求教~PREP07-sc01-82

小唯唯

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Each year companies in the United States could save as much as $58 billion annually by preventing illness among employees and gain as much as $200 billion through improving performance of workers if they simply provided offices with cleaner air.
(A) annually by preventing illness among employees and gain as much as $200 billion through improving performance of workers if they simply provided
(B) annually if they prevented employee illness and gain as much as $200 billion through worker performance improved by simply providing
(C) annually in employee illness prevention and gain as much as $200 billion through worker performance improved by simply providing
(D) in employee illness prevention and gain as much as $200 billion through improving performance of workers if they simply provided
(E) by preventing illness among employees and gain as much as $200 billion through improved worker performance if they simply provided

正确答案是E 但是我想问E 中 if they simply..中they不会指代不清么？  ABC因为同义重复可以排除掉，但是DE中后面都是they...这个they不能指代employees 而造成误解么？

小唯唯

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geegee

save...by搭配是合适的，in 则错误；

they 理论上可以指代workers, employees，
但是理解上是指代 companies,
因为they provided ...跟 they could save..by...,
(could) gain ... through ...的方向是一致的。

小唯唯

save...by搭配是合适的，in 则错误；

they 理论上可以指代workers, employees，
但是理解上是指代 companies,
因为they provided ...跟 they could save..by...,
(could) gain ... through ...的方向是一致的。

-- by 会员 geegee (2011/3/13 13:32:39)

恩……这样我可以理解。但我总觉得，如果有一个比他更好的话，指代清晰地话，是不是还是要把它排除？

emilyyangf

顶同问！！！

lylove47

小唯唯 发表于 2011-3-13 19:25
save...by搭配是合适的，in 则错误；they 理论上可以指代workers, employees，但是理解上是指代 compani ...

是的，这里的they确实不是最佳的用法，可能补出来the companies会是更佳的选项，但是E是在ABCD里面最佳的选项了，所以选E。并且代词指代这个问题除了非常明显的错误，比如题中没有单数名词，出来一个it，没有指代对象，又或者they在句子前面指代A，如果在句子末尾又出现一个they逻辑上指代B，这些都算是代词指代的明显错误，但是对于有多个复数名词，they可能指代不清的这一条判断依据在gmat中并不是最强烈最强有力的，所以最先开始都不要用这一条来排除答案。