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Suri在奋斗

第三题，真的觉得和现在练的作文的感觉好像啊，答案是A，开始的时候看A都不知道在说啥

GWD25-Q3.
Mel: The official salary for judges has always been too low to attract the best candidates to the job. The legislature’s move to raise the salary has done nothing to improve the situation, because it was coupled with a ban on receiving money for lectures and teaching engagements.
Pat:  No, the raise in salary really does improve the situation. Since very few judges teach or give lectures, the ban will have little or no negative effect.
Pat’s response to Mel is inadequate in that it
A.    attempts to assess how a certain change will affect potential members of a group by providing evidence about its effect on the current members.
B.    mistakenly takes the cause of a certain change to be an effect of that change
C.    attempts to argue that a certain change will have a positive effect merely by pointing to the absence of negative effects
D.    simply denies Mel’s claim without putting forward any evidence in support of that denial
E．assumes that changes that benefit the most able members of a group necessarily benefit all members of that group
M: J的工资低,所以吸引不到最好的人才, raise也不能改变这种情况, 因为coupled 一个ban
P: raise确实改变了这种情况, 因为很少有J去teach or give lecture, 所以ban几乎没有负面影响.
选项A是说, 试图以对现在成员的影响作为证据, 去证明其对潜在成员的影响
P说的话的意思其实就是, 因为现在的J很少去teach or give lecture, 所以那些潜在可以成为J的优秀人才也都不会去teach or give lecture, 所以ban几乎没有负面影响, 所以raise就改变了这种情况
很显然,就是A所描述的那种错误..所以答案为A

Suri在奋斗

今天昨天的心态不好，基本什么都没做
干焦急的时候，就看了下考场介绍，找住的地方
不能这样了，一定要好好把握最后的几天~！！

-- by 会员 Suri在奋斗 (2012/3/14 23:20:58)

suri加油，考前大家都会焦虑的，没事的，功夫都在平时了，正常发挥就一定行的。

-- by 会员 phoebe0624 (2012/3/15 0:33:54)

谢谢菲比姐姐，谢谢姐姐每次的鼓励~~！！suri会好好调整的~~O(∩_∩)O~

Suri在奋斗

http://forum.chasedream.com/GMAT_Preparation/thread-390888-1-1.html
推荐篇帖子~~

-- by 会员 yiayia (2012/3/15 0:04:39)

昨天晚上也是想到了sc，因为看很多人说真正实战的时候sc，的确和平时做过的不一样，今天看到这篇讲的超级详细，每天还要专门抽出时间腾出来给sc，看以前总结的知识点，看自己比较薄弱的比较这个考点，prep07是没有时间看了，就专心研究prep08，gwd的还是觉得不要过细太好，握爪~！

Suri在奋斗

C没问题，我这题的思路也是先理解句意，发现后面的非划线部分"special links between the earthly and celestial realms"说的是emperors，那么最清晰的表达，就是：
把emperors放到逗号前面，然后comma+who bla bla
这样就保证了touch-rule，使得逻辑清晰明确。
这样就只剩下C和E [注]。然后比较这两项，其实就是两个idioms:
allow to be  (allow+infinitive)
perceive as
于是就选C.

[注]：如果ambitious一点，分析到这一步就直接选定C了。因为comma前面要直接跟"emperors"，而不是"only".
换句话说，comma前面直接跟emperors名词结构（可以包括noun modifier）
但这题E的"only"属于adverbial modifier，修饰"performed"，所以要放在"performed"旁边，同时要让"emperors"（或者其所在的noun phrase）紧挨着它的修饰成分"comma+who".

说白了，GMAT整个modifier这块考点的核心，就是把modifier尽量放到它修饰对象旁边，这样使得表意明确清晰。


“但是正确答案c也感觉有个地方不好 be allowed to be done”
我觉得你提炼结构的时候把allow搞错了，这里allow不是被动，是主动。句子结构是：
The state religion allowed the ritual worship to be performed by emperors, who ____.

1. GWD18-Q34
The state religion of ancient China, which came into existence at least as far back as the Han Dynasty (206 B.C. to A.D. 220) and perhaps as early as the Western Zhou Dynasty (1050 B.C. to 771 B.C.), allowed only emperors performing the ritual worship of heaven, perceiving them as special links between the earthly and celestial realms.

