GWD Set 12 T19

biboyoyo

我認為答案是E，
原因是選項C改變了原句的結構
選項C在灰色色塊的部份，miss or
misinterpret signs of incipient trouble when they do appear

應該要是"miss signs of incipient trouble or misinterpret them"才對，

    

GWD-12-Q19:

    

Heavy commitment by an
executive to a course of action, especially if it has worked well in the past,
makes it likely to miss signs of incipient trouble or misinterpret them when
they do appear.

    

A.     
Heavy commitment by an executive to a course of action,
especially if it has worked well in the past, makes it likely to miss signs of
incipient trouble or misinterpret them when they do appear.

    

B.      
An executive who is heavily committed to a course of
action, especially one that worked well in the past, makes missing signs of
incipient trouble or misinterpreting ones likely when they do appear.

    

C.     
An executive who is heavily committed to a course of action
is likely to miss or
misinterpret signs of incipient trouble when they do appear, especially
if it has worked well in the past.

    

D.     
Executives’ being heavily committed to a course of action,
especially if it has worked well in the past, makes them likely to miss signs
of incipient trouble or misinterpreting them when they do appear.

    

E.       Being heavily committed to a course of action, especially
one that has worked well in the past, is likely to make an
            executive miss signs of incipient trouble or
misinterpret them when they do appear.

    


以下轉自國外論壇：
http://www.urch.com/forums/gmat-sentence-correction/91865-commitment.html
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The answer is E.

    

    A is wrong because "heavy commitment ... makes it
likely to miss ... or misinterpret ..." doesn't make sense. Makes what
likely to miss or misinterpret? Heavy commitment? Should be something
more like "makes it likely that the executive will miss..."

    

    B is wrong because it says illogically that the executive makes missing or misinterpreting signs likely.

    

    C is wrong because "miss or misinterpret signs...
when they do appear" does not make sense -- either they miss the signs
or they misinterpret the signs when they do appear. Has to be: "miss
signs... or misinterpret them when they do appear." Another problem
with C is the ambiguous pronoun reference in: "if it has worked well in
the past." "It" is meant to refer to "course of action," but in C could
just as easily be felt to refer to "incipient trouble."

    

    D has several problems. "Executives' being
heavily committed" is an awkward subject. The pronoun in "makes them
likely" is referring to a noun that is in the possessive case. The
gerund "misinterpreting" does not parallel the infinitive "to miss."

    

    There’s nothing wrong with E. "Being heavily
committed to a course of action" is not a modifying phrase; it's a noun
phrase functioning as the subject: "Being ... committed ... is likely
to ..."

lupisces

PREP E

又一次颠覆了我滴 宪法。。。

BEING....

PS 楼上给的英文解释不错哦！

myloveavril

刚做了prep 答案E

Oyster+gmat

是哪份prep? 我刚刚在那份prep pdf版里没有搜到这道题么。。。

我个人认为E的问题就像前面有人说得一样，谁来being committed？这个语义很混乱

而很多人说c的it指代不清

窃以为，当一句话里有一个以上的it指代的词在逻辑意思上说得过去的时候，才叫不清 这句话很明显 只有一个action才能符合整个语意

所以不存在指代不清这个问题吧

otd

pennyrun

one that 不能做同位语吗？ 为什么啊 请教NN

rabits5218

請教這題的題意為何?我怎麼都搞不懂阿><

lijiahui0422

being committed...是个名词成分，不需要有谁发出这个动作

playing basketball is my hobby.

playing就是个动名词，不像现在分词那样需要发出者

ray81

这是og12th的101题，书上答案就是E

hlp1222

崩溃

本来看完前10页都差不多说服自己选c了

看到这里  我又要重新理思路改投E

这什么破题啊？？？？？

carina890107

og 12里有这道题，见101，答案选E