求助求助～～～！！！！OG13 SC48

rex045

48. It is called a sea, but the landlocked Caspian is actually the largest lake on Earth, which covers more than four times the surface area of its closest rival in size, North America's Lake Superior.

A. It is called a sea, but the landlocked Caspian is actually the largest lake on Earth, which covers
B. Although it is called a sea, actually the landlocked Caspian is the largest lake on Earth, which covers
C. Though called a sea, the landlocked Caspian is actually the largest lake on Earth, covering
D. Though called a sea but it actually is the largest lake on Earth, the landlocked Caspian covers
E. Despite being called a sea, the largest lake on Earth is actually the landlocked Caspian, covering

这里E选项给出的解释是 Despite being called a sea indicates, somewhat illogically, that the largest lake being called a sea would lead one to expect it not to be the Caspian. This makes little sense, esp. to those who are familiar with the name Caspian Sea.

这个解释是什么意思啊？？

danyuchn

這裡是gmat常考的「句意斷裂」型錯誤。
原句是it (Caspian) is called a sea
但是E選項卻隔了一層，變成largest lake on Earth is called a sea
後面才說largest lake is Caspian

這就像是若原句說a -> b
結果卻改成c -> a   c -> b
讓原句中a與b之間的直接關係斷裂。
這就是gmat所認定的「句意扭曲」

記住，就算a選項因為文法錯誤被刪去，
只要a選項沒有明顯常理上的錯誤，
在做兩個選項間的最後抉擇（文法結構、冗長精簡都不相上下）時，
要選最接近a選項（原句）文意的選項。

Dustin

yakev6

我就想问问，though called a sea 和 despite being called a sea 在意义上有啥区别啊？不都是表被动，那还要being干嘛？这个being真是很困扰我啊。。。。。。。。。。

-- by 会员 Summer婵 (2012/8/28 16:41:58)

亲。。。本身这个being就是多余呀，应该是是不要的

-- by 会员 sisichen666 (2012/10/13 16:48:21)

不多余


despite后面只能加名词，called是过去分词，不能做名词


being called 形成了一个simple gerund，这是才是despite 的合理用法


就像OG12的一题正确句子...being heavily commiited 才能当名词做主语而不是heavily committed这个过去分词作主语，我记得的past participle是不能做noun的，这部分记忆有点模糊


有木有人further clarify？

-- by 会员 DUKB24 (2012/10/13 18:23:43)

顶dd
同意being这里表被动gerund。
我想说的是这里despite犯了misplaced modifier的错误。
despite 应该修饰的是Caspian，而紧跟修饰语的却是the largest lake.
改变含义且不符合逻辑，“尽管最大的湖被称作是海，最大的湖是Caspian”
这也就是OG说的：Despite being called a sea indicates, somewhat illogically, that the largest lake being called a sea would lead one to expect it not to be the Caspian.

jason_jufe

A: which 修饰the earth 没有正确表达句子原意。
B：which修饰问题
C：缺少being，句子没有完整表达意思。
D：句子结构很redundant，though。。。but。。同时存在
E：相对其他选项来说，比较准确。就像OG里说的，虽然这样表达在某种程度上逻辑表达不够严谨，但对那些非常了解Caspian Sea的美国人来说，这种说法也是行得通的。

naryi

GMAT中规定，which是紧跟所修饰的名词，我们要表示的是Caspian Sea cover（形式再判断）。A B的which从句修饰的是earth。D中though和but不能同时出现 E being错误 选C

curtis0063

原則上要選 Being 時，要確認其他選項 100% 錯，不然有這個字出現 90%以上為錯，尤其是當 present participle 用幾乎必錯！

recksic

这里我也想了蛮久，我是这样理解的：一般来说前面用despite意味着后面会出现句意转折，具体到这个题，转折应该出现在以the largest lake为主语的句子主干里，这就是OG解释里说的lead one to expect it not to be the Caspian啦

superbat28

应该是although, though一般会跟转折，而despite后面往往不是转折意味吧。

recksic

这个就见仁见智了，我觉得不似although那么强烈，但还是有.
在线词典上查到的解释供参考：
You use despite to introduce a fact which makes the other part of the sentence surprising.

recksic

OG13，SC，第74题的D项的解释里说：
Despite and although are very close in meaning.

chenyou

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