GWD28-Q12 rob ... of sb's flavor

hughlv

12. GWD28-Q12:

Over the next few years, increasing demands on the Chattahoochee
            River, which flows into the Apalachicola
            River, could alter the saline content of Apalachicola
                Bay, which would rob the oysters there of their flavor, and to make them decrease in size, less distinctive, and less in demand.

A.    which would rob the oysters there of their flavor, and to make them decrease in size

B.    and it would rob the oysters there of their flavor, make them smaller

C.    and rob the oysters there of their flavor, making them decrease in size

D.    robbing the oysters there of their flavor and making them smaller

E.     robbing the oysters there of their flavor, and making them decrease in size

答案是D。请问选项C有什么问题呢？没看明白他和saline content到底影响的是oysters还是"them"。

原文出处在这里：http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/15/us/an-oyster-and-a-way-of-life-both-at-risk.html?pagewanted=all。但看了以后还是不太确定句子的含义。

请nn们指教。

ogram

rob修饰的应该是increasing demands on the Chattahoochee
        River could alter the saline content of Apalachicola
        Bay这件事,或者更确切地说是修饰alter这个动词

而c中rob修饰的却是increasing demands 这个主语,所以不对.

GMAT语法中,which一般只能修饰名词性的成分而不修饰整个句子或整件事.

伊布拉莫维琨

hughlv

以下是引用ogram在2009/7/21 21:05:00的发言：

rob修饰的应该是increasing demands on the Chattahoochee
  River could alter the saline content of Apalachicola
  Bay这件事,或者更确切地说是修饰alter这个动词

而c中rob修饰的却是increasing demands 这个主语,所以不对.

GMAT语法中,which一般只能修饰名词性的成分而不修饰整个句子或整件事.

谢谢ogram！再分析了一下，从语义上C不通。对于Chattahoochee River的用水量增加，导致了其下游的Apalachicola Bay的含盐量改变，含盐量的变化进而产生对Oysters的影响（口味改变，尺寸变小，不再独特，从而导致需求降低）。这样子and所代表的并列关系就不成立了。

whismanc

thx

scarlett88

up

pwss

斯咏

看不出逻辑上的伴随关系

liuxiaqi1988

这主要是考察了平行结构吧，and rob不能和前面的结构平行。一看到and 就要想到平行

oranrona

D中的decrease in size是不是错啊？~