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JTT

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冰川

The single-family house constructed by the Yana, a Native American people who lived in what is now northern California, was conical in shape, its framework of poles overlaid with slabs of bark, either cedar or pine, and banked with dirt to a height of three to four feet.

 独立主格成分：its framework of poles overlaid with slabs of bark, either cedar or pine, and banked with dirt to a height of three to four feet.

主语+ -ed +介词短语。 在这里，and 是连接两个-ed 动词并列，每个-ed动词又分别带了一个with 介词短语， 把插入语"either cedar or pine" 去掉就看的很清楚了。

hongyalin

那为什么要用to a hight of 而不是as high as that of? 是不是因为that的原因？

Gothicly

以下是引用aeoluseros在2009-7-4 2:37:00的发言：
恩，这道题目从逻辑上对于我们没有专业背景的人来讲很难判断was banked(D选项)跟was concial平行还是banked与overlaid平行.但是可以把选项narrow到A和D之间，以前做过的题目如果后面是跟数字一般来讲还是用to a height of这样的形式，或许这是gmat出题的一个惯例吧，如果不是比较就不用比较，这样比较“中性”.
ps,补充张图片这种single-family的图片：
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aeoluseros太牛了,还有图片说明哦!

-- by 会员 vivian0331 (2009/7/7 16:02:00)

甚强大……

wwhappy

发表于: 2010-02-09 11:40:06 - IP:*.*.*.* 只看该用户 大 中 小 #13
那为什么要用to a hight of 而不是as high as that of? 是不是因为that的原因？

同问！

fansail

from Manhattangmat:
First, there's the "as high as" problem. You don't use a construction like that unless you're:
(a) giving some sort of limitation on the height of something, and/or
(b) trying to emphasize the extreme height of something.
During the turbulent fall season, Lake Superior can have waves as high as 18 feet.
--> this is an appropriate usage. 18 feet is extremely high for a wave on a lake (!), so "as high as" makes sense here.
Also, we're saying that 18 feet is an upper bound.
Since this problem is doing neither of these, "to a height of" is better.

drummer

just an example based on fansail's explaination:  

AD之争 --- a height of 与as high as的区别
'as high as' should be followed by one value, not a range.

some of our players weigh as much as 300-325 pounds --> bad phrasing
some of our players weigh as much as 325 pounds --> good phrasing

http://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/gmat-prep-sc-single-family-house-t1827.html

daivx

独立主格并列了，我感觉最近ETS出的语法题越来越阴险了，不停留多几秒钟很容易上当

angela7258

The single-family house constructed by the Yana, a Native American people who lived in what is now northern California, was conical in shape, its framework of poles overlaid with slabs of bark, either cedar or pine, and banked with dirt to a height of three to four feet.
我个人认为，banked应该是跟overlaid平衡对称。因为主句中谓语动词was后边是形容词 conical，是说这个房子是圆锥形状，划线部分banked（把……堆积起来）是个过去分词，形容词跟分词不能构成完美的平行对称关系的。而banked与过去分词overlaid在字义和语法形式上都对称，可以构成标准的平行对称结构。不知我讲得清楚否？

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-- by 会员 wittyhunter (2009/7/7 3:28:00)

同意这个分析， 如果把句子翻译过来就很明显了
现在的北加州生活的美洲土著人的单户住宅由yana筑成，是在圆锥形的形状，它的框架由树皮覆盖的搭成，或是雪松或是松木板，并用泥土堆积到一个三到四英尺的高度。

如果没有一点想象力还挺难答对的... 我纠结了好长时间这个句子结构。