183. (GWD-6-Q22)一个陷井题，错了N次，你会错吗？大家来讨论讨论!

isa0709

183.(GWD-6-Q22)Charles Lindbergh, for his attempt at a solo transatlantic flight, was very reluctant to have any extra weight on his plane, he therefore refused to carry even a pound of mail, despite being offered $1,000 to do so.

A.Charles Lindbergh, for his attempt at a solo transatlantic flight, was very reluctant to have any extra weight on his plane, he therefore

B.When Charles Lindbergh was attempting his solo transatlantic flight, being very reluctant to have any extra weight on his plane, he

C.Since he was very reluctant to carry any extra weight on his plane when he was attempting his solo transatlantic flight, so Charles Lindbergh

D.Being very reluctant to carry any extra weight on his plane when he attempted his solo transatlantic flight was the reason that Charles Lindbergh(E)

E.Very reluctant to have any extra weight on his plane when he attempted his solo transatlantic flight, Charles Lindbergh

我选的A，答案是E，可是形容词放句首竟然没有being，况且这里用being没有D选项中动名词做主语的嫌疑，为虾米不加being?

mslancaster

因为Being能省略？这道题我总想选D....

也是每次遇到都想选D...

A我觉得倒是可以通过therefore的词性排异掉。

mslancaster

而且动名词为啥不能做主语呢？

isa0709

不是动名词不能做主语，而是这里做了主语，逻辑意思不对。MM再看看D

mslancaster

我反复看了manhattan上面那个tim的解释，实在看不太明白。。。。。

http://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/gmatprep-charles-lindbergh-for-his-attempt-t9871.html

摘抄几句他关于D的话：

D is wrong for some very specific grammar reasons, and that’s what you should focus on..

I don't quite follow your question about D. The structure here is "X was the reason that Y" where X is a noun phrase and Y is a clause with its own subject. That's OK, but not best. "Money is the reason that most people work." "Jenny is the reason that I moved to Atlanta." Meh. Not wrong, but clumsy.

Further, if X is a very complicated noun phrase, especially one that starts with a gerund, the sentence will quickly become very difficult to understand. "Skiing the black-diamond telemark course with the team is the only reason I brought my racing gear." Wha...?


The grammar issue I alluded to with respect to D is the one that involves "being". Please understand that just as "being" is not always wrong just because it appears in a sentence, it is also not always right just because it is used as a subject. A good way to test whether "being" is correctly used as a subject is to ask yourself a question that the "being" phrase can answer:

cici陈0627

我也是觉得应该加being,一上来就把E给排除了。但是后来看你提供的manhattan论坛上的解释是说如果是表示某人或者某物的“性质或特点”什么的就不要加being,因为没有必要。所以推测D加being是多余的，E不加being是对的。