[建议]prep-1-165 我可以无视你么破题

piggyuu

165.
Due to poaching and increased cultivation in their native habitats, researchers have determined that there are fewer than 100 Arabian leopards left in the wild, and that these leopards are thus many times as rare as China's giant pandas.

(A) Due to poaching and increased cultivation in their native habitats, researchers have determined that there are fewer than 100 Arabian leopards left in the wild, and that these leopards are thus many times as rare as

(B) Due to poaching and increased cultivation in their native habitats, there are fewer than 100 Arabian leopards left in the wild, researchers have determined, making them many times more rare than

(C) There are fewer than 100 Arabian leopards left in the wild due to poaching and increased cultivation in their native habitats, researchers have determined, which makes the leopards many times more rare compared to

(D) Researchers have determined that, because of being poached and increased cultivation in their native habitats, there are fewer than 100 Arabian leopards left in the wild, thus making them many more times as rare as

(E) Researchers have determined that, because of poaching and increased cultivation in their
   native habitats, there are fewer than 100 Arabian leopards left in the wild, and that these leopards are thus many times more rare than(E)

 

做题的时候倒是没做错，首先A B用due to不能在句首排了(xdf原则之一)，C读到一半太不顺当了就不看了，D看到more as错，糊里糊涂选了E

回头仔细一分析E，问题就出来了：

首先那个their句意上是指leopards的，放在那太有指researchers的歧义了

然后就是那个倒霉的比较结构，prep笔记对此题解释的是"表达倍数用...times+more+adj+than, ...time as + adj + than都正确"……小晕了一下。。我实在是无法认同as...than对，那不是典型的精神错乱错误么。。姑且当错prep出错了。。问题还没完，然后再说这题E当中的...times more adj than，这种倍数表达方法也没见过，然后搜出前人找到的一道包含此处知识点的大全的题

大全764

The gyrfalcon, an Arctic bird of prey, has survived a close brush with extinction; its numbers are now five times greater than when the use of DDT was sharply restricted in the early 1970’s.

(A) extinction; its numbers are now five times greater than

(B) extinction; its numbers are now five times more than

(C) extinction, their numbers now fivefold what they were

(D) extinction, now with fivefold the numbers they had

(E) extinction, now with numbers five times greater than（A）

 

行啦，看来XX times more than 和 XX times adjer than 也是倍数的正确表达。。刚要高高兴兴的加入总结~突然发现要是比较级，prep-165也应该是many times rarer than啊，rare的比较级难道还用more rare？。。

于是我对此题彻底无奈了！我说gmac啊，你出这么一道不严谨的题让我们多么烦恼额，搜搜cd上的讨论，多少人浪费了多少脑细胞在这道题上呢，浪费了精力不说，还搅乱了我们好不容易总结出来的规律。。╮(╯▽╰)╭感觉被G玩的团团转，我就是发发牢骚。。

 

附白勇里的知识点：

 

倍数的表达：

  1）twice用法

Twice as many …. as ; twice as much … as ; twice+ the + n ; twice+ what从句

  2）用动词表达倍数double，triple，quadruple，quintuple

  3）… times + as + 形容词或副词 + as…

  4）sb be +百分数+more likely to do sth than to do sth

[此贴子已经被作者于2009/10/28 23:28:19编辑过]

xinjiaruc

Due to由于各英语国家语言习惯的相互影响,现在已经是可以放在句首的了.严格来说已经不算是语法错误了.

piggyuu

以下是引用xinjiaruc在2009/10/29 12:08:00的发言：
Due to由于各英语国家语言习惯的相互影响,现在已经是可以放在句首的了.严格来说已经不算是语法错误了.

嗯，其实用这个法则也心虚的类，但是貌似在gmat语法题当中，due to在句首没对过呢。所以把它当做相对性错误吧！