大全 Q234 请教

eshopaholic

1.       Declining values for farmequipment and land, the collateral against which farmers borrow to getthrough the harvest season, is going to force many lenders to tighten ordeny credit this spring.
(A) the collateralagainst which farmers borrow to get through the harvest season, is
(B) which farmersuse as collateral to borrow against to get through the harvest season, is
(C) the collateralwhich is borrowed against by farmers to get through the harvest season, is
(D) which farmersuse as collateral to borrow against to get through the harvest season, are（E）
(E) the collateralagainst which farmers borrow to get through the harvest season, are


答案E， 不太明白。collateral（抵押物）对应 value ？
请高手，详细解释下。 谢谢。 我选了D

luopite

D中的which指代不清的，指代equipment and land还是declining values?
the collateral就是指代farm equipment and land，农民在收获的季节用来抵押使用的，可以是农用设备和农田吧。which就是农民借的东西，具体什么不知道，farm equipment and land是用来抵押这些借来的东西的。

sunshengkun666

我觉得应该是这样，gmat中的代词which /that遵循严格的就近指代，在本题中则指代land，则丢掉了前面的equipment

luopite

我觉得应该是这样，gmat中的代词which /that遵循严格的就近指代，在本题中则指代land，则丢掉了前面的equipment

-- by 会员 sunshengkun666 (2010/10/1 17:47:01)

that和which都是可以跳跃指代的。这里感觉land and equipment是一个整体，但是说which仅仅指代land，好像也没有问题。
所以说which是指代不清的。

Duro

(D) which farmersuse as collateral to borrow against to get through the harvest season, are
调整语序，farmers use which as collateral to borrow to against? get through...
against找谁去呢，可见根本不对

eshopaholic

borrow money against my car as collateral

D选项，borrow 及物动词，缺少对象，所以错。

但做题的时候，觉得选E的话，就是一个同位语了，collateral 和 value 是不同的东西，所以逻辑错了。