Season 1——manhattan 15(travel inspire Christie)(已结贴)

毛毛carina

15. With her archaeologist husband,travels inspired several mystery novels by Agatha Christie; travelers to Egypt can still stay at the Old Cataract Hotel, the model for the hotel in one of Christie's most famous books.
A. With her archaeologist husband, travels inspired several mystery novels by Agatha Christie
B. Agatha Christie used her travels with herarchaeologist husband to inspire several mystery novels
C. Because her husband was an archaeologist, Agatha Christie was able to use their travels as inspiration for several of hermystery novels
D. Together with her archaeologist husband, Agatha Christie was inspired to incorporate their travel into several of hermystery novels
E. Agatha Christie's travels with herarchaeologist husband served as inspiration for several of her mystery novels

选项解析：
This sentence has a modifier error. At the beginning of the sentence, “with her archaeologist husband” acts as an adverbial modifier of the main verb “inspired.” How did travels inspire her novels? The travels did so with her husband, a nonsensical meaning. Also, when such a modifier contains the pronoun “her,” the logical antecedent, Agatha Christie, must follow the comma instead of “travels.”
(A) This choice is incorrect as it repeats the original sentence.
(B) This choice illogically states that the travels somehow inspired the novels themselves, but the novels are inanimate objects; travel cannot inspire inanimate objects. Rather, Christie was inspired by her travels.
(C) This choice introduces a false cause-effect statement. According to this choice, Christie “was able to use their travels as inspiration” because her husband was an archaeologist, which is not the most logical statement. It might be logical that she would travel because of her husband’s profession, or that she would be able to use their travels as inspiration because she was an imaginative writer. But the link between his work as an archaeologist and her ability to use something as inspiration is unclear.
(D) This choice seems to indicate that Christie and her husband were inspired to write the novels together. This cannot be the case because this choice also clearly states that they are "her mystery novels," not both of theirs.
(E) CORRECT. This choice corrects the original modifier error by placing “with her archaeologist husband” immediately after “travels.” Doing so turns the prepositional phrase into a noun modifier of the correct noun. Using “Agatha Christie’ travels” as the subject of the independent clause before the semicolon, the meaning is clear: her travels served as inspiration for her novels.

题目点评：
本题涉及语法点：修饰、逻辑表达

如若熟悉各种功能词会所带来的不同逻辑含义，可以很快选出正确答案。
如本题中的with, because, together with.
1)比如逻辑上应该是旅游，而不是她的丈夫给她灵感。因此A选项，旅游和丈夫一起(with: 协同、一起)给她灵感是不对的，同理C选项，因为(because:表达直接因果关系)丈夫才有灵感也不对。
2)而被启发的是Christie，而不能她的小说（小说没有生命，不能被启发），也不是他的丈夫。因此B选项“启发小说”，错误。D选项“丈夫也被启发”(together with: 同样地、也、一同地)，错误。

*：如果知道以上区别，这个题目你能不能秒杀了呢？

记住inspire后面要跟人：
inspire (from LDOCE):
(1) to encourage someone by making them feel confident and eager to do something
(2) to give someone the idea for something, especially a story, painting, poem etc
(3) to make someone have a particular feeling or react in a particular way

B选项是根据inspire后面没有跟有生命的物体才排除的，但是其实即便不知道inspire后面必须要跟有生命的物体，我们也可以排除它：
Agatha Christie用旅途启发”小说”，启发的是谁的小说呢？句子没有说明白。表意不清，同样是错误的。而相比E选项，表意非常清晰，用了her mystery novels，表明是Christie的小说。

思维点评：
1."travel有husband？"—— 2011finish
“with做伴随修饰traves，很明显错误，travels 怎么能有老公？ 而且从逻辑角度分析，travel是个客观事件不能主观的影响一部小说，只能是人主观的被一件事件影响”——bbfcsak
这里一定要注意，her不是指代travels，her只能指代Agatha Christie。所以不是travels的老公，而是Agatha Christie的老公。。。只是travels协同老公给它灵感，这个表达Nonsensical.

