求助: ability of doing = wrong

valleywest

121. A firm that specializes in the analysis of handwriting claims __
more than 300 hundred personality traits, including enthusiasm,
imagination, and ambition.

C. the ability, from a one-page writing sample, of assessing

D. to be able, from a one-page writing sample, to assess

E. being able to assess, from a one-page writing sample

    

Correct answer is D. However, I do not understand why C is not correct.
OG explains "the ability ... of assessing" is not a correct idiom. But
it sounds OK to me. For example, searching "ability of doing" in google
gives 274,000 hits. 求助!!!

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gary092083

be able    to
ability      to

be capable   of
capability     of

這是我上課的老師說的，很多字的用法是固定的，

所以C 要改成the ability, from a one-page writing sample, TO assess

dingxiang

很多用法不能凭感觉哦, google的也不代表是GMAT所要求的buz English,最好还是能查查字典

朗文字典是很好的参考,网站是http://pewebdic2.cw.idm.fr/

楼上的说对了一大半,但我查了下朗文

关于capability是capability to do something ;capable是capable of (doing) something

至于GMAT里面的用法我不是特别确定和朗文的一样,有待考证, 这里我贴出朗文的用法给大家参考

valleywest

谢谢!!!