以下是引用JerryGuan在2004-3-25 2:11:00的发言: with短语前无逗号,做定语优先修前面的名词。 另,提请注意:The attorney turned down the law firm’s offer of a position because she suspected that it was meant merely to fill an affirmative action quota and did not reflect a commitment to minority hiring and eventual promotion. it was meant merely to fill 只意味着充数。。。按常理上说应该是:it meant merely to fill, 但朗文上有: be meant to do something a) if you are meant to do something, you should do it, especially because someone has told you to or because you are responsible for it Come on, Ellen, you're meant to be helping me. I thought the police were meant to protect people. b) to be intended to do something The diagram is meant to show the different stages of the process.
这些企业应该是:be intended to fill an affirmative action quota . 而不是:are responsible for an affirmative action quota
紫色部分说的我不是那么能接受, OG56C就是一个反例. without前面没有逗号, 做状语修饰整个句子.
我觉得这题发散出来的考点值得研究, 大家都在AC上面的with结构上面讨论, 其实要我选AB相较, B的伴随取消了with歧义, 比A更好, 我会在BC之间选. 我觉得排除的关键是动词"reflect".
看一个OG的题目可能就理解了:
214. Although the term "psychopath" is popularly applied to an especially brutal criminal, in psychology it is someone who is apparently incapable of feeling compassion or the pangs of conscience.
(A) it is someone who is
(B) it is a person
(C) they are people who are
(D) it refers to someone who is
(E) it is in reference to people
In choices A and B, the pronoun it simultaneously refers forward to someone (or a person) and backward to the term "psychopath" As a result, the sentence asserts illogically that the term is actually a kind of person rather than a word referring to a kind of person. Choice C repeats this fault and adds an error in agreement: they (plural) does not agree in number with the term (singular). E omits a main verb, such as applied, that, in grammatical context here, is required after is. Also, the word people incorrectly shifts number from singular to plural. In choice D, the best answer, the verb refers is correctly used after it, and the alignment of pronouns and antecedents is both logical and grammatical.
OG说的明确, 主要动词是不可省略的, 推广一步, 下次再看到这种两个选项差在一个"实意"动词的时候, 应该小心了.
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