A.    only emperors performing the ritual worship of heaven, perceiving them as
B.    only emperors to perform the ritual worship of heaven, with the perception of them being
C.    the ritual worship of heaven to be performed only by emperors, who were perceived as
D.    the ritual worship of heaven, performed by emperors only, with the perception of them as
E.    the ritual worship of heaven as performed by emperors only, who were perceived to be

选的是B，没看到后面的with···being就过去了
但是正确答案c也感觉有个地方不好
be allowed to be done

-- by 会员 Suri在奋斗 (2012/3/14 17:24:16)

-- by 会员 babybearmm (2012/3/15 3:49:40)

这个题目的教训是只看前半段，只关注到allow to do的用法，然后只根据来了个被动，就匆匆选择了，而后半段也是知识点
关于only的位置问题，我也没注意到这点，(*^__^*) 嘻嘻……谢谢姐姐

Suri在奋斗

小狗宝宝加油，你很强大的啊。来闭上眼睛做visualization，想象你坐在考场上，屏幕上出现一道逻辑题，你那么读一遍“嘿，我懂了，这不就跟我之前做的那某道题一个思路嘛，小case”，你哗啦啦就理清思路啦，然后速度扫选项，定睛一看就它了，回答正确加10分！.....反正就想象自己怎么运用平时总结的方法和感受，在考场上势如破竹，那些金牌运动员赛前就这么想的哦

今天昨天的心态不好，基本什么都没做
干焦急的时候，就看了下考场介绍，找住的地方
不能这样了，一定要好好把握最后的几天~！！

-- by 会员 Suri在奋斗 (2012/3/14 23:20:58)

suri慢慢心静下来，今天心态也不好，看了有些前辈的帖子，觉得把考试放太重了，我们能在这里一起学习，攻克GMAT，学到了这么多的东西，机会还这么多，为什么要着急呢？想想半年后的自己看现在，会觉得为小小的琐事而烦恼是多么可笑~~

-- by 会员 yiayia (2012/3/15 0:02:48)

-- by 会员 babybearmm (2012/3/15 4:37:10)

哈哈，姐姐这样说的感觉真好，昨天自己还担心考场上出现各种意外情况，比如把耳塞塞进耳朵突然落进去，被迫中止考试送往医院，囧~~
表想那么多，到时候去考就是的啦~！！

babybearmm

嗯，可以预计SC确实和原来不一样。
http://gmatclub.com/forum/increased-importance-of-modifiers-128608.html
GMAC在逐步增加语意的分量，在开通气会的时候明确说了，今后会出现一道题里语法正确的选项>1个，必须通过语意来解的题目。

http://forum.chasedream.com/GMAT_Preparation/thread-390888-1-1.html
推荐篇帖子~~

-- by 会员 yiayia (2012/3/15 0:04:39)

昨天晚上也是想到了sc，因为看很多人说真正实战的时候sc，的确和平时做过的不一样，今天看到这篇讲的超级详细，每天还要专门抽出时间腾出来给sc，看以前总结的知识点，看自己比较薄弱的比较这个考点，prep07是没有时间看了，就专心研究prep08，gwd的还是觉得不要过细太好，握爪~！

-- by 会员 Suri在奋斗 (2012/3/15 7:15:37)

babybearmm

哇，明白了！我选的C算不上逻辑错误，作者这里的逻辑没问题。
感觉这题有点像咱昨天有争议的那道题(snow geese, restriction...)，当时你们说选B，我说B的过去的fact不代表将来的potential。
这题出得挺好的啊，典型的错误。
谢谢小狗狗分享~

