暂时停止更新~suri的gmat之旅，加油加油~~~~

babybearmm

I think the biggest difference is that the way we regard the role of " Bollworms, however,are not necessarily developing resistance to the cotton's  insecticede. "

My point is that the argument is proceed by refuting one possible reason most obvious above and then stating another reason which seems most possible, not just saying that cotton's damage is caused by the increasing number of insects. So I weaken the argument by point out that the first point is right.

So if it is a boldface problem, what's the role of "Bollworms, however, are not necessarily developing resistance to the cotton’s insecticide." and "So it is likely that the cotton is simply being overwhelmed by corn-bred bollworms."?

-- by 会员 yiayia (2012/3/15 11:30:14)

I second yiayia in thinking and expressing in English, so I'll follow.
"So if it is a boldface problem ..."
I think you asked a great question!

First of all, regarding the meaning: I think that "not necessarily" means "not absolutely", i.e. 0%-99% (not 100%). By contrast, suri thinks that "not necessarily" means "no", i.e. 0%.

See here
http://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/lsat-cr-t9476.html
An organism does not necessarily belong to a class
--> while this choice seems to be speaking about all organisms and classes, the words "not necessarily" actually indicate that one example is sufficient.  i.e., "not necessarily" means that all we actually need is one counterexample to the statement.

Back to yiayia's golden question, what is the role of this sentence:
" Bollworms, however,are not necessarily developing resistance to the cotton's  insecticede. "

My take is that the authors are merely saying "The worms are not surely developing resistance. (We do not know whether they have developed or not, so let's simply forget about it)." In other words, the author DID consider the potential issue of developing resistance, BUT the author simply did not count this issue into his/her conclusion.

泾渭不凡

Aha, English is a concise and precise. I find my great fault in doing the work is that I always try to translate English into Chinese. In fact, this action is a waste of time and sometimes will make me miss important message. So I decide to write and think in English. Hope to help~-- by 会员 yiayia (2012/3/15 11:44:55)

agreed~
There are so many bugs during the process of translating English to Mandarin ....Sdcar always advices us to keep reading and writing English all the time~~Although it's difficult for Funfun to write English all the time, Funfun will try her best to keep working on it~~

PS: Funfun cannot analyse SC in English..........

babybearmm

I have googled "not necessarily" and here's what I have got:

     necessarily  
         1    adv  If you say that something is not necessarily the case, you mean that it may not be the case or is not always the case.  
with neg, ADV group, ADV before v    (vagueness)  Anger is not necessarily the most useful or acceptable reaction to such events..., A higher fee does not necessarily mean a better course.    If you reply `Not necessarily', you mean that what has just been said or suggested may not be true.  
?not necessarily        convention  
`He was lying, of course.'<emdash>`Not necessarily.'    
   
         2    adv  If you say that something necessarily happens or is the case, you mean that it has to happen or be the case and cannot be any different.
ADV before v, ADV group  (=inevitably)  
The most desirable properties necessarily command astonishingly high prices..., Tourism is an industry that has a necessarily close connection with governments.    

http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-cobuild/not%20necessarily  
 


So my summary is:
not necessarily = 0-99%
necessarily = 100%

yiayia

I think the biggest difference is that the way we regard the role of " Bollworms, however,are not necessarily developing resistance to the cotton's  insecticede. "

My point is that the argument is proceed by refuting one possible reason most obvious above and then stating another reason which seems most possible, not just saying that cotton's damage is caused by the increasing number of insects. So I weaken the argument by point out that the first point is right.

So if it is a boldface problem, what's the role of "Bollworms, however, are not necessarily developing resistance to the cotton’s insecticide." and "So it is likely that the cotton is simply being overwhelmed by corn-bred bollworms."?

-- by 会员 yiayia (2012/3/15 11:30:14)

I second yiayia in thinking and expressing in English, so I'll follow.
"So if it is a boldface problem ..."
I think you asked a great question!

First of all, regarding the meaning: I think that "not necessarily" means "not absolutely", i.e. 0%-99% (not 100%). By contrast, suri thinks that "not necessarily" means "no", i.e. 0%.

