大全-19-12

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12.   The Olympic Games helped to keep peace among the pugnacious states of the Greek world in that a sacred truce was proclaimed during the festival’s month.

(A) world in that a sacred truce was proclaimed during the festival’s month

(B) world, proclaiming a sacred truce during the festival’s month

(C) world when they proclaimed a sacred truce for the festival month

(D) world, for a sacred truce was proclaimed during the month of the festival（C）

(E) world by proclamation of a sacred truce that was for the month of the festival

I choose A, but the answer is C.

"they" in C refers to what? Olympic Games proclaim?

dingxiang

贴一下大全的解释给MM

OG-11^th的答案是D

 

This sentence depends on using the correct conjunction to join two independent clauses. In that is a conjunction that means inasmuch as; because in that has largely gone out of use, it is considered stilted and overly formal. It also uses two words when one would do. In this sentence, the second clause explains the first one, so the conjunction for; meaning because, is the most appropriate choice for joining the tow independent clauses of the compound sentence.

 

A. In that is stilted and overly formal

B. It is not clear who would be doing the proclaiming; a clause is preferable to a phase here

C. They is ambiguous, possibly referring to either the states or the Games

D. Correct. In this sentence, the conjunction for joins the two clauses correctly and economically

E Wordy and awkward construction

 

原来的注释有错：(Gmat一般不必用到常识来解，就题论题)

根据常识, Olympic Games 在sacred truce 之后

a, proclaimed during

b, proclaiming a sacred truce during

d, proclaimed during

所以都错，E太啰嗦，且by proclamation 容易产生没有合适逻辑主语的意味。可选出C，C中的they不会产生歧义， proclaim或sign truce的主语一定是nations, states 或cities等可交战的双方，Olympic Games 是不可能proclaim或sign truce的。

(A) 被动,动作发起者不明
            

(B) The Olympic Games proclaiming错
            

(C) best。they指the pugnacious states。
            

(D) 被动,动作发起者不明
            

(E) by proclamation of , 即便改成by proclaiming 也不对

根据历史背景。proclaim这里不能和during festival’smonth连在一起，因为这样意思就变为：在奥运会期间做了这么个停火声明，而实际我们知道是为了奥运会才停火，这个声明应该在奥运会之前。所以A,B,D马上可以排出，E明显错。

 

moveon

太谢谢dingxiang MM了！D makes much more sense than C!

你们怎么都能背出题号呢？

请教一个问题：大全的解释哪里有？

[此贴子已经被作者于2008-4-24 1:58:47编辑过]

dingxiang

搜一下GEMJ的帖子吧, 大全都是他做的,

另外建议MM用最新的大全987, 比mm现在用的成套的大全讨论似乎更多些, 建议看看置顶的帖子

moveon

好!改做大全987!