第三题，真的觉得和现在练的作文的感觉好像啊，答案是A，开始的时候看A都不知道在说啥

GWD25-Q3.
Mel: The official salary for judges has always been too low to attract the best candidates to the job. The legislature’s move to raise the salary has done nothing to improve the situation, because it was coupled with a ban on receiving money for lectures and teaching engagements.
Pat:  No, the raise in salary really does improve the situation. Since very few judges teach or give lectures, the ban will have little or no negative effect.
Pat’s response to Mel is inadequate in that it
A.    attempts to assess how a certain change will affect potential members of a group by providing evidence about its effect on the current members.
B.    mistakenly takes the cause of a certain change to be an effect of that change
C.    attempts to argue that a certain change will have a positive effect merely by pointing to the absence of negative effects
D.    simply denies Mel’s claim without putting forward any evidence in support of that denial
E．assumes that changes that benefit the most able members of a group necessarily benefit all members of that group
M: J的工资低,所以吸引不到最好的人才, raise也不能改变这种情况, 因为coupled 一个ban
P: raise确实改变了这种情况, 因为很少有J去teach or give lecture, 所以ban几乎没有负面影响.
选项A是说, 试图以对现在成员的影响作为证据, 去证明其对潜在成员的影响
P说的话的意思其实就是, 因为现在的J很少去teach or give lecture, 所以那些潜在可以成为J的优秀人才也都不会去teach or give lecture, 所以ban几乎没有负面影响, 所以raise就改变了这种情况
很显然,就是A所描述的那种错误..所以答案为A

-- by 会员 Suri在奋斗 (2012/3/15 7:12:01)

babybearmm

太可耐了~~~想象力真丰富！
想象下可能的困难也没事啊，这样就有心理准备了。就想自己遇到的题多么多么难，结果你全都会做，你想“这不就是我平时练习过的难题么？如法炮制”

小狗宝宝加油，你很强大的啊。来闭上眼睛做visualization，想象你坐在考场上，屏幕上出现一道逻辑题，你那么读一遍“嘿，我懂了，这不就跟我之前做的那某道题一个思路嘛，小case”，你哗啦啦就理清思路啦，然后速度扫选项，定睛一看就它了，回答正确加10分！.....反正就想象自己怎么运用平时总结的方法和感受，在考场上势如破竹，那些金牌运动员赛前就这么想的哦

今天昨天的心态不好，基本什么都没做
干焦急的时候，就看了下考场介绍，找住的地方
不能这样了，一定要好好把握最后的几天~！！

-- by 会员 Suri在奋斗 (2012/3/14 23:20:58)

suri慢慢心静下来，今天心态也不好，看了有些前辈的帖子，觉得把考试放太重了，我们能在这里一起学习，攻克GMAT，学到了这么多的东西，机会还这么多，为什么要着急呢？想想半年后的自己看现在，会觉得为小小的琐事而烦恼是多么可笑~~

-- by 会员 yiayia (2012/3/15 0:02:48)

-- by 会员 babybearmm (2012/3/15 4:37:10)

哈哈，姐姐这样说的感觉真好，昨天自己还担心考场上出现各种意外情况，比如把耳塞塞进耳朵突然落进去，被迫中止考试送往医院，囧~~
表想那么多，到时候去考就是的啦~！！

-- by 会员 Suri在奋斗 (2012/3/15 7:22:23)

babybearmm

我晕倒.....corn那道题我当时看得快，把corn和cotton看成一个东东了，恰好还都是c打头的单词.....
Anyway，对做题好像没啥影响，只要把握this year vs. usual的不同点，就能选对B. 这种题有时候不需要100%掌握content，只要提炼出logic.
这里提供了基于content的理解的逻辑思路，挺不错的：
http://www.beatthegmat.com/cotton-and-bollworms-t59004.html
另外这题在verbal review 2nd p.222，官方也有解答

official salary那题选C么？想听听你的排除法思路.....我现在做flaw基本都是正向法，不是排除法，所以如果遇到看不明白的题目我就死菜了。

corn那道题选B？我也是看第2遍才理清楚的。这题的关键是时间，抓住this year相较于以前的特殊点(abnormal vs. normal)
# of corns planted: more than usual
worm damages: this year cannot sustain (usually can sustain)
然后抓住corns和worms的相互关系，worms靠corns养活，同时(genetically engineered) corns又可以杀worms，所谓“魔高一尺道高一丈”，这个意思。
作者的结论是：corn多了，就可以养活更多的worms，所以simply杀不过来了
但是否可能因为corns的杀手锏水准降低了，所以杀不了了？
所以就是选B。因为作者并没有说上一年所有的corns都是genetically engineered corns，所以就可以钻这个漏洞。

A.Whether corn could be bioengineered to produce the insecticide
提到了，yes.
C.Whether other crops ...无关
D.Whether plantings of bioengineered cotton are frequently damaged by insect pests other than bollworms
无关
E.Whether there are insecticides that can be used against bollworms that have developed resistance to the insecticide produced by the bioengineered cotton
无关，只关心cottons自身基因带有的insecticides.

