请教GWD1-41

littlemuddie

以下是引用enjoy7habits在2004-7-8 16:57:00的发言：

Leaching, the recovery of copper from the drainage water of mines, as a method of the extraction of minerals, it was well established as early as the eighteenth century, but until about 25 years ago miners did not realize that bacteria take an active part in the process.

1. as a method of the extraction of minerals, it was well established


2. as a method of the extraction of minerals well established


3. was a well-established method of mineral extraction


4. was a well-established method of extracting mineral that was


5. had been a method of mineral extraction, well established

答案是B,请指教

偶先选C, 但后来觉得B反而对。

GMAT原则，不改原意的情况下选最好的。C 改变原意， 它把动词 establish 改成形容词 established, (this is wrong).

B应理解为：Leaching........as method..... established, but....miners did not realize.......

和其他的比较B为最佳答案。请指教。

JerryGuan

以下是引用enjoy7habits在2004-7-8 16:57:00的发言：

Leaching, the recovery of copper from the drainage water of mines, as a method of the extraction of minerals, it was well established as early as the eighteenth century, but until about 25 years ago miners did not realize that bacteria take an active part in the process.

1. as a method of the extraction of minerals, it was well established


2. as a method of the extraction of minerals well established


3. was a well-established method of mineral extraction


4. was a well-established method of extracting mineral that was


5. had been a method of mineral extraction, well established

答案是B,请指教

此题，我会选C

A、D不考虑了。

B除上述的错误外，还有一个：as a method of the extraction of minerals well established

established与被修的名词method离得太远，中间隔了minerals、extraction，牛郎织女之恨！所以，即便把as改为is/was都还有缺陷。

E的错误在于时态的逻辑意思上，虽然语法说得通，但是过去完成意思是：leaching过去是一个method，而现在（说话的现在）就已经不是了，要不怎么叫“过去完成时”呢

薰衣紫草

C

E is wrong. In E, "well established" refers to mineral extraction rather than to "leaching", distorting the orginal meaning of the sentence.

So is D. The orginal meaning is leaching was as early as.....

B is obviously wrong! read it again. The first half of the sentence doesn't even have a vt. because "established" here should be passive --- was established.

missing_80

C

xiao_zhutou

以下是引用lukrenee在2004-11-15 11:01:00的发言：

答案一定是E，B错因为BUT前不是句子，且BUT在句中是连词而不是副词，应要求对称，C错是因为METHOD不能EARLY，你听说过一个方法早的吗？只能说出现得早，此处EARLY是副词不是形容词，E对因为时态对，WELL ESTABLISHED放在逗号后正是为了防止歧义，修饰前面短语的中心词METHOD而不是EXTRACTION。

GWD中很多答案错，要相信自己的判断。

支持lukrenee。

google了一下"as early as", 用法都是时间状语修饰动词。没见到修饰名词的。C中a method as early as不通啊。为什么选C不选E呢？大家帮帮忙吧

ya-ya

以下是引用xiao_zhutou在2005-2-13 2:37:00的发言：

支持lukrenee。

google了一下"as early as", 用法都是时间状语修饰动词。没见到修饰名词的。C中a method as early as不通啊。为什么选C不选E呢？大家帮帮忙吧

支持楼上, C的as early as 成分不清啊, 哪位NN能举出类似的as early as的用法吗?

tuzq

以下是引用valarie在2004-9-20 1:15:00的发言：

I agree on C.

B - incomplete sentence.

E- Had been has no clear time frame. Perfect past tense has to have a clear time frame (from a point in the past to the point in the past). 不过最关键错是well established 扭曲句意。原句认为leaching is a well-established method ... as early as the 18th century. 不是 "the method was well established as early as 18th century" as E suggests. 就是说，不是18实际建成的，而是在18实际是比较完善的方法。

hehe,如果是这样的考虑的话，更应该选E了。现在有无公论呀。

cgcg

做的时候在C和E之间举棋不定。但最终否定C，a method as early as 18C不通的，a method established as early as 18C是可以的，中文译为“早在18世纪便建立的”，修饰动词。

当然，E的过去完成时给句子加了点意思，好像在引申no longer a method。但其他还是讲得通的：

Leaching, <appositive modifying "leaching">, had been a method of mineral extration, well established ... （appositive modifying "a method of mineral extration"), but ....

wwwhahchn

OG011：

Using accounts of various ancient writers they used, scholars have painted a sketchy picture of the activities of an all-female cult that, perhaps as early as the sixth century B.C., worshipped a goddess known in Latin as Bona Dea, "the good goddess."

这里的perhaps as early as the sixth century B.C.，从语法上我分不清是修饰名词cult还是动词worshipped，不过我觉得从逻辑上来说，修饰cult更合适

Geniepink

选B前半句没动词了呀

支持C 否E是因为改变了句子的中心 逻辑不对了 虽然我也觉得 method of mineral extraction as early as...也不太通顺

请指正