Research during the past several decades on the nature of language and the processes that produce and make it understandable has revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity.
T-9-Q27. 大全987-606 Research during the past several decades on the nature of language and the processes that produce and make it understandable has revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity. A. that produce and make it understandable has revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity B. of producing and understanding it have revealed not underlying simplicity but great complexity C. by which it is produced and understood has revealed not underlying simplicity but great complexity D. by which it is produced and understood have revealed great complexity rather than underlying simplicity E. by which one produces and understands it have revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity
答案选A,通过主谓一致可以排除BDE,但是我还是选成了C。。。。主要是我不太明白句子的意思,尤其是processes that produce and make it understandable这一句it指代什么,句子的意思又是什么呢?有哪位好心能再提点一下还有什么办法能在不太明白句意时用排除选对呢? 谢谢帮忙!~~~
LZ,it指代language,这里C的问题有两个,1是放着that不用非要用by which这样一下子就增加句子复杂程度了,2句尾用到的instead of我觉得不能随便乱换,not -but和instead of 还是有差别的。A中produce 和make并列 加宾语it,我觉得是可以的很简洁。
-- by 会员 tianehu (2010/2/24 18:20:03)
Research during the past several decades on the nature of language and the processes that produce and make it understandable has revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity.
很巧,我下午也在看这道题,你参考下。produce后面为毛没有 it 我也在纠结,要是明白讲给我听~
-- by 会员 iweoiweo (2010/2/24 20:20:31)
请GEMJ大侠将答案改成C。理由是: 1。同意GEMJ的质疑,produce要么没有宾语,要么宾语是it understandable,不合逻辑。主观地去“选择”宾语没有说服力。 2。by不仅当“被”还可当“通过”讲。同时,被动形式是可以没有by引导的动作的发出者的。 以上两条前面的帖子已有陈述,再加一条: A中,has revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity。underlying跟在介词of后,有作为underlie的现在分词的可能。 C中,has revealed not underlying simplicity but great complexity。not是副词,but是连词,对于连接成分不会造成语法功能上的混乱。
Research during the past several decades on the nature of language and the processes that produce and make it understandable has revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity.
这个the processes that其中的that也是指language吗?
另外,有两个and,我不太清楚哪个是主要的平行?。。。。。
谢谢了!!~
Lz,回答你的问题: 1、that 引导修饰process的从句,并非指代language 2、两个and,第一个是主要平行,并列nature 与 process,第二个是从句中的平行,并列两个动词produce and make.其实我真的认为produce后面没必要来个it,因为首先produce和 make在词义上就基本相近,动词用and做并列,后面加一个宾语是非常好的英语中的用法。 再解释一下C,确实太复杂了,而且which后面的it有指代不清的嫌疑,或者说离被指代的词language太远,不好直接理解。况且我觉得GMAT还是挺注重简洁原则的,除非简洁出了致命的语法错误,一般不会用选择复杂的选项。