[求助]GWD四道难题...

opeman

先说声抱歉抱歉 因为不是用转贴的 而是自己一个一个照文章打字贴上来的，所以有一些明显错误的选项我就不贴了 打字打的好累 L

Q1: Responding to the public’s fascination with-and sometimes undue alarm over-possible threats from asteroids, a scale developed by astronomers rates the likelihood that a particular asteroid or comet may collide with Earth

(c) astronomers have developed a scale to rate how likely a particular asteroid or comet will be to

(d) astronomers have developed a scale for rating the likelihood that a particular asteroid or comet will

答案是C

可是我觉得D好象也没什么错 , likelihood +that 的用法也很常见啊 不知NN有什么看法？

Q2: New items developed for cars in the 1997 model yearly included a safer air bag, which, unlike previous air bags, eliminated the possibility that a burst of smoke would appear when the bag inflated, and making an already terrified passenger think the car was on fire.

(b) inflated, so that it could make

(c) inflated and made

(d) inflated and make

(e) inflated to make

答案是E 不过我觉得D也似乎没有错(would appear…and would make)，或是C也是可以( would appear…and would made)

这题选项短 却很难搞 还请NN们指教讨论

Q3: The Arthritis research institute of USA advises women of color that they have twice the likelihood to get osteoarthrits of the knee as do white women

(b) that they are twice as likely as white women to get osteoarthrits of the knee

其它三个选项明显错误，答案是A 但是B似乎找不到错误，也很符合OG的用法啊？还请NN指点

Q4: ABC corporation, which owns the Record Town retail chains, announced that since sales of up to 1/4 of its stores are poor, they will be closed.

(b) it is closing up to 1/4 of its store, which accounted for its poor sales

(c) it was closing up to 1/4 of its stores because of poor sales

(d) to be closing, on account of poor sales, up to 1/4 of its stores.

答案是C，我选D，OG中不是最讨厌省略that 吗？ C似乎犯了这个毛病，此外，D有什么大错误吗？

以上几题是GWD里答案很怪无法确定的，还请大家指教讨论 先谢谢NN了

四道难题

rt316

第一题，觉得好像C不太对，how likely的表达不精确，而且will be to的结构好像有问题。

第二题，E不是一个好答案，to make可以有两种搭配，一种是a burst of smoke would appear to make，这种表达复合逻辑，但是，when the bag inflate to make也可以作为不定式的搭配，但逻辑有问题。相比而言，好像还是D好一点。

第三题，have twice the likelihood表达错误，twice是副词，修饰形容词或动词，B可选。

第四题，that最好别省，但是，如果有that的都有错误，那么只好选没有that的，毕竟that不是一个致命错误；另外，ETS的确不希望省that，但是，你现在手上的题目是GWD的，而不是ETS的。这道题从A的角度来看，表达的是将来时态，但是在C里缺乏这种时态的表达，C也不算最好。但是D中on account of poor sales不能明确地修饰stores，所以，由于语序的混乱，错。而且，to be closing似乎也没有必要。

robertchu

Q1: C.  "to rate" is better than "for rating".
Q2: D
Q3: B
Q4: C

opeman

谢谢大大的解释 十分清楚 感恩

看来有争义的只剩下这一题了

到底是要用likelihood that of how likely…真的很令人头疼 还请大大们继续讨论解释啊

Q1: Responding to the public’s fascination with-and sometimes undue alarm over-possible threats from asteroids, a scale developed by astronomers rates the likelihood that a particular asteroid or comet may collide with Earth

(c) astronomers have developed a scale to rate how likely a particular asteroid or comet will be to

(d) astronomers have developed a scale for rating the likelihood that a particular asteroid or comet will

Answer is C,

weiyu

4. A; I think that the retail stores shoul be closed, not the company.

To be discussed...

opeman

但是they 要指代谁？ 如果是选项A 那么they只能指代retail chains, 不能指代store, 因为代名词不可以指代所有格  ¼ of its store, 但是题意应该是指stores关门

可以请Weiyu 再解释清楚一点吗?

Q4: ABC corporation, which owns the Record Town retail chains, announced that since sales of up to 1/4 of its stores are poor, they will be closed.

(b) it is closing up to 1/4 of its store, which accounted for its poor sales

(c) it was closing up to 1/4 of its stores because of poor sales

(d) to be closing, on account of poor sales, up to 1/4 of its stores.

mariezhu

how likely a particular asteroid or comet will be to是不是有问题,为什么不直接说will collide with Earth?

第4题C应该没问题,说的是the corporation was closing up to 1/4 of its stores,虽然主语是corporation,但是被关的还是stores

robertchu

"develop ... to rate ..." is much better than "develop ... for rating ...".
However, I'm also puzzled by the usage of "will be to".  It soundspretty awkward.  Any comments on whether "will be to" is corrector wrong?  NNs?

upychhill

以下是引用opeman在2004-6-22 1:14:00的发言：

先说声抱歉抱歉 因为不是用转贴的 而是自己一个一个照文章打字贴上来的，所以有一些明显错误的选项我就不贴了 打字打的好累 L

Q1: Responding to the public’s fascination with-and sometimes undue alarm over-possible threats from asteroids, a scale developed by astronomers rates the likelihood that a particular asteroid or comet may collide with Earth

(c) astronomers have developed a scale to rate how likely a particular asteroid or comet will be to

(d) astronomers have developed a scale for rating the likelihood that a particular asteroid or comet will

同意opeman，key is D。for rating是标准的定语，没有任何问题。

Q4: ABC corporation, which owns the Record Town retail chains, announced that since sales of up to 1/4 of its stores are poor, they will be closed.

(b) it is closing up to 1/4 of its store, which accounted for its poor sales

(c) it was closing up to 1/4 of its stores because of poor sales

(d) to be closing, on account of poor sales, up to 1/4 of its stores.

The key should be A, agree with weiyu. "they"指代stores，关键是poor sales的逻辑主语决定了bcd的意思都错了。

mariezhu

because of poor sales并不一定说这个poor sales就是corporation的

而且觉得A很不舒服,又犯了从句用名词,主句反倒用代词的毛病.

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关于will be to大家再发表一下意见吧!我个人认为是不正确的