更快的方法：从上面提到的时间角度，排除这4个无关选项，因为这4个都体现不出this year和之前的不同点。
而B，明确提出"this year"，且B就是说，既然"more corns than usual"，是否有次品，就说并非全部genetically engineered?

3. GWD25-Q3.
Mel: The official salary for judges has always been too low to attract the best candidates to the job. The legislature’s move to raise the salary has done nothing to improve the situation, because it was coupled with a ban on receiving money for lectures and teaching engagements.
Pat:  No, the raise in salary really does improve the situation. Since very few judges teach or give lectures, the ban will have little or no negative effect.
Pat’s response to Mel is inadequate in that it
A.    attempts to assess how a certain change will affect potential members of a group by providing evidence about its effect on the current members.
B.    mistakenly takes the cause of a certain change to be an effect of that change
C.    attempts to argue that a certain change will have a positive effect merely by pointing to the absence of negative effects
D.    simply denies Mel’s claim without putting forward any evidence in support of that denial
E．assumes that changes that benefit the most able members of a group necessarily benefit all members of that group
再看这道题其实可以通过排除来选出答案~~这个题目和写作的argument好像哇

40. GWD-23-Q14

Plantings of cotton bioengineered to produce its own insecticide against bollworms, a major cause of crop failure, sustained little bollworm damage until this year.This year the plantings are being seriously damaged by bollworms.Bollworms, however, are not necessarily developing resistance to the cotton’s insecticide.Bollworms breed on corn, and last year more corn than usual was planted throughout cotton-growing regions.So it is likely that the cotton is simply being overwhelmed by corn-bred bollworms.

In evaluating the argument, which of the following would be most useful to establish?

A.Whether corn could be bioengineered to produce the insecticide
B.Whether plantings of cotton that does not produce the insecticide are suffering unusually extensive damage from bollworms this year
C.Whether other crops that have been bioengineered to produce their own insecticide successfully resist the pests against which the insecticide was to protect them
D.Whether plantings of bioengineered cotton are frequently damaged by insect pests other than bollworms
E.Whether there are insecticides that can be used against bollworms that have developed resistance to the insecticide produced by the bioengineered cotton

这道逻辑题，就算是自己去做错后去想也要想半天，真正考试的话，更怕想不过来呀

还有32题，是在第三篇阅读后，一段时间看不进去，就随便点了个，现在再想就想通了

-- by 会员 Suri在奋斗 (2012/3/14 20:02:33)

-- by 会员 babybearmm (2012/3/15 4:15:38)

yiayia

Plantings of cotton bioengineered to produce its own insecticide against bollworms, a major cause of crop failure, sustained little bollworm damage until this year.This year the plantings are being seriously damaged by bollworms （Background）

Bollworms breed on corn, and last year more corn than usual was planted throughout cotton-growing regions. (Premise)
Bollworms, however, are not necessarily developing resistance to the cotton’s insecticide. So it is likely that the cotton is simply being overwhelmed by corn-bred bollworms. (Conclusion)

In fact, the nature of this reasoning is a cause and effect reasoning. A(Bollworms breed on corn, and last year more corn than usual was planted throughout cotton-growing regions.)and B（sustained little bollworm damage until this year）just happen together.



Then think about how to weaken and strengthen the cause and effect reasoning. Let's think why B is correct. First, suppose "plantings of cotton that does not produce the insecticide are not suffering unusually extensive damage from bollworms this year ". It proves the conclusion directly. It seems that bollworms are really not developing resistance to the cotton's insecticide. Second, plantings of cotton that does not produce the insecticide are suffering unusually extensive damage from bollworms this year. It just says that bollworms have the resistance. In addition, here is one additional assumption: farmers will provide insecticide to the planting of cotton that can not produce it itself and it does not matter what kind of insecticide is.