大全987-19 我的也凑凑热闹吧

alice1880505

19. A President entering the final two years of a second term is likely to be at a severe disadvantage and is often unable to carry out a legislative program.
(A) likely to be at a severe disadvantage and is often unable to
(B) likely severely disadvantaged and often unable to
(C) liable to be severely disadvantaged and cannot often
(D) liable that he or she is at a severe disadvantage and cannot often
(E) at a severe disadvantage, often likely to be unable that he or she can

答案是A,想问问C为什么不行，不是更简洁吗

[此贴子已经被作者于2008-6-24 11:13:25编辑过]

足球幽灵

个人觉得，C的逻辑意思不对，把C代入，简化下句子：A president is liable to be severely disadvantaged.原文要表达的意思是总统很可能处于不利的位置，而C表示的是总统很可能被处于不利的位置，变成了被动,似乎是有人使他变的不利了。

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alice1880505

还是觉得有点不大明白，disadvantaged可以用做形容词“处于不利地位的”，不一定把它想成形容词。。。

以下是引用足球幽灵在2008-6-20 20:40:00的发言：

个人觉得，C的逻辑意思不对，把C代入，简化下句子：A president is liable to be severely disadvantaged.原文要表达的意思是总统很可能处于不利的位置，而C表示的是总统很可能被处于不利的位置，变成了被动,似乎是有人使他变的不利了。

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alice1880505

顶之，请牛人解答！

dingxiang

非牛人

LDOCE:

liable to do something
            likely to do or say something or to behave in a particular way, especially because of a fault or natural tendency [= likely]:

The car is liable to overheat on long trips.

He was liable to just show up without warning.

虽然上面说liable=likely

但GMAT很多例子告诉我们, 要忠于原句意思,C不但把A的likely改为liable, 还把unable 改为cannot, 意思是不一样的,注意unable表示能力,can表示可能性

AlienX

Not NN.

OG中的解釋跟dingxiang提的一樣:
In C and D, cannot
often carry out suggests that a President with limited time suffers only
from an inability to achieve legislative goals frequently, not from a frequent
inability to achieve them at all.

alice1880505

谢谢两位，豁然开朗

rtmls

新东方王少华的解释：把likely改成liable是个典型错误，因为表达意思不一样的

beautywood

为什么B 不可以呢