两道题 看了答案觉得没法说服自己 求人帮忙通俗化解释

magicinair

1. Temporary-employment agencies benefit not only from the increasing demand for clerical workers but also the higher profits made when highly paid professionals are placed, requests for whom have increased in the recent wave of corporate takeovers.             157 26

(A) the higher profits made when highly paid professionals are placed, requests for whom
(B) the higher profitsthat are made in the placement of highly paid professionals, requests for whom
(C) from the requests for highly paid professionals, who make higher profits for the agencies when placed and whose requests
(D) from highly paid professionals, whose placement makes higher profits for the agencies and whose requests.
(E) from the higher profits made in placing highly paid professionals, requests for whom

我选C觉得CDE语法上都没有什么问题，但是答案是E

2. Scientists have recently discovered what could be the largest and oldest living organism on Earth, a giant fungus that is an interwoven filigree of mushrooms and rootlike tentacles spawned by a single fertilized spore some 10,000 years ago and extending for more than 30 acres in the soil of a Michigan forest.                   180 61
(A) extending
(B) extends
(C) extended
(D) it extended
(E) is extending

我选C 正确答案是A

fylonglong

对于第一题，LZ过分强调了语法的正确性而忽略了意思的保持。not only前面后面是increasing demand ，but also后面的 higher profits 与之对应。而C,D选项中将其换为request以及highly paid professionals，改变了原句的意思。另外将后面的同位语从句结构也破坏了。
对于第二题LZ犯了同样的毛病。认为前面是过去分词spawned,后面要用extended来保持平行结构。但是现在分词可以与过于分词对称，这要看句子的具体意思。 a giant fungus 这个东西是被 a single fertilized spore 产下来的。但是是主动去extending  for more than 30 acres in the soil of a Michigan forest.理解了意思及各部分之间的关系才能做对喔。

jtrchina

#1:As the GMAC becomes more and more cleaver,the meaning  the sentence represents weights as important as the gramar correctness.Futher more,(C) and (D) is not idiomatic because the idiom of request is:request for sth,suggesting that sth is needed or somebody demonds it.
In this sentence,it is the request for highly paid professionals that profits the institution.

#2:Since "and" suggests that there is a parallism between "spawned" and "extending" and since the creature is still alive,"expending"here is right.
The reason that kills choice(C) is that spawned can be seen as an abbreviation of "that was spawned" and "extending" can be seen as the same way of "that is extending...".Perfectly parallel,right?
If "extended" is used then it undoubtly suggests that the creature is being expended,the wrong use of a nagative tone.The creature expends by itself just as you grow up by your own,a positive tone used here.

Hope it helps!

lsssl

对于第一题，LZ过分强调了语法的正确性而忽略了意思的保持。not only前面后面是increasing demand ，but also后面的 higher profits 与之对应。而C,D选项中将其换为request以及highly paid professionals，改变了原句的意思。另外将后面的同位语从句结构也破坏了。
对于第二题LZ犯了同样的毛病。认为前面是过去分词spawned,后面要用extended来保持平行结构。但是现在分词可以与过于分词对称，这要看句子的具体意思。 a giant fungus 这个东西是被 a single fertilized spore 产下来的。但是是主动去extending  for more than 30 acres in the soil of a Michigan forest.理解了意思及各部分之间的关系才能做对喔。

-- by 会员 fylonglong (2010/4/25 22:10:53)

我觉得第二题里spawned修饰的是tentacles阿，后面那半个句子只有一个主语a giant fungus ，没有动词吧

fylonglong

恩。TX说的是。我是懒得打。因为前面那个东西that is后面的东西。。。我就把他俩当一个东西算了

redo

1. C&D, Whose request=professionals' request not "the request for professionas"