Season 2——manhattan 37（已点评）

superbat28

37. In the remote western province of China, the prevailing price for a large bowl of noodles, which are a staple in the region, rose from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners had colluded to fix their prices.
A rose from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners had
B rose from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, and prompts allegations that noodle shop owners had
C had risen from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners
D had risen from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners had
E raised from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners had

选项解析：The original sentence is the correct one. prompting allegations that noodle shop owners had is a modifier and acts like an adverb, modifying the whole preceding sentence and suggesting the consequence of that sentence.

There are three actions in the underlined portion of the sentence. The logical time line is that (1) the noodle shop owners colluded to fix their prices, so (2) the price of a bowl of noodles suddenly increased, causing (3) the allegations against the noodle shop owners. All three actions took place in the past. The original sentence uses the simple past “rose” to indicate that the second action took place in the past. The construction “rose…, prompting allegations” correctly indicates the cause and effect relationship between the second and third actions. Finally, the use of the past perfect “had colluded” correctly indicates that the alleged collusion took place prior to the other two past actions.
(A) CORRECT. The original sentence avoids all of the errors in the other choices.
(B) The construction “rose…and prompts” fails to convey the cause and effect relationship between the price increase and the leveling of allegations against the noodle shop owners. Furthermore, the use of the present tense “prompts” is incorrect: according to the original sentence, the allegations have already been made.
(C) The use of the past perfect “had risen” and the simple past “colluded” reverses the time line of events, illogically suggesting that the prices increased before the noodle shop owners colluded to raise their prices.
(D) The use of the past perfect “had risen” with the past perfect “had colluded” illogically suggests that the price increase and the alleged collusion occurred simultaneously. Furthermore, when correctly using the past perfect tense, the sentence must also have some other action in the simple past tense; here there is no such simple past action.
(E) The verb “to rise” is an irregular verb. The simple past tense is not “raised,” but rather “rose.”

题目点评：
本题涉及考点：时态，逻辑修饰
这道题的CD两个选项had risen运用了过去完成时。在GMAT中，一个句子是否出现多种时态，是要根据逻辑意思来判断的。如果作者在句子中有一种意味，它想表达【一件事发生在另一件事之前/之后】时，此时需要在一个句子中出现多种时态来满足这个时间轴上的要求。

特别的，如果作者先说了一件发生在过去的事件A，然后又说了一件发生在事件A之前的事件B；同时，作者又想强调这两件事情发生的顺序的话，我们才需要引用过去完成时来进行表达。所以，总而言之，多重时态的出现是根据句子语义和逻辑要求的。而在这道题中，我们并不需要用had risen，因为作者并没有引入另一件发生在过去的事情来和rise进行时间上的对比。相反的，对于【价钱升高】这件事情，作者只是在简单陈述过去发生的事实。
（更多详情，可见Manhattan Chapter 7 Past perfect tense）

此外，5个选项中只有B选项的prompt用法和其他选项不一致；而这种不一致的用法使得B选项的逻辑意思也和其余选项不同。以A为例，V-ing放在句尾是为了做【结果状语】，表明【面价涨了这件事情，prompt了一个allegation】（用法同OG12 Q47）；而B则变成了noodle rose… and promotes… 二者的平行，不但不符合逻辑，而且平行的二者时态还不一致。

最后，A和E的区别在于rise和raise上面。
Rise是不及物动词，常常表示“提高，上升，升高”之意；而raise则是及物动词，后面是要跟宾语的。一般常见的表达有: raise your hand, raise my salary等。

思路点评：
2楼  leo5702  提到 【had risen时态不对，我是参考了定从里是一般现在时，用完成时态没有根据】
不幸的是，这个想法是错误的哦~我们判断是用had risen还是直接用rose，如同大家所讨论的一样，是看rise这个词和collude这个词的先后顺序来决定的。
你提到说【定语从句是一般现在时】 ==>Well，在这道题里，定语从句一定是一般现在时，因为【面是主食】这个事情是一个客观事实，而在描述客观事实的时候一定要是用一般现在时的。而且，这个客观事实并不和其他动作形成先后顺序关系，所以你的参照点找错了~

13楼 lovepunch  说 如果B改成prompted对不对？
答案是，B选项依旧不对。如同fox在5楼提到的，price并不是prompt动作的发出者，而是【price上升这件事情】是prompt的动作发出者，这件事情造成的影响是prompt的XXXX。

所以在这道题里，prompt就应该用【，V-ing】形式作为主句的结果状语，修饰整个句子带来的结果~

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geniealice

37. In the remote western province of China, the prevailing price for a large bowl of noodles, which are a staple in the region, rose from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners had colluded to fix their prices.
A rose from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners had
B rose from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, and prompts allegations that noodle shop owners had
C had risen from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners
D had risen from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners had
E raised from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners had

-- by 会员 superbat28 (2011/10/24 8:16:05)

A
Ving分词从句做结果修饰整个句子
colluded to fix their prices发生在price rose前，过去完成
rise过去时rose

leo5702

37. In the remote western province of China, the prevailing price for a large bowl of noodles, which are a staple in the region, rose from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners had colluded to fix their prices.
A rose from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners had
B rose from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, and prompts allegations that noodle shop owners had
C had risen from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners
D had risen from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners had
E raised from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners had

