prep2-9 比较

nemo11

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The Environmental Protection Agency frequently puts mandatory controls on toxic substances that present as little risk as one in a million chances to cause cancer.

 

(A) as little risk as one in a million chances to cause

(B) as little risk as one chance in a million of causing

(C) as little risk as one chance in a million that it will cause

(D) a risk as little as one chance in a million for causing

(E) a risk as little as one chance in a million for it to cause

这里as...as...是做比较吗？谁跟谁比呢？

waterblue01

参考了所有网络上的回答和Ron大神的答复，我更倾向于Ron的解释，为了能让大家减少疑惑，我在所有这个问题的帖子里面都做了同样的回复。

Prep07上面的解释前半部分是错误的，其实 one in a million chances 和 one chance in a million其实没啥区别，as little risk as 和 a risk as little as也都可以用。问题其实就是idiomatic usage 的问题——risk of doing 而不能是其他选项那样。
比如
as small a collection as three pirated albums has occasionally drawn the attention of the recording industry.
这里 'collection', 而不是'albums', 是 'has drawn'的主语，导致用has而非have。
原句等同于:
a collection as small as three pirated albums has occasionally drawn the attention of the recording industry.
（个人觉得 as small as three pirated albums 其实只是对于collection的修饰而非比较）

另外Ron大神也额外提到（和本题无关，纯属别人讨论问到chance的搭配，因为本题不是修饰chance），
尽管有 chance to do 的用法。但是在GMAT中，涉及数学概率问题的修饰都要用chance of doing。

------------------------以下为Ron大神原文，重点已提炼放在上面-----------------------------------

whoa, you guys are missing the main point here: the word whose idiomatic usage is being tested is risk, not chance.

this is a bit hard to see in this particular sentence, so here's an analogy (which i'm making up on the spot - not part of an official question):
as small a collection as three pirated albums has occasionally drawn the attention of the recording industry.
in this case, 'collection', not 'albums', is the subject of 'has drawn' (which can be inferred from the fact that 'has' is singular).
this is the case because this sentence is equivalent to the following rearranged version:
a collection as small as three pirated albums has occasionally drawn the attention of the recording industry.

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the same reasoning applies here; you're looking for idiomatic usage that agrees with 'risk', not 'chance'.

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the last poster is correct in one sense, which is that there are correct idiomatic usages of 'chance to'.
HOWEVER,
the last poster is incorrect in this particular scenario, because 'chance to' is NOT used when 'chance' refers to a mathematical probability (as it does in this context). in the case of mathematical probabilities, you can only use 'chance of'.
for instance, you can't say this treatment has a 70% chance to cure the disease; you have to say chance of curing.

lijiaxuan810823

D吧

nemo11

答案是B

cestmoilance

as adj. +n as

the first as is an adv.

if you use a risk as little as ..., the second conj. as should be followed by "that" (=a risk)

represent little risk

represent one chance in a million

combine two: represent as little risk as one chance in a million.

aeoluseros

B里面是risk和one chance in a million的比较。

modteen

问一下one chance in a million和one in a million chances是不是等效的？

smartsky11

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丸子宝宝

以下是引用modteen在2008-11-15 15:13:00的发言：
问一下one chance in a million和one in a million chances是不是等效的？

hyang08

不一样的吧

one in a million chances意为一百万个机会中的一个，在这里不对

enrique1313

risk of doing sth !

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