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yanhuang2

112.        An unusually strong cyclist can, it is hoped, provide enough power to set a new distance record for human-powered aircraft in MIT’s diaphanous construction of graphite fiber and plastic.

(A) can, it is hoped, provide enough power to set

(B) it is hoped, can provide enough power that will set

(C) hopefully can provide enough power, this will set

(D) is hopeful to set

(E) hopes setting

答案是A，不知道这里it is hoped是什么成分？解释上说D E改变了原意，是不是因为这里讲的是有足够的power，而不是说那个人是不是有希望？

另外，sb is hopeful是否成立呢？牛津上hopeful的用法如下

1.be hopeful about the future 对未来充满希望
I feel hopeful of success/that we shall succeed. 我对成功[我们将获得成功]抱有希望.  
 2.(of a sign, situation, etc) giving hope; likely to be favourable or successful; promising （指徵兆、 情况等）有希望的, 顺利的, 有前途的: 
The future does not seem very hopeful. 前途似乎有点不妙. 

请牛人指点

[此贴子已经被作者于2008-7-21 20:44:47编辑过]

我爱周末

顶!

singdeath

这里不是说cyclist有没有希望set record，是说别人希望他能set record

georgetseng

it is hoped：人们希望；
hopeful/hopefully: 对...乐观
两者的意思是不一样的，虽然差别微妙。
1) Hopefully, he will make the right decision： 对他能做正确的决定表示乐观； 2) He will, it is hoped, make the right decision： 希望他能做正确的决定。
在口语或非正式用法中，hopeful/hopefully经常被用来代替it is hoped； 但在正式(和GMAT）用法，这是错的：American Heritage of English Usage有对hopeful vs. it is hoped的详细讨论（见最后）。
在GMAT中，一旦有it is hoped和hopefully的比较，hopefully肯定是错的。

Hopefully as
sentence adverb.  If you
use hopefully as a sentence adverb (as in Hopefully, he measures will be
adopted), be aware that many people find the usage unacceptable, including
a large majority of the Usage Panel. It is not easy to explain why people
dislike this use of hopefully. The use is justified by similar uses of many
other adverbs: Mercifully, the play was brief. Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a
damn. And though this use of hopefully may have been a vogue word when it first
became frequent 30 years ago, it has long since lost any hint of jargon or
pretentiousness for the general reader. The wide acceptance of the usage
reflects popular recognition of its usefulness; there is no precise substitute.
Someone who says Hopefully, the treaty
will be ratified makes a hopeful prediction about the fate of the treaty,
whereas someone who says I hope (or We hope or It is hoped) the treaty will be
ratified expresses a bald statement about what is desired. Only the latter
could be continued with a clause such as but it isn’t likely
    

 Continued
objections against hopefully.  You
might expect that people would have warmed to hopefully once the usage became
well established. But instead they appear to have become more adamant in their
opposition. In the 1968 Usage Panel survey, 44 percent of the panel
approved the usage, but this dropped to 27 percent in our 1986 survey. There is
plenty of evidence to suggest that the panel of the mid-1980s was less
conservative than the panel of the 1960s, since it accepted once-condemned
usages such as the employment of contact and host as verbs. And 60 percent of
that same panel in the 1986 survey accepted the comparable use of mercifully in
the sentence Mercifully, the game ended before the Giants could add another
to the lopsided score. It is not the use of hopefully as a sentence
adverb per se that bothers the panel. Rather, hopefully seems to have taken on
a life of its own as a shibboleth.          

    

 Ambiguity of
sentence adverbs.  Like other sentence adverbs such as bluntly
and happily, hopefully may occasionally be ambiguous. In the sentence
Hopefully, the company has launched a new venture, you could construe the word
hopefully as describing the point of view of either the speaker or the company.
You can resolve such ambiguities either by repositioning the adverb (The
company has launched the new venture hopefully) or by choosing a paraphrase (We
hope that the company has launched the new venture).

    

lcy19812000

想问一下，A和B中插入语的位置有没有什么讲究？都可以么？

lovestudy

补充个人的理解。这个题目的本意并不是说cyclist去set a ..record，而是说cyclist能够为set a ..recore提供足够的能源。D并没有这个意思。这里，也许还可以考虑一个情态动词不要轻易省略的语法规则(虽然未必总是适用)。

[此贴子已经被作者于2009-4-5 11:23:12编辑过]

atgdf

!!!!!!!!!!!