princeton review manual的两道tricky questions

miaoyin_tx

Q 1

Now even directors of off-Broadway productions, desperate for actors who are talented, charistmatic, and aspiring more to a solid career in the theater than to the lucrative rewards and stardom proffered by movie moguls and studios, are turning to independent casting directors for guidance in assembling their casts.

A are talented, charistmatic, and aspiring

B  are talented, who have charistma, and who are aspiring

C have talented are charistmatic, and aspire

D are talented and have charistma, and whose aspirations are

E are talented, charistmatic, and who aspire

毫不犹豫的选了A，一看答案是E

Q 2

Scientists now suspect that imperial mammonths of the Pleistocene period were wiped out not by human predation, as were mammoths of earlier periods, but by a sudden and extreme change in climate.

A  as were mammoths of earlier periods

B like that in an ealier period

C as in ealier periods

D as were earlier periods

E like the mammoths in an earlier period

偶选C，但是A是正确答案。 Tricky, tricky...

题目来源princetonreview  GMAT manual

starthinker

I agree that Q2 should be A.

However, I don't think E in Q1 is right. Maybe E should be "are talented and charistmatic, and who aspire" rather than "are talented, charistmatic, and who aspire"?

jnlvo

Q1, 形容词并列, and可缺。

starthinker

Hi Jnlvo,

Can you summarize the conditions in which we can omit "and"?

I tried to search but did not find related topic yet. Thanks.

jnlvo

For parallelism, and is usually needed, but when it links two adjectives/ adjectival phrases, it could be omitted.

Adjectival parallel is exceptional. For example:

930. While some academicians believe that business ethics should be integrated into every business course, others say that students will take ethics seriously only if it would be taught as a separately required course.

(A) only if it would be taught as a separately required course

(B) only if it is taught as a separate, required course

(C) if it is taught only as a course required separately

(D) if it was taught only as a separate and required course（B）

(E) if it would only be taught as a required course, separately

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miaoyin_tx

请教jnlvo，第一题用形容词aspiring 和动词aspire有什么区别呢? Thanks a lot

流沙

我觉得正确答案没错呀，虽然我做错的可能性也很大。Q2中c用in不太好，和前面不一致

流沙

以下是引用miaoyin_tx在2004-9-20 12:25:00的发言：

请教jnlvo，第一题用形容词aspiring 和动词aspire有什么区别呢? Thanks a lot

我是觉得aspiring后面跟了一个复杂的结构，还是用从句比较好点

kenshin

Q1就是为了避免把talented, charistmatic的对象混淆为后面的一长串东西,所以要把aspire单列开来

携隐

Jnlvo,你说的只是名词前置修饰语的情况.没错名词前置修饰语语义相同时是可以用逗号隔开的,但不表示用在be动词后面也可以不用and.你有进一步的例子吗?

我只找到一个形容词并列的例子,这里是用了and的.OG155.

155. Federal authorities involved in the investigation have found the local witnesses are difficult to locate, reti­cent. and are suspicious of strangers.

(A)  the local witnesses are difficult to locate, reti­cent, and are

(B)   local witnesses to be difficult to locate, reticent, and are

(C)  that local witnesses are difficult to locate, reti­cent, and

(D)  local witnesses are difficult to locate and reti­cent, and they are

(E)   that local witnesses are difficult to locate and reticent, and they are

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