OG11-11

gracie495824

　11.   Warning that computers in the United States are not secure, the National Academy of Sciences has urged the nation to revamp computer security procedures, institute new emergency response teams, creating a special nongovernment organization to take charge of computer security planning.

(A) creating a special nongovernment organization to take

(B) creating a special nongovernment organization that takes

(C) creating a special nongovernment organization for taking

(D) and create a special nongovernment organization for taking

(E) and create a special nongovernment organization to take

Parallelism + Grammatical construction

This sentence contains a list of three elements, all of which should be parallel. The last element should be preceded by the conjunction and. In this sentence, the last element must be made parallel to the previous two: (1) to revamp computer security procedures, (2) institute new emergency response teams, and (3) create a special nongovernment organization to take charge of computer security planning. Omitting and causes the reader to anticipate still another element in the series when there is none. Using the participle creating not only violates parallelism but also causes misreading since the participial phrase could modify the first part of the sentence. To does not need to be repeated with institute and create because it is understood.

A     Creating is not parallel to to revamp and (to understood) institute, and is needed in this series

B      Creating violates the parallelism of the previous two elements; and is needed in this series; since the organization does not yet exist, that takes is illogical　　请问，应该用什么时态呢？

C     Creating is not parallel to to revamp and (to understood) institute, and is needed in this series; to has the sense of in order to, but for taking is neither precise nor idiomatic.

D     In the construction create to take, the sense of to is in order to; for taking is not idiomatically correct

E      Correct. The three elements in the series are parallel in this sentence, and the last is preceded by and.

The correct answer is E.

[此贴子已经被作者于2008-7-20 13:42:15编辑过]

young729

这里不是时态的错误吧？是逻辑上的错误。

gracie495824

多谢LS～那么应该怎么修改才合适呢？

young729

我觉得是这样的，revamp、institute以及create从逻辑上看是并列的，都是revamp前面那个to的目的，所以creating是肯定不对的，没有与前面两个动词平行。而如果向B选项那样organization that takes的话，that就近解释organization，而实际上take charge of是以上三个动词的目的，所以不能用that，会造成歧义。

gracie495824

我认为to take charge of computer security planning仅仅表creat...的目的。

之所以要用不定式，可能就是逻辑上强调目的的需要吧。

ruru8ruru8

请教用
            for Ving （for taking）这和
            to take 在中文的翻译上有何不同呢？

疑惑…

rhine521

to do 表示目的 

by  表示以...方式

 

请拍砖

phyroc

that will take

takes意思是这个机构已经存在了