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viviansecret

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        According to a recent poll, owning and living in a freestanding house on its own land is still a goal of a majority of young adults, like that of earlier generations.

(A) like that of earlier generations

(B) as that for earlier generations

(C) just as earlier generations did

(D) as have earlier generations

(E) as it was of earlier generations

答案:E.我也觉得应该选E.但是我不清楚的有两点:

1)前面的on its own land中its指代什么呢?实在搞不懂...而且句子后半部分E选项中的it是指代owing and living in a freestanding house in its own land这一串儿的,两个it指代不同.难道,在一个句子里面,相同代词其实是可以指代不同事物的吗?难道,这在GMAT官方看来不是一个硬伤?

2)而且偶还有一个问题就是,E选项中的it是否可以换成that?在类似的对比结构中,究竟什么时候用it来代替前文相同成分,又有哪些时候应该用that来指代呢?我之前的理解是用that可以指代相同的概念,但不一定exactly就是前面那个,而如果用it的话就是exactly前面出现的那个名词了,用it似乎要狭隘的多.这个可以参考以下一道题:

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  Because the Earth’s crust is more solid there and thus better able to transmit shock waves, an earthquake of a given magnitude typically devastates an area 100 times greater in the eastern United States than it does in the West.

(A) of a given magnitude typically devastates an area 100 times greater in the eastern United States than it does in the West

(B) of a given magnitude will typically devastate 100 times the area if it occurs in the eastern United States instead of the West

(C) will typically devastate 100 times the area in the eastern United States than one of the comparable magnitude occurring in the West

(D) in the eastern United States will typically devastate an area 100 times greater than will a quake of comparable magnitude occurring in the West

(E) that occurs in the eastern United States will typically devastate 100 times more area than if it occurred with comparable magnitude in the West

答案.

不知我如此对it和that指代的区别理解是否正确呢？或者，有什么更根本的区别和原则呢？请多多指教：）

(A) of a given magnitude typically devastates an area 100 times greater in the eastern United States than it does in the West

(B) of a given magnitude will typically devastate 100 times the area if it occurs in the eastern United States instead of the West

(C) will typically devastate 100 times the area in the eastern United States than one of the comparable magnitude occurring in the West

(D) in the eastern United States will typically devastate an area 100 times greater than will a quake of comparable magnitude occurring in the West

(E) that occurs in the eastern United States will typically devastate 100 times more area than if it occurred with comparable magnitude in the West

答案.

不知我如此对it和that指代的区别理解是否正确呢？或者，有什么更根本的区别和原则呢？请多多指教：）

[此贴子已经被作者于2009/8/20 6:45:43编辑过]

popoooboy

我个人觉得用it要比that小心，it无论从逻辑还是语法上都必须指指代的那个具体事物，而that感觉指代相同类别、相同名字的事物，而逻辑上是两个东西，特别是在比较中。比如你举的地震那题。

类似的还有一道题（具体忘了）：in 1900 A represented 百分之多少of N, and 百分之多少 in 1920. 这种说法我觉得就是没有逻辑的。正确答案也是改为 in 1900 A represented 百分之多少of N ；the figure was 百分之多少 in 1920. 用了新名词取代。

viviansecret

恩，我记得popoooboy你说的这种类型的题目。大家有没有其他的看法和建议呢？我其实对自己的理解不是很有把握，请多多指教哦：）