og 110

maomao521

以下是引用心晴在2004-6-7 7:26:00的发言：

110. It has been estimated that the annual cost to the United States of illiteracy in lost industrial output and tax revenues is at least $20 billion a year.

(A)            the annual cost to the United States of illiteracy in lost industrial output and tax revenues is at least $20 billion a year

(B)            the annual cost of illiteracy to the United States is at least $20 billion a year because of lost industrial output and tax revenues

(C)            illiteracy costs the United States at least $20 billion a year in lost industrial output and tax revenues

(D)            $20 billion a year in lost industrial output and tax revenues is the annual cost to the United States of illiteracy

(E)lost industrial output and tax revenues cost the United States at least $20 billion a year because of illiteracy

In choices A, B, and D, the combined use of annual and a year is redundant.
                Choices A, D, and E are awkward and confused because other constructions intrude within the phrase cost... of illiteracy: for greatest clarity, cost should be followed immediately by a phrase (e.g., of illiteracy ) that identifies the nature of the cost. Choice E is particularly garbled in reversing cause and effect, saying that it is lost output and revenues rather than illiteracy that costs the United States over $20 billion a year. Choice B is wordy and awkward, and idiom requires in rather than because of to introduce a phrase identifying the constituents of the $20 billion loss. Concise, logically worded, and idiomatic, choice C is best.

这题的B答案，如果没有前面的annual是不是就对了？

这里的lost industrial output and tax revenues 啥结构丫？看不懂唉。。。

miatu

以下是引用maomao521在2007-11-30 22:04:00的发言：

这里的lost industrial output and tax revenues 啥结构丫？看不懂唉。。。

lost(adj), industrial output(noun), tax revenues(noun).

good luck..

kingtom

这里的illiteracy应该理解为“书写错误”，不是理解为“文盲”吧。这样的话句子意思顺多了。

jean1280

有NN吧B解释清楚点吗？不伽annual应该是对的吧？

blackTshirt

It is estimated that by the end of the decade the cost to the United States petroleum industry of meeting environmental regulations will be ten percent of the price per barrel of refined petroleum.

我觉得还是遵循了介词修饰对象不能引起歧义的原则。

如果换成：It is estimated that by the end of the decade the cost of meeting environmental regulations
            to the United States petroleum industry
            will be ten percent of the price per barrel of refined petroleum. 因为to介词短语和cost的关系并不紧密，所以可能会造成当状语歧义，然后句子变成：It is estimated that by the end of the decade the cost of meeting environmental regulations 
            will be ten percent of the price per barrel of refined petroleum to the United States petroleum industry. （介词短语做状语时，可以把位置调整到句尾。）

但是如果把 to the United States petroleum industry封闭在cost of当中，那么to明确修饰cost。

但是在OG110中，It has been estimated that the annual cost to the United States of illiteracy in lost industrial output and tax revenues is at least $20 billion a year.     to the United States并不会引起这样的歧义，所以应该优先cost of 名词结构。

open to discuss...

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