2. “主动优于被动”，“动词优于名词”——bbfcsak
"served as inspiration for 不如直接说 to inspire 简洁"——纳丁Cat
umm...记住，语法永远都要建立在逻辑含义的基础上，而不是可以用条框来限定的，不同的表达表现出来不同的含义，切不可以就直接认为哪个表达比哪个好；这两个说法，都必须是建立在逻辑含义的基础上的。
关于主动是否优于被动详见本帖：http://forum.chasedream.com/GMAT_SC/thread-590476-1-1.html
关于动词优于名词：动词和名词所表现出来的区别是很subtle的，一个动态，一个静态，bbfcsak仔细体会一下，其实这里用静态更好，因为是描述功能。（类似的to do和for doing，前者表示动态，后者表示静态，哪个更好，也是取决于逻辑含义的）。

3. “served as 直接跟在herarchaeologist husband 后面，有修饰husband的嫌疑。 ”——纳丁Cat
其实serve是动词，它只能refer to the subject "Agatha Christie's travels". 粗心了吧~

做题小tips：
如果一个句子中有分号，而划线部分仅在分号的其中一边，那么没有划线的一边可以不看，除了稍微留意一下时态、指代一致，以及句式结构（可能结构上和另一个分句很一致，这样的句子会比较漂亮）。功能词、限定词是判断句子内、句子间、段落间逻辑结构的核心：
功能词、限定词在GMAT里非常重要，不仅仅SC，在CR,RC中也有同等重要的地位。例如本题中，注意用her和用the来修饰novels的区别，注意用with和together with和because表明的不同逻辑含义，可以很容易判断出错误逻辑。

本次精华楼层：
8楼——chlegend
9楼——若雪

helio5

按句意理解，呃。。。
选E

alex168

B？

2011finish

只能E。
A travel有husband？
B 鼓励了several mystery novels？
C because没这个逻辑，这里
D was inspired被动，被谁？结合？书提前写好了？

sandychen168

感觉选E。

ABCD各自有ambiguous的地方

bbfcsak

这题我选b
原因如下：
a，with做伴随修饰traves，很明显错误，travels 怎么能有老公？ 而且从逻辑角度分析，travel是个客观事件不能主观的影响一部小说，只能是人主观的被一件事件影响。
c，文中并没有指出女作者的小说和她老公是archaeologist有着因果关系，所以这里的造成了逻辑谬论，难道说只有当她老公是archaeologist她才能用他们的旅行来写小说么？
d，从逻辑上出发，显然女作者是被他们的旅行所激发的灵感，而不是激发灵感把旅行写进她的小说里，显然这里也有逻辑谬论改变了原句的意思。
e，这个句子从意思和逻辑上来说没错，但是由于主动优于被动，旅行被女作家当作灵感来写小说不及女作者把旅行当作灵感来写小说好。然后动词优于名词，inspire比inspiration要好。

然后b，Agatha Christie used her travels with her archaeologist husband to inspire several mystery novels。
somebody used something to do something,结构正确，由于小说已经写完了，事情是发生在过去，所以时态也正确，所以次答案为最优选项。

个人愚见欢迎乡亲们拍砖。

nhelpn

E
根据句子原意和语态。

hnhrc1

只能是E了吧，B的inspire不对

chlegend

选E。

A的by似乎是和inspire搭配，我的第一理解是travel通过Agatha Christie来inspire novel

B改变原句意思，Agatha Christie不是有意识地利用travel来inspire XXXX

C改变原句意思，错误地建立了因果关系

D改变了travel和novel之间的关系，作者想表达travel inspired novel，而D选项的意思是把“旅行写进小说里”。

若雪

15. With her archaeologist husband,travels inspired several mystery novels by Agatha Christie; travelers toEgypt can still stay at the Old Cataract Hotel, the model for the hotel in oneof Christie's most famous books.
        A       With her archaeologist husband, travelsinspired several mystery novels by Agatha Christie
        B       Agatha Christie used her travels with herarchaeologist husband to inspire several mystery novels
        C       Because her husband was an archaeologist,Agatha Christie was able to use their travels as inspiration for several of hermystery novels
        D      Together with her archaeologist husband,Agatha Christie was inspired to incorporate their travel into several of hermystery novels
        E       Agatha Christie's travels with herarchaeologist husband served as inspiration for several of her mystery novels

-- by 会员 毛毛carina (2011/9/17 0:03:16)

继续补作业~~大爱这种需要逻辑意思来解题的练习！！！
E
AC和她丈夫一起的旅游激发了她的创作...【重点是旅行激发创作】
A travels做主语with her husband, 逻辑主语不匹配
B AC激发了她的创作...逻辑意思不对
C 看到because囧了下，句子无因果关系，逻辑错误。their无指代
D their无指代。
【讨论一下】并且我觉得CD都改变了句子的意思吧。原意是旅游激发了她的创作..CD是AC用她的旅游/将她的旅游融合进书中..不知道这个算不算改变原意
E 看到AC's travels虽然不舒服了下，扫到后面有Her指代前面AC'S，并无较大的错误，就它了~