-- by 会员 superbat28 (2011/10/24 8:16:05)

好纠结的考时态的题目
in……，……noodles……， rose……， promoting……that……had………
B，and prompts和前面rose不平行；
c，had risen时态不对，我是参考了定从里是一般现在时，用完成时态没有根据，所以用一个简单的一般过去时就可以了；
d，大意同c；
e，raise应该是个及物动词，后面直接跟宾语吧，似乎用rise好，这个不确定。
所以选a了。

hhou

37. In the remote western province of China, the prevailing price for a large bowl of noodles, which are a staple in the region, rose from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners had colluded to fix their prices.
A rose from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners had
B rose from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, and prompts allegations that noodle shop owners had
C had risen from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners
D had risen from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners had
E raised from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners had

-- by 会员 superbat28 (2011/10/24 8:16:05)

选A吧~RISE应该用过去式，只剩下A和B
B明显不对，不是并列，prompt的时态也不对

majestywhite

colluded to fix their prices.
A rose from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners had
B rose from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, and prompts allegations that noodle shop owners had
C had risen from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners
D had risen from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners had
E raised from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners had

选A。
原句prompting， ing形式的伴随结果。had colluded发生在价格rose之前，所以用过去完成时。rose用过去时无歧义。

B、and prompts表示并列，首先与前文rose的时态不符，逻辑上无法解释。其次，prompts的动作也不能由price发出。

C、had risen时态不对，表示动作发生在colluded之前，逻辑不对。

D、同C，且前后都是过去完成时，时态不对，其次没有表明动作的先后顺序。

E、raised是及物动词，在此不用来表示价格上涨。

clover033

37. In the remote western province of China, the prevailing price for a large bowl of noodles, which are a staple in the region, rose from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners had colluded to fix their prices.
A rose from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners had
B rose from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, and prompts allegations that noodle shop owners had
C had risen from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners
D had risen from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners had
E raised from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners had

选A。
两个动词+一个时态确定正确选项。
1、rise。作为不及物动词，过去时为rose. raise为及物动词，故E错误。
2、prompt。prompting过去分词在这里表示"rose from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight"的伴随。B排除；
3、时态，overnight的时间状语以及had colluded点明了用的是一般时，故C,D排除。

innerwarrior

37. In the remote western province of China, the prevailing price for a large bowl of noodles, which are a staple in the region, rose from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners had colluded to fix their prices.
A rose from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners had
B rose from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, and prompts allegations that noodle shop owners had
C had risen from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners
D had risen from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners had
E raised from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners had

1分15秒，选C
prompting表伴随结果，排除B
逻辑语义分析，应该是已经提升了价钱，造成了面馆老板collude价钱。
如果collude用had的话逻辑意思不通，所以排除ABDE
只有C

may24

A
共谋调价这个动作应该是在涨价之前用过去完成时，排除C
promoting表伴随结果，排除B
E中raise是及物动词，使用不当
D中had risen与had colluded都为过去完成时，暗示两个动作同时发生不合逻辑，且句中没有任何的词语提示或要求要用过去完成时
collude[k?'lu:d]  v. 串通, 共谋

fox0923

37. In the remote western province of China, the prevailing price for a large bowl of noodles, which are a staple in the region, rose from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners had colluded to fix their prices.
A rose from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners had
B rose from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, and prompts allegations that noodle shop owners had
C had risen from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners
D had risen from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners had
E raised from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners had

-- by 会员 superbat28 (2011/10/24 8:16:05)

选A
首先肯定先排除B，因为and promotes和前面的rose根本不是平行概念，promoting是对前面rose from 27cents to 31 cents overnight的结果状语，这样留下A，C，D，E。
C中had risen应该发生在owners colluded the price这个动作的后面。
D同理，had risen时态错误。
E--raised from明显不对，raise后面要加object，可以说raised price，在这里作为“使提高，上升”的意思。而raise是“上升，提高”的意思，不需要加object，后面可以直接跟prepositional phrase.

Sophia001

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37. In the remote western province of China, the prevailing price for a large bowl of noodles, which are a staple in the region, rose from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners had colluded to fix their prices.
A rose from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners had
B rose from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, and prompts allegations that noodle shop owners had
C had risen from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners
D had risen from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners had
E raised from 27 cents to 31 cents overnight, prompting allegations that noodle shop owners had

1分15秒，选C
prompting表伴随结果，排除B
逻辑语义分析，应该是已经提升了价钱，造成了面馆老板collude价钱。
如果collude用had的话逻辑意思不通，所以排除ABDE
只有C

-- by 会员 innerwarrior (2011/10/25 1:13:06“
”已经上升的价格“怎么可能再造成老板们密谋调整价格哪？价格上升是由什么引起哪？题目要表达的意思是上升的价格引起一种指控：面店老板们密谋调整价格。我认为你因果倒置了。。。。