请教两题,哪为大牛帮忙!

LES

excite365，请把题目号标注一下好吗？谢谢！

agnesqin

我也觉得第二题的答案是C呀，A 选项的increasingly的位置应该是错的。

lip00ff2002

以下是引用agnesqin在2004-10-11 23:07:00的发言：
我也觉得第二题的答案是C呀，A 选项的increasingly的位置应该是错的。

no matter what you think is correct or incorrect grammatically, if ETS says it is correct, it is.

So we have to crack ETS based on their rules.

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hougang

As U.S. nuclear attack submarines prowl their familiar haunts deep within the oceans of the world these days, they increasingly are engaged in missions far different from the tasks for which they were built and for which their crews were trained over the last forty years.

(A) they increasingly are engaged in missions far different from the tasks for which they were built

(B) the missions they increasingly engage in are far different than the tasks they were built for

(C) they engage increasingly in missions that differ significantly from the tasks they were built for

(D) the missions they engage in are increasingly different than the tasks for which they were built（A）

(E) they increasingly engage in missions far different than the tasks for which they were built

我想知道e为什么错误？谢谢

JerryGuan

以下是引用hougang在2004-11-10 19:41:00的发言：

As U.S. nuclear attack submarines prowl their familiar haunts deep within the oceans of the world these days, they increasingly are engaged in missions far different from the tasks for which they were built and for which their crews were trained over the last forty years.

(A) they increasingly are engaged in missions far different from the tasks for which they were built

(B) the missions they increasingly engage in are far different than the tasks they were built for

(C) they engage increasingly in missions that differ significantly from the tasks they were built for

(D) the missions they engage in are increasingly different than the tasks for which they were built（A）

(E) they increasingly engage in missions far different than the tasks for which they were built

我想知道e为什么错误？谢谢

错在了engage, 而different than 则不是致命错误

查了两本词典，总结出：

engage in——————》 be busy doing  从事，忙于

be engageg in ————》 be involved in ...卷入

different than —————》美国用法（美国人不像英国人那样工整），than后不可以接介词，只能接名词。

仅供参考！

hougang

jerryguan 斑竹，你是不是认为

美军应该是‘卷入’了。。。，而不是‘忙于’。。。

所以觉得e答案是错误的。

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JerryGuan

仔细考虑了一下。
我还是要选A
BCD有明显的并列和重心的错误，先不考虑，单考虑E和A
A确实有12楼的MM所说的副词位置的嫌疑，我知道系表结构中的副词要放在系动词后面，但被动式的副词，我目前还没有搞清楚，还望大牛指点。

E中的different than 则不可接受，是美国用法；因为ETS出的题是给全世界人考的，不是只给美国人考的，我想他还不至于要在全世界英语国家来推行他们的语言吧，再说出题者也会来自各个国家的教授学者。

再来看engage in和 be engageg in 我想，本题的意思应该是：
nuclear attack submarines 原来的使命不是现在的任务，而是……，所以，我感觉它应该是被别人指使着做了现在的工作,而engage in则有主动去忙于什么事儿，未能突出它是被指使的意思；后一分句的被动式和前一个分句作了一个意思上的连贯，强调了内在的意思；个人觉得这里的as不仅有“当……时候”的意思，也有“对比”的含义。

as 对比含义用法举例：
http://forum.chasedream.com/dispbbs.asp?BoardID=23&ID=42558

There are no legal limits, as there are for cod and haddock, on the size of the monkfish that can be caught, a circumstance that contributes to their depletion through overfishing.

A.  There are no legal limits, as there are for cod and haddock, on the size of the monkfish that can be caught, a circumstance that contributes to their depletion through overfishing

B. There are no legal limits on the size of monkfish that can be caught, unlike cod or haddock, a circumstance that contributes to depleting them because they are being overfished.

C. There are legal limits on the size of cod and haddock that can be caught, but not for monkfish, which contributes to its depletion through overfishing.

D. Unlike cod and haddock, there are no legal size limits on catching monkfish, which contributes to its depletion by being overfished.

E.  Unlike catching cod and haddock, there are no legal size limits on catching monkfish, contributing to their depletion because they are overfished.

rhod

As U.S. nuclear attack submarines prowl their familiar haunts deep within the oceans of the world these days, they increasingly are engaged in missions far different from the tasks for which they were built and for which their crews were trained over the last forty years.

(A) they increasingly are engaged in missions far different from the tasks for which they were built

(B) the missions they increasingly engage in are far different than the tasks they were built for

(C) they engage increasingly in missions that differ significantly from the tasks they were built for

(D) the missions they engage in are increasingly different than the tasks for which they were built（A）

(E) they increasingly engage in missions far different than the tasks for which they were built

这是我的解题思路:

根据different from的用法，排除B, D, E. 根据划线后的and，判断前文应该还有一个for which. 所以选A.

注: ETS不认可different than. 金山帮不上忙。

david_348

increasingly的位置，在gmat中，位于be动词前是允许的；一般语法规则中adv动前be后的通则不适用；

参见：大全section b－17中never位置：

During the first nine months of 1979, textbook publishers incurred substantial costs for creating products that, due to a decline in public funding for instructional material, never were sold.

(A) funding for instructional material, never were

(B) funding for instructional material, never was

(C) funding, the instructional material, was never

(D) funding for instructional material, the products were never（A）

(E) funding, they were never