OG52 V OG150

flowerrainn

请教：

52。The rising of costs of data-processing operations at many financial institutions has created a growing opportunity for independent companies to provide these services more efficiently and at lower cost.

(A) The rising of costs

(B) Rising costs

(C) The rising cost

(D) Because the rising cost（C）

(E) Because of rising costs

C is the best choice. In choice A, The rising of costs is unidiomatic, and in B costs... has lacks subject-verb agreement. Choices D and E produce sentence fragments since Because makes the clause subordinate rather than independent.

150. In the mid-1960’s a newly installed radar warning system mistook the rising of the moon as a massive missile attack by the Soviets.

(A) rising of the moon as a massive missile attack by the Soviets

(B) rising of the moon for a massive Soviet missile attack

(C) moon rising to a massive missile attack by the Soviets

(D) moon as it was rising for a massive Soviet missile attack（B）

(E) rise of the moon as a massive Soviet missile attack

Choice B is best because it alone correctly handles the idiom to mistake x for y. Though choice D manages the correct preposition, for, the phrase the moon as it was rising for is less efficient and precise than the phrasing of choice B: since rising functions as a verb in D, the phrase for a massive... attack now seems to modify rising rather than mistook. Choice C incorrectly uses mistook... to, and choices A and E incorrectly use mistake... as. Choice E also employs the nonidiomatic rise of the moon.

上两题中第一题说In choice A，The rising of costs is unidiomatic

               为什么第二题，THE RISING OF THE MOON 是对的呢 ？且OG解释说E also employs the nonidiomatic rise of the moon。THE RISE OF 又为什么不对呢？

rt316

rise作为名词，一般的结构为the rise in而很少用of结构，比如：the rise in the cost of表示一个方面的增长；

the rising of是可行的结构，但是52和150的强调对象不同，52中，到底是‘上升的成本（the rising cost）增加了机会’还是‘成本的上升（the rising of costs）这个过程增加了机会’？逻辑上前者更合理。150则正相反，强调的是正在进行的动作或过程。

vincent0330

只有一个字, 妙!!

waterpoo

我有点不解，是“上升”创造了机会，还是“成本”创造了机会，我觉得逻辑上应该是前者呀。。。

waterpoo

唉，我也有点晕了。又看了一遍stoneren的帖子，好像成本引起机会正确。。。

flywood

52题我也想了很久,晕,我觉得成本的上升和上升的成本没有太大的区别啦,不知道为什么A就不对?

flowerrainn

stoneren,谢谢你的解答，更理解了一些。

THE RISING OF THE COSTS. 重心是RISING这个动作，这个过程，逻辑上为后面的HAS CREATED 的主语不好：

RISING COST                         。重心是COST 这个名词的内容，跟适合为后面HAS CREATED的主语

valarie

以下是引用stoneren在2004-7-2 6:19:00的发言：

rise作为名词，一般的结构为the rise in而很少用of结构，比如：the rise in the cost of表示一个方面的增长；

the rising of是可行的结构，但是52和150的强调对象不同，52中，到底是‘上升的成本（the rising cost）增加了机会’还是‘成本的上升（the rising of costs）这个过程增加了机会’？逻辑上前者更合理。150则正相反，强调的是正在进行的动作或过程。

那有没有the rise of the new star 这一说法呢？

rt316

the rise of这种结构也有，the rise of强调东西的属性(rise)，而the rise in强调事物的一个方面。

gjgjie

我问了一个外国人，他认为，A错在costs.因为只有data-processing,一个修饰语 ，修饰operations.所以不能用复数！应该用cost.

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