GWD Set 12 T19

squalllmt

才做过prep 正确答案是E，毋庸置疑。

struta

请问这句话怎么翻译？？？？

yhwut

C中 it 指代很清楚啊，就是离它最近的单数中心名词－course，虽然很远但是没有争议。
E中 Being... is likely to..., being助动词引导从句做主语很怪吧？而且being的逻辑主语后面也没有明确指出，所以不太好

buffonjuventus

哈哈，回138楼，（估计一年过去了您老人家应该早考完了），希望这个小tip能对跟我一样备战中的人有用。就是我看这种长贴一般从后向前看，因为问题讨论一半是越到后面越成熟的。。。呵呵，可以节省一些看讨论的时间。

mantuofan

其实不要被太多小细节困扰，句意和逻辑结构最重要，根据原句，主语绝对不应是an executive，B,C肯定是不对的，比较另外三个E肯定是最好的。GMAT做题主旨是只有最好的，没有绝对完美的

毛毛的臭脚丫

这题有点难。

smallway

我想问一下，那个A里面说it 指代不明：
难道 It 不能说是形式宾语么？
make it likely to miss signs of incipient trouble or  misinterpret them
= make ( missing signs of incipient trouble or misinterpreting them ) likely
还是说likely 没有这种用法？

Gail小M

我想问一下，那个A里面说it 指代不明：
难道 It 不能说是形式宾语么？
make it likely to miss signs of incipient trouble or  misinterpret them
= make ( missing signs of incipient trouble or misinterpreting them ) likely
还是说likely 没有这种用法？

-- by 会员 smallway (2011/4/20 23:33:01)

1) OG says that it is ambiguous-->which he pointed is< especially if it has...> it can refer to commitment or a course of action.that's ambiguous
2)in A, "it "appers twice, but not refers to  the same thing.(which should be avoided)

crack25

想问一句，为什么笔记上面说they没有指代？指代signs不也正确吗？求证

wy1990824

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 ..."

-- by 会员 biboyoyo (2008/12/2 10:57:00)

强烈支持这个解释~~~基本上和OG的解释一致，同时更易懂~~~
看来英文的东西最好还是用英文去思维