OG10-70

fishlibai

70. A President entering the final two years of a second term is likely to be at a severe disadvantage and is often unable to carry out a legislative program.
   

(A) likely to be at a severe disadvantage and is often unable to
   (B) likely severely disadvantaged and often unable to
   (C)  liable to be severely disadvantaged and cannot often

(D) liable that he or she is at a severe disadvantage
   and cannot often

(E) at a severe disadvantage, often likely to be unable
   that he or she can
   

Choice A is best. Choice B lacks the necessary infinitive after likely.
   In B and C, disadvantaged, which often means "hampered by substandard economic and social conditions," is less precise than at a disadvantage.
   In C and D, cannot often carry out
   suggests that a President with limited time suffers only from an inability to achieve legislative goals frequently, not from a frequent inability to achieve them at all. In C, liable, followed by an infinitive, can legitimately be used to express probability with a bad outcome, but C is otherwise flawed as noted. D's liable and E's unable should be followed by an infinitive rather than by a relative clause beginning with that.

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不明白b选项错误在哪里？Choice B lacks the necessary infinitive after likely这个怎么理解？

A President ... is likely severely disadvantaged and often unable to
    carry out a legislative program.
   

is likely severely disadvantaged and (is) often unable to ...

is disadvantaged, likely severely修饰disadvantaged ，排除disadvantaged 意思可能不对，我不懂为什么这里likely 要用to ...呢？

请教nn我的理解错在哪里？

[此贴子已经被作者于2009/8/5 1:29:52编辑过]

fishlibai

咋没人理我呢？

Raymond_GMAT

非NN

(B) likely severely disadvantaged and often unable to 有两个地方错

1.likely to do/be是固定搭配，likely是形容词放在这里做什么成分呢？并不能修饰后面的severely disadvantaged

2.and is often unable to 这个is不能省，is在做实意动词的时候不能省（见BY语法）

fishlibai

以下是引用Raymond_GMAT在2009/8/5 5:59:00的发言：

非NN

(B) likely severely disadvantaged and often unable to 有两个地方错

1.likely to do/be是固定搭配，likely是形容词放在这里做什么成分呢？并不能修饰后面的severely disadvantaged

2.and is often unable to 这个is不能省，is在做实意动词的时候不能省（见BY语法）

likely 也可以当副词的，I'd very likely have done the same thing in your situation.朗文上的例句
可以修饰形容词disadvantaged 啊。

is为什么不能省呢？og里面有很多省略的例子啊，只要不影响意思理解的话。你看这句话对不对 he is a teacher and a friend of mine.

dongsoong

Hello,

The reason why the second "is" cannot be missed is as the following:
... is likely to be at a severe disadvantage and often unable to carry...  can make us understand that "at a severe disadvantage and often unable to..."  are parallel, which is not true . "is likely to " indicates posiibilities , but " is often unable to"  convey things surely.
 

随Sui

B改变句意了，disadvantaged, which often means "hampered by substandard economic and social conditions" 与原句中的disadvantage意思不一样。