小兵张嘎的语法难题之二

小兵张嘎

1、
By the mid-seventeenth century, Amsterdam had built
a new town hall so large that only St. Peter’s in Rome,
the Escorial in Spain, and the Palazza Ducale in Venice
could rival it for scale or magnificence.

  (A) could rival it for
  (B) were the rivals of it in their
  (C) were its rival as to
  (D) could be its rivals in their
  (E) were rivaling its
请分析一下，多谢！


2、
The auto industry has experienced one of its most
  significant trends in the last 50 years, which is the
  migration of motorists from passenger cars to
  minivans, sport utility vehicles, and pickups.

  (A) The auto industry has experienced one of its
      most significant trends in the last 50 years,
      which is
  (B) Of the trends the auto industry experienced in
      the last 50 years has been one of the most
      significant.
  (C) In the last 50 years, one of the most significant
      trends that the auto industry has been experi-
      encing has been
  (D) One of the most significant trends that the auto
      industry has experienced in the last 50 years is
  (E) In the last 50 years, the auto industry experienced
      one of the most significant trends that it has
      had, that of

请问A错在哪儿？

3、
New techniques in thermal-scanning photography, a
   process that records radiation from surface areas,
   makes it possible to study the effects of calefaction,
   or warming, of a river in greater detail than ever
   before.

   (A) makes it possible to study the effects of calefac-
       tion, or warming, of a river in greater detail
       than ever before
   (B) make it possible to study, in greater detail, the
       effects of calefaction, or warming, of a river
       than ever before
   (C) have made it possible to study in greater detail
       than ever before the effects of calefaction, or
       warming, of a river
   (D) make possible the study of the effects of calefac-
       tion, or warming, of a river in greater detail
       than it ever was before
   (E) has made it more possible than ever before to
       study in greater detail the effects of calefaction,
       or warming, of a river
请问A错在哪儿？

brunhild

拙见:
1,从RIVAL的意义搭配及时态上首先排除C,E
   从简洁,有效上看,B不如D,D不如A,
2,A中WHICH指代了前面的句子,GMAT不充许
3,A中主谓不一致

山峰

gazi bro,

1. 基本 agree with brunhild bro,
2. 好题，which 在GMAT中通常只能就近指代名词（或短语），A无论从逻辑，语法来说都是错误的；
3. 插入语主谓一致，常考，注意小结。

good luck

大浪

1).  the context uses "could", so B,D,E are all wrong as they change the original mood.
2).  In the past 50 years have the modifying ambiguity, does it refer to trends or refer to the whole sentence?   The way to solve this issue is to put the In the past 50 years to the beginning of the whole sentence