[求助]OG12-SC-103 & 102？

deityc

我觉得这两道题迷惑人的都是 什么时候用 where 作为先行词引到从句，就像102-C 和 103-A  全部用了 where 导致本应为从句主语的Clans 和 society变成了地点状语，所以作者不得不在每个选项的where 后面凭空增加了 they ，只能分别指代了A人 和 Wasps。造成了改变原意。

geniealice

OG12-SC-103:    

Yellow jackets number among the 900 or so species of the world’s social wasps, wasps living in a highly cooperative and organized society where they consist almost entirely of females—the queen and her sterile female workers.
A.wasps living in a highly cooperative and organized society where they consist almost entirely of
B.wasps that live in a highly cooperative and organized society consisting almost entirely of
C.which means they live in a highly cooperative and organized society, almost all
D.which means that their society is highly cooperative, organized, and it is almost entirely
E.living in a society that is highly cooperative, organized, and it consists of almost all

答案B。

请教大家：

1，B: “consisting of..”修饰的是social wasps，还是society？ 我觉得是society. otherwise it really awkawd to to say "social wasps consist of...."

2, A: if i change "society where they consist of" to "society that consists of", is this correct now?

3, E: if i change "society that is..... and it consists of..." tp "society that is... and consists", is this correct now?



OG12-SC-102:

As rainfall began to decrease in the Southwest about the middle of the twelfth century,most of the Monument Valley Anasazi abandoned their homes to join other clans whose access to water was less limited.
A.whose access to water was less limited
B.where there was access to water that was less limited
C.where they had less limited water access
D.with less limitations on water access
E.having less limitations to water access

答案是A.

请问：for D, OG 解释说 less 不能修饰limitations, 但是webster上说little 是可以修饰可数名词的，只是不那么常用罢了。请问这个答案怎么理解。如果改成“with fewer limitations on water access” 就对了么？ also i understant "access to water" is better and clearer than "water access".
Thank you.

-- by 会员 running2k (2009/11/23 4:18:58)

同问~~~

ainiAnnie

郁闷牛人怎么都不出山呢？

-- by 会员 running2k (2009/11/28 9:25:35)

我正好也刚刚看到这一题，2楼说的103题理解答案的不同点，我觉得很对啦。

不过我是这么理解这个句子的，consisting修饰society，和cooperative/organized平行，consisting现在分词短语放在society的后面，应该可以看做是一个定语从句，在薄冰语法里说因为现在分词短语比定语从句简洁，所以在笔语当中多用现在分词置于所修饰的名词之后。同样和前面的cooperative,organized两个形容词的语法功能是一样的，所以根据GMAT的要求，一定要平行。

而且还有一点是，如果把这个consisting这个修饰成分提到society前面，就一定要和cooperative/organized平行，因为这三个词都是修饰society的，可是如果把这个分词短语提前的话就会造成修饰语过长，引起歧义了。所以放在society的后面。

嗯，这个就是我的理解，不知道是不是帮到你。如果有NN看到，我的解释不对的话，请指正！！！谢谢！

-- by 会员 zylrt (2009/12/6 15:15:59)

我觉得你的解释很好，可是 cooperative、organized和consisting 怎么平行呢？？觉得不平行啊...