Congress is debating a bill requiring certain employers provide workers with unpaid leave so as to care for sick or newborn children.B (A) provide workers with unpaid leave so as to (B) to provide workers with unpaid leave so as to (C) provide workers with unpaid leave in order that they (D) to provide workers with unpaid leave so that they can(D) (E) provide workers with unpaid leave and
Choices A, C, and E are ungrammatical because, in this context, requiring ... employers must be followed by an infinitive. These options display additional faults: in A, so as to fails to specify that the workers receiving the leave will be the people caring for the infants and children; in order that they, as used in C, is imprecise and unidiomatic; and E says that the bill being debated would require the employers themselves to care for the children. Choice B offers the correct infinitive, to provide, but contains the faulty so as to. Choice D is best.
对于so as to的解释是so as to fails to specify that the workers receiving the leave will be the people caring for the infants and children
朗文字典里面对so as to的解释是=in order to。所以我个人不信服所谓“so as to 在gmat里面是必错”。在这题里面只能说用了so as to之后 整个句子淡化了workers,变成整个bill的目的是caring for the infants and childeren.