[讨论]一道真题

Across

pumpkin不知此题是否是考试真题？如果是，哪答案就可能是后来人自己给的，可信度不高。如果B真是ETS给的答案，哪只能说ETS越来越坏了，连mindfree都被蒙，何况我等。

偶也不是十分清楚题目的来历. 到底是不是100%ETS的真题, 没法说. 不过, 如果是真题的话, 答案肯定不是ETS给的. 就和原来JERRY拿来的题目差不多吧......

所以偶说大家批判继承吧.

精神在就是了.

偶还是喜欢E, 几个用法偶都引用了例证, 逻辑上面也是E最好.

B里面时态不好, 结构也不好, 头重脚轻的. 难受看着.

个人看法

大家指正

Across

以下是引用mindfree在2004-5-4 12:24:00的发言：

I choose E too. Two reasons for further discussion:

1. ...of (the) five million ... that ...

I think that if "that" is used, there must be a "the" before the noun.

这个偶也同意

stone_gmat

以下是引用LES在2004-5-4 16:12:00的发言：
jnlvo，真真厉害，马上学以致用！

不过偶觉得B的时态表达使逻辑更清晰。这里appeared并不是说某个时间点一下子出现。而是强调一个先后顺序。正如偶引用的OG32题：living creatures先出现，然后从出现这个时间点开始到现在的一段时间内逐渐灭绝了。即一定是先出现后灭绝。

I agree with LES's opinion. Choose B, still.

LES

以下是引用pumpkin在2004-5-3 0:30:00的发言：
Five hundred million different species of living creatures have appeared on Earth, nearly 99 percent of them vanishing.

A. Five hundred million different species of living creatures have appeared on Earth,nearly 99 percent of them vanishing.

B. Nearly 99 percent of five hundred million different species of living creatures that appeared on Earth have vanished.

C. Vanished are nearly 99 percent of the five hundred million different species of living creatures that appeared on Earth.

D. Of five hundred million different species of living creatures that have appeared on Earth, nearly 99 percent of them have vanished.

E. Of the five hundred million different species of living creatures that have appeared on Earth, nearly 99 percent have vanished.

碰到一个怪题目

参考答案下次说.

偶就是不能认同那个参考答案

大家给个判断, 给个理由吧

谢谢

"I choose E too. Two reasons for further discussion:

1. ...of (the) five million ... that ...

I think that if "that" is used, there must be a "the" before the noun.

2. The tense.

"appeared" refers to a particular time in the past. "have appeared" refers to a period of time. Therefore, "have appeared" matched the meaning of the sentence better. "

今天偶遇一句子与B选项惊人的相似，源自ETS出的TOEFL2002年8月的一篇阅读文章，虽然不能说该句子结构是最好的，但一定是语法正确的！所以应该可以解决Mindfree的上述两个疑问。现转贴全文如下，供大家参考。

  It is estimated that over 99 percent of all species that ever existed have become

extinct. What causes extinction? When a species is no longer adapted to a changed

environment, it may perish. The exact causes of a species’ death vary from situation

Line to situation. Rapid ecological change may render an environment hostile to a species.

(5)       For example, temperatures may change and a species may not be able to adapt. Food

Resources may be affected by environmental changes, which will then cause problems

For a species requiring these resources. Other species may become better adapted to an

Environment, resulting in competition and, ultimately, in the death of a species.

  The fossil record reveals that extinction has occurred throughout the history of Earth.

(10) Recent analyses have also revealed that on some occasions many species became extinct

    at the same time—a mass extinction. One of the best-known examples of mass extinction

    occurred 65 million years ago with the demise of dinosaurs and many other forms of life.

    Perhaps the largest mass extinction was the one that occurred 225 million years ago,

    When approximately 95 percent of all species died, Mass extinctions can be caused by

(15) a relatively rapid change in the environment and can be worsened by the close

    interrelationship of many species. If, for example, something were to happen to destroy

    much of the plankton in the oceans, then the oxygen content of Earth would drop,

    affection even organisms not living in the oceans. Such a change would probably lead to a mass extinction.

(20)     One interesting, and controversial, finding is that extinctions during the past 250

    Million years have tended to be more intense every 26 million years. This periodic

extinction might be due to intersection of the Earth’s orbit with a cloud of comets, but

this theory is purely speculative. Some researchers have also speculated tat extinction

may often be random. That is, certain species may be eliminated and others may survive

(25) for no particular reason. A species’ survival may have nothing to do with its ability or

inability to adapt. If so, some of evolutionary history may reflect a sequence of essentially

random events.

Across

GMAT的语法很特别, 不是对不对的问题, 是好不好的问题.

有更好的东东的时候, 就选更好的.

LES

又看到一关于the的语法点，供大家参考。

the与复数名词连用，指整个群体：
－They are the teachers of this school. (指全体教师)
－They are teachers of this school.(指部分教师)

mindfree

It is estimated that over 99 percent of all species that ever existed have become

extinct.

It is a different sentence. So I stick wiht E.

"That" is still necessary if the sentence is referencing to a particular group. One example:

99% of the 500 students that took GMAT in May got 800.
Comparing "99% of 500 students that took ..." The latter is wrong.

Quote:

RollingStone Magazine: "Eighty percent of the people (that work) at AOL are clueless"

ZDNet: "Although spam still accounts for nearly 25 percent of the e-mail (that are) sent to Cypress, ..."

CS Monitor: "The result, according to experts monitoring the situation, is almost 20 percent of the billions of American taxpayers dollars (that are) being spent to rebuild Iraq is ..."

MSN" 98 percent of the time that people use guns defensively..."

"All" is different because it does not refer to a particular group. Personally I think the number (5 hundred million) should be preceded by a "that".

kevintong

e的语感架构更american，

不过，如果从时态上考察，其实b蛮对的

绿袖子

这道题目真讨厌，哪个看着都不完全对。看来看去还是选e算了～

agnesqin

B.