prep1-109 又是并列

nemo11

109.      (30353-!-item-!-188;#058&004189)

 

The discovery of glass being expandable and able to be shaped by human breath revolutionized glassworking to such an extent that today "glassblowing" has become the generic term for all glassworking, whether the glass is blown or formed by other techniques.

 

(A) of glass being expandable and able to be

(B) of glass that is capable of expansion and

(C) of glass being capable of expansion and that it can be

(D) that glass can be expanded and it is able to be

(E) that glass can be expanded and

PREP解释说D and it is able to be 只能跟主句并列怎么理解阿？

easttiger

没看懂你的意思。

答案是E吗?

D应该属于既wordy又ungrammatical吧，and 后面少了that导致前后unparallel。另外can 和 be able to应该是完全相同的意思，完全可以写成E的形式。

A属于awkward, 而且being后面的由and连接的两个形容词unparallel

B的that是restrictive, 这样一来整句话变成发现一种特别的玻璃了。

C和A错的差不多。

[此贴子已经被作者于2008-8-7 6:46:14编辑过]

nemo11

答案是E。

但是prep对D的解释说因为and it is able to be 只能跟主句并列， 而不是和glass can be expanded 并列。怎么能看出来是跟主句并列阿？

easttiger

其实是因为and后面少了一个that,导致主语violate parallelism.

游吟者

请问E为什么不会有歧义吗
我觉得按E的话XX can be expanded and shaped by human breath
就搞不清是只有shaped是by human breath呢，还是expanded和shaped都by human breath?

游吟者

up~~~

哦买嘎

D中光凭一个 ..is able to be shaped.. 就可以被秒掉了， GMAT中 be able to 后不能跟被动