OG10-52, 紫皮8

pelong

52. The rising of costs of data-processing operations at many financial institutions has created a growing opportunity for independent companies to provide these services more efficiently and at lower cost.

(A)  The rising of costs

(B)   Rising costs

(C)  The rising cost

(D)  Because the rising cost

(E)   Because of rising costs

C is the best choice. In choice A, The rising of costs is unidiomatic, and in B costs... has lacks subject-verb agreement. Choices D and E produce sentence fragments since Because makes the clause subordinate rather than independent.

解释说A：the rising of costs is unidiomatic。我觉得应该是rising本身created the opportunity啊，而不是the rising cost

但是OG10-150, 紫皮17中：

150. In the mid-1960's a newly installed radar warning system mistook the rising of the moon as a massive missile attack by the Soviets. (B)

(A)  rising of the moon as a massive missile attack by the Soviets

(B)   rising of the moon for a massive Soviet missile attack

(C)  moon rising to a massive missile attack by the Soviets

(D)  moon as it was rising for a massive Soviet
                    missile attack

(E)   rise of the moon as a massive Soviet missile
                    attack

B中用的不就是the rising of the moon么

请NN指教。

pelong

唉，自己顶一下。路过此地的朋友，发表一下见解啊

Colx

The rising cost
        

the rising of the moon

个人理解中心词不一样，你要是有困惑建议查查以前的帖子，讨论的蛮多的

pc123

同意楼上的看法。个人觉得第二个题强调的rising的动作，而不是moon。

pelong

以下是引用pc123在2008-5-31 16:17:00的发言：

同意楼上的看法。个人觉得第二个题强调的rising的动作，而不是moon。

同意。所以我才觉得52题可以选A啊，强调rising创造了机会啊

huangxiuying

动词RISE有名词形式RISE，就不倾向于用THE RISING代替RISE，A也不符合表达习惯

szy733

up

szy733

此题的争议点一般多在AC之间出现，The rising of costs of data-processing operations at many financial institutions has created a growing opportunity for independent companies to provide these services more efficiently and at lower cost. 如果选A的话，则强调的是上涨这个动作创造了机会，显然从句意的理解应该是价格上涨的结果创造了机会，所以如果A改成the rise of costs这样就对了，所以只有C，The rising cost上涨的价格创造了机会，是正确的。

记住这个经典的例子。注意，如果想表示上涨的结果，应该用rise的自有名词rise而不是动名词rising。