
    a. pre-fixed (the hitting can't be pre-fixed. Otherwise we don't need the scale for rating the likelihood.)
    b. desirable (I don't think being hitting by a asteroid or comet would be desirable.)
    c. hypothetical (only used in "were to")

mych666666

 第二题： 我在OG中看到过，在表目的时，to do 优于for doing . 不过一时想不起来在哪一页上。

guessnameok

第一题我认为肯定选A  因为D中such a variety of criteria as sth    此时的重心是variety 后面的举例只是各种criteria 的标准。A中according 引导方式状语修饰screen

第二题我也认为肯定选D  will 和be to 两个都表示将来，明显重复 .此外GMAT 倾向于用一简单名词表示句子再用定语修饰该词。因为C和D的表达不牵涉到缺少信息，所以在此种情况下，用the likelihood 比how likely 引导的句子要好！

yankevi

我选D。。。C。。

首先我觉得will  和be to不是都表示将来时，只是be  likely to的likely提前了，虽然我觉得很绕口，可是在OG中明确说了表示动作的目的的话，是to  do的。。

pychina

这几天又做了做题,个人感觉应该是A D!

Lily0515

同意楼主ans

roaringwjj

不错