See here
http://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/lsat-cr-t9476.html
An organism does not necessarily belong to a class
--> while this choice seems to be speaking about all organisms and classes, the words "not necessarily" actually indicate that one example is sufficient.  i.e., "not necessarily" means that all we actually need is one counterexample to the statement.

Back to yiayia's golden question, what is the role of this sentence:
" Bollworms, however,are not necessarily developing resistance to the cotton's  insecticede. "

My take is that the authors are merely saying "The worms are not surely developing resistance. (We do not know whether they have developed or not, so let's simply forget about it)." In other words, the author DID consider the potential issue of developing resistance, BUT the author simply did not count this issue into his/her conclusion.

-- by 会员 babybearmm (2012/3/15 12:14:20)

Get it. I just focus too much on possible factor-resistance. But the argument wants to talk about the corn insects.

babybearmm

Hey yiayia,

You reminded me!

Just now I found the following (refer to the link above):
If you say that something is not necessarily the case, you mean that it may not be the case or is not always the case.
Back to this question, the author are saying, in this boldfaced sentence, that "the development of resistance is not always the case". The author then moves on to draw his/her conclusion that "the cause is simply that worms are too many".

In evaluating this argument, we need to know whether the development of resistance (an alternative cause) is the case. The question asked in Choice B helps us to get this information.

Get it. I just focus too much on possible factor-resistance. But the argument wants to talk about the corn insects.

-- by 会员 yiayia (2012/3/15 12:27:31)

Suri在奋斗

Hey yiayia,

You reminded me!

Just now I found the following (refer to the link above):
If you say that something is not necessarily the case, you mean that it may not be the case or is not always the case.
Back to this question, the author are saying, in this boldfaced sentence, that "the development of resistance is not always the case". The author then moves on to draw his/her conclusion that "the cause is simply that worms are too many".

In evaluating this argument, we need to know whether the development of resistance (an alternative cause) is the case. The question asked in Choice B helps us to get this information.

Get it. I just focus too much on possible factor-resistance. But the argument wants to talk about the corn insects.

-- by 会员 yiayia (2012/3/15 12:27:31)

-- by 会员 babybearmm (2012/3/15 12:36:30)

醒来看baby姐姐还有yiayia的，恩，明白啦，我对not necessary理解错了
possible factor-resistance~~~
恍然大悟的感觉O(∩_∩)O哈！

ainiAnnie

做完阅读老不想看解答。。。。这样不好不好。。。

Suri在奋斗

做完阅读老不想看解答。。。。这样不好不好。。。

-- by 会员 ainiAnnie (2012/3/15 15:32:37)

先自己再看一遍，画出逻辑简图，然后你去对答案看自己第二遍是不是正确的，然后看og的哈
我觉得og的主旨题的答案都讲的很好哇~~

Suri在奋斗

gwd 17套
sc 16/19    20,37，17
cr   6/9     4,10,31
rc   9/13    7,8,27,32

20. GWD26-Q20
In 1981 children in the United States spent an average of slightly less than two and a half hours a week doing household chores; by 1997 they had spent nearly six hours a week.

A.    chores; by 1997 they had spent nearly six hours a week
B.    chores; by 1997 that figure had grown to nearly six hours a week
C.    chores, whereas nearly six hours a week were spent in 1997
D.    chores, compared with a figure of nearly six hours a week in 1997
E.    chores, that figure growing to nearly six hours a week in 1997
选的是c，答案是B
B的时态问题，一上来就排除了呀

Suri在奋斗

37. GWD26-Q37
Sound can travel through water for enormous distances, prevented from dissipating its acoustic energy as a result of boundaries in the ocean created by water layers of different temperatures and densities.

A.    prevented from dissipating its acoustic energy as a result of
B.    prevented from having its acoustic energy dissipated by
C.    its acoustic energy prevented from dissipating by
D.    its acoustic energy prevented from being dissipated as a result of
E.    preventing its acoustic energy from dissipating by