求教GWD最新试题4第4题

livetofly

看了那么多的前人的讨论，好像对于D中的of的用法都集中在了price of sth，但是有没有可能of真正的用途是three times of呢？也就是说原文可以写成

A new hair-growing drug is being sold for the price three times of what the drug's maker charges....

而原文之所以写成three times the price,是因为要强调这个three times而采取的一种倒装的形式？

但是，我也不否认，price(,per mg,)that是比较常见到的用法....

晕啊！！！

SL320

i support C

what = all that = something that

d) of what = of the price that , it seems redundency

for those who against c). I believe your concern is "the drug's makers charge... at/of price" so that you want a pp in front of price.

beibei649

c！！！！！！！

fd983314

看了很多美国人和印度人的答案。CD各一半。

这道题答案应该为D.

答案涉及到两个固定用法：

1. Sell for the price of sth(or some amount)

2. Charge some amount (or sth) for sth. (ie.charges ten dollars for a haircut.)

把D带入答案：

A new hair-growing drug is being sold for three times the price, per milligram, of what (of the price that) the drug’s maker charges for another product with the same active ingredient.

 

就是：drug is sold for (3 times) the price of the price that the maker charges for the product. 这是很标准的表达。

 

回头看C。这里C只能做定语从句先行词。（不可能是同位语从句）在从句中做charge的宾语。按照ETS的倾向，作宾语的that应当被省略。所以C不是优选答案。

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seanysotime

C

that在后一个句子里做宾语，跟charge

我是马甲哥哥

C is the obvious answer, period.

我是马甲哥哥

以下是引用fd983314在2007-1-15 15:22:00的发言：

看了很多美国人和印度人的答案。CD各一半。

这道题答案应该为D.

I don't think the American people will pick D.

Tonytan2006

...for three times the price, per milligram, of what the drug’s maker charges for another product with the same active ingredient.
我的理解是这样的：three times the price of the price which the drug's maker charges for another prodcut...第一个price指现在三倍的价钱，第二个price指drug's maker正常charge的价钱。用price which来带入what可能会好理解一些。

julianfl

转载：

ANSWER:  C  I have researched this question, both here on ST and in the grammar/style texts, and I cannot find any support for D in this case (or, generally, as "of what" is simply poor style, even when it is not grammatically incorrect). This is a question that deals with correct usage of a relative pronoun (that, which, who, whom, what, and whose). The function of a relative pronoun is to introduce a subordinate clause and relate it to another antecedent word or idea. In this sentence, that idea is "...three times the
                 price..." The relative pronouns which would work here are: that and which (not "what," not "of what, not "at which"). So, A, B, D, and E do not work with this construction. And, by the way, "of what" can nearly always be said in a better, more stylistically acceptable fashion. This sentence should read, "A new hair-growing drug is being sold for three times the price, per milligram, that the drug's maker charges for another product with the same active ingredient." The first part of the sentence is the main (or independent) clause. The last part of the sentence is the subordinate (or dependent) clause. "That" refers to "three times the price" clearly and it introduces the subordinate clause correctly. C is the best answer, FOR THIS CONSTRUCTION. If "the price" were omitted from the sentence, then this would be correct, "A new hair-growing drug is being sold for three times, per milligram, what the drug's maker charges for another product with the same active ingredient." But, even with this construction, "of what" does not work.

sweetbeer

以下是引用roric在2006-8-23 11:39:00的发言：

GWD-1-Q7:

A recent review of pay scales indicates that CEO’s now earn an average of 419 times more pay than blue-collar workers, compared to a ratio of 42 times in 1980.

 

 

 

1. that CEO’s now earn an average of 419 times more pay than blue-collar workers, compared to a ratio of 42 times

2. that, on average, CEO’s now earn 419 times
         the pay
         of blue-collar workers, a ratio that compares to 42 times

本题：sold for three times
        the price, per milligram, of
        what the drug’s maker charges for。。。

GWD-1-Q7与这一题太像了，多一个what语意上也很说的通

就是D

同意  ，这题我做的时候在C、D上耗费了两分钟，最终投奔D， price 有两个，不能简单用that引导

http://www.google.com/search?as_q=the+price+of+what&hl=zh-CN&newwindow=1&num=100&btnG=Google+%E6%90%9C%E7%B4%A2&as_epq=the+price+of+what&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&as_rights=

在这里会发现很多the price of that 的用法，前面有half, double, twice

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