还有几天考试，求助一道GWD，觉得答案有误！以前讨论未果。

katrinaxy520

GWD-12-Q19:

Heavy commitment by an executive to a course of action, especially if it has worked well in the past, makes it likely to miss signs of incipient trouble or misinterpret them when they do appear.

 

A.      Heavy commitment by an executive to a course of action, especially if it has worked well in the past, makes it likely to miss signs of incipient trouble or misinterpret them when they do appear.

B.       An executive who is heavily committed to a course of action, especially one that worked well in the past, makes missing signs of incipient trouble or misinterpreting ones likely when they do appear.

C.      An executive who is heavily committed to a course of action is likely to miss or misinterpret signs of incipient trouble when they do appear, especially if it has worked well in the past.

D.      Executives’ being heavily committed to a course of action, especially if it has worked well in the past, makes them likely to miss signs of incipient trouble or misinterpreting them when they do appear.

Being heavily committed to a course of action, especially one that has worked well in the past, is likely to make an executive miss signs of incipient trouble or misinterpret them when they do appear.

答案选C，可是我觉得it 指代不明，这应该是GMAT最忌讳的错误啊！我觉得E更好。

期待NN的解释！

katrinaxy520

GWD-12-Q31:

Emily Dickinson’s letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, outnumbering her letters to anyone else.

 

A.      Dickinson were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, outnumbering

B.       Dickinson were written over a period that begins a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and ended shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, outnumber

C.      Dickinson, written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and that ends shortly before Emily’s death in 1886 and outnumbering

D.      Dickinson, which were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother, ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, and outnumbering

E.       Dickinson, which were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, outnumber

这个答案选E，我觉得WHICH的指代有问题啊，跨的也太远了吧。我觉得应该选A。

希望NN能给点解释！！！

AlienX

Not a NN.
GWD-12-Q19個人傾向E, 想法跟LZ一樣
GWD-12-Q31 E的which修letters是沒有問題, 因為which之前是一個proper noun(專有名詞).  我做題時也是選A.  可是有一個NN說主句用了被動, 最好不用verb-ing來作隨伴(結果).  可是E中的Emily Dickinson’s letters outnumber....好像有點奇怪...

shakepig

being 出现也是很忌讳的啊

shakepig

31，outnumbering,伴随状态感觉很怪。。前面是说一段时间，就一直伴随？？

dominik

which 后边有个were，就不存在修饰歧义了，e好点，a肯定没什么语法错误的，就是意思感觉怪怪的

katrinaxy520

Simply because they are genetically engineered does not make it any more likely for plants to become an invasive or persistent weed, according to a decade-long study published in the journal Nature.

 

 

(A) because they are genetically engineered does not make it any more likely for plants to

(B) because it is genetically engineered does not make a plant any more likely to

(C) being genetically engineered does not make it any more likely that plants will

(D) being genetically engineered does not make a plant any more likely to

(E) being genetically engineered does not make a plant any more likely that it will

这是PREP上的一道题，BEING的用法和上面的很像啊。像这种情况我还真不知道哪个答案优一些。。。好迷惑啊。。。

这是PREP上的一道题，BEING的用法和上面的很像啊。像这种情况我还真不知道哪个答案优一些。。。好迷惑啊。。。

katrinaxy520

关于第二题，也只能理解OUTNUMBERING 这个伴随用的不好了。。。当时想都没想就选了A，因为觉得E的WHICH修饰不当。现在看到E，表达很简洁的，就是WHICH 看不顺眼。。。

PREP上解释说：伴随副词出项的几个条件：一个主语发出两个动作，或者一个主语处于两种状态。或者一个主语发出一个动作时又伴随着某一种状态。

并且，伴随副词与主语动词所表示的动作是同时发生的。

katrinaxy520

想起以前讨论过的帖子，说到ONE这个同位语指代不明。现在想想确实是。它既可以指前面这个句子：Being heavily committed to a course of action，也可以单独指a course of action。这就造成了歧义。在句子中的意思，应该是要指a course of action。