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GiGi

12.A little under a million years ago, the briny waters of the Baltic Sea began flooding into the cold North Atlantic: geologists are still debating whether the flood was gradual or created a cataclysm.
(A) whether the flood was gradual or created a cataclysm
(B) if the flood was gradual or created a cataclysm
(C) about whether the flood was gradual or cataclysmic
(D) whether the flood was gradual or cataclysmic
(E) whether the flood was gradual or it created a cataclysm
請問(E)為何錯?

31.    A star will compress itself into a white dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole after it passes through a red giant stage, depending on mass.
(A) A star will compress itself into a white dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole after it passes through a red giant stage, depending on mass.
(B) After passing through a red giant stage, depending on its mass, a star will compress itself into a white dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole.
(C) After passing through a red giant stage, a star’s mass will determine if it compresses itself into a white dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole.
(D) Mass determines whether a star, after passing through the red giant stage, will compress itself into a white dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole.
(E) The mass of a star, after passing through the red giant stage, will determine whether it compresses itself into a white dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole.
我對此題意思不解.可否提供解題方法?(答案是D)

ccording to a survey of graduating medical students conducted by the Association of American Medical Colleges, minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice in socioeconomically deprived areas.
(A) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice
(B) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than other graduates who plan on practicing
(C) minority graduates are nearly four times as likely as other graduates to plan on practicing
(D) it is nearly four times more likely that minority graduates rather than other graduates will plan to practice
(E) it is nearly four times as likely for minority graduates than other graduates to plan to practice
不解為何答案是(C)不是(A)???

深海的小美人鱼

12.a little under a million years ago, the briny waters of the baltic sea began flooding into the cold north atlantic: geologists are still debating whether the flood was gradual or created a cataclysm.
(a) whether the flood was gradual or created a cataclysm
(b) if the flood was gradual or created a cataclysm
(c) about whether the flood was gradual or cataclysmic
(d) whether the flood was gradual or cataclysmic
(e) whether the flood was gradual or it created a cataclysm
請問(e)為何錯?
e不简洁。直接用catalysmic就可以了，为什么要变成created a cataclysm。

深海的小美人鱼

31题中D的结构是最简洁的。GMAT中句子要求简洁。结构要完美。同时，不能出现歧义。depend on mass 不如说mass detemines....
而且其他句子中after passing through a red giant stag的位置变化 很容易造成歧义。

深海的小美人鱼

最后一题

more likely to do sth.所以A错。而且in planning to ...不如plan to.

Allen

以下是引用GiGi在2003-12-16 3:52:00的发言：
ccording to a survey of graduating medical students conducted by the Association of American Medical Colleges, minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice in socioeconomically deprived areas.
(A) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice
(B) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than other graduates who plan on practicing
(C) minority graduates are nearly four times as likely as other graduates to plan on practicing
(D) it is nearly four times more likely that minority graduates rather than other graduates will plan to practice
(E) it is nearly four times as likely for minority graduates than other graduates to plan to practice
不解為何答案是(C)不是(A)???

对这题很多人有不同看法: 安兄和BraveMBA兄均坚定认为是A, while sbbi & gemj think C.
Very controversial.
My key: A

Snazzy

1, E has the problem of parallelism. gradual//cataclysmic, both of them r adj.
2, Question Mark??? whose mass? who passing? D doesn't seem clear. PLEASE EXPLAIN!
3, I choose A

GiGi

請問有沒有人可以再清楚解釋#31.........

ca3ltoys

31.
A-- according to the sentence's meaning, "a star will compress itself into a white dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole after it passes through a red giant stage" should be the subject of the entire sentence, "depending on" here is not correct
B-- here putting "passing through a red giant stage, depending on its mass" together will confuse us they two parallel to each other, change the meaning of the sentence.
C-- "if" should be " whether"
E-- here seems like "the mass passing throught the red giant stage" not "a star"