TT-GWD2-34，我有不同意见

rorarora

Q6 :TT-GWD 2-34.

NASA’s methodical approach to the exploration of Mars has not yet answered the questions of whether biological life forms ever emerged on Mars and whether, presuming such life forms having left fossil traces to begin with, those traces can still exist in some moist recesses of the cold and arid planet.

A.      and whether, presuming such life forms having left fossil traces to begin with, those traces can

B.      and whether, if it is presumed that such life forms left some fossil traces to begin with, can those traces

C.      and whether, presuming such life forms left fossil traces to begin with, those traces

D.     and, presuming such life forms did leave some fossil traces to begin with, if they can

E.      and, presuming such life forms to have left fossil traces to begin with, if they

 

答案选C

有些人说是A

但是本人觉得应该选B, 原因如下：

1）whether and ..whether 并列，排除D， E

2）A和C的presuming都没有逻辑主语, those traces不能作为presume的逻辑主语

3)  presume that....或presume sth. to be done....，A和C中 presume 后面显然跟的是从句，而不是分词

B的缺点在于can those traces....; 但好像不是严格的错误？？

brass20y

熊猫不是不用再考了?怎么还在这里?

我来说一下,今天刚做这题

我也是在BC中选择,最后倒向c

我认为c这样理解会更好:presuming的逻辑主语是approach可能就说得通了

b我觉得有两点不妥,1是can those traces,这里是倒装?有点牵强,没有任何理由和证据说倒装;2是can,我觉得逻辑意思是"是否仍存在",而不是"是否仍能存在"

rorarora

Reference:

[transitive]to think that something is true, although you are not certain
synonym assume

Each of you will make a speech, I presume?'Are his parents still alive?' 'I presume so .'
presume that
I presume we'll be there by six o'clock.

presume somebody/something to be somebody/something

From the way he talked, I presumed him to be your boss.

be presumed to do something
The temple is presumed to date from the first century BC.

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rorarora

根据以上presume的特点，我不知道an approach 怎么能think???

汗一下....

你还挺快.....

俺不是已经大大声的宣布要再战了么？？？

这个ID太出名了....我应该用我隐性埋名，低调做人的那个就好了......

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rorarora

刚才查了一下BY,

赫然写着："宾语从句用陈述语序....."

这题....让我很无语.....

brass20y

presume这里是省略了that

其次,approach不能presume,我理解是陈述下条件吧,画外音说的,^_^

宾语从句用陈述语气,这个好像没逻辑,不是考点吧,这里我只是觉得没有必要使用"能"或"能够"表示能力

brass20y

我后天上考场

GWD SC还是要错好几个,错2,3,4都有,偶尔争议题多就错5,6个

看来是不如你看得仔细啊!

你啥时候二战?

dingxiang

从排除法来看，也只有C了

先撇开楼主讲的presuming的问题（其实从考试技巧的角度考虑， 4个选项都用了 presuming， 几乎就可以确定B的用法是错了）

A：我觉得can的用法不恰当， 似乎这里不是在说可能性的问题，而是说those traces是否现在还存在。

B： 语序，没有必要倒装； it is presumned 罗嗦

看来也只有C了。

最让我疑惑的是Presuming的用法，

我感觉这里的presuming类似于插入语（可以把它看作如including那样，不用考虑逻辑主语），是从作者的口吻出发的，所以是作者的presume（不确定，我自己猜的）

GWD RC里面的一句（所有的GMAT资料只找到这么一句 ）：

.  AFL president Samuel Gompers, presuming to speak for all workers, had positioned the AFL as a leading opponent of the proposals for national health insurance that were advocated beginning in 1915 by the American Association for Labor Legislation (AALL), an organization dedicated to the study and reform of labor laws. 

dhdlorent

haha, how do you know i am on-line???

actually, it is rather easy to exclude B, that is a basic grammar mistake you knew in high school.

in the suboridinate clause of english, the verb should stay behind the subject right?

so, it should be,

*** not answered the questions of whether forms merged..... and whether those traces still exsit........

"the question whether can those those..... "is obviously wrong. 

dingxiang

晕

梦缘版的 都来了

熊猫到底是熊猫