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wwwhahchn

205. Consumer advocate: it is generally true, at least in this state, that lawyers who advertise a specific service charge less for that service than lawyers who do not advertise. It is also true that each time restrictions on the advertising of legal services have been eliminated, the number of lawyers advertising their services has increased and legal costs to consumers have declined in consequence. However, eliminating the state requirement that legal advertisements must specify fees for specific services would almost certainly increase rather than further reduce consumer’s legal costs. Lawyers would no longer have an incentive to lower their fees when they begin advertising and if no longer required to specify fee arrangements, many lawyers who now advertise would increase their fees. In the consumer advocate’s argument, the two portions in boldface play which of the following roles?

(A) The first is a generalization that the consumer advocate accepts as true; the second is presented as a consequence that follows from the truth of that generalization.

(B) The first is a pattern of cause and effect that the consumer advocate argues will be repeated in the case at issue; the second acknowledges a circumstance in which that pattern would not hold.

(C) The first is pattern of cause and effect that the consumer advocate predicts will not hold in the case at issue; the second offers a consideration in support of that prediction.

(D) The first is evidence that the consumer advocate offers in support of a certain prediction; the second is that prediction.

(E) The first acknowledges a consideration that weighs against the main position that the consumer advocate defends; the second is that position.

我想问一下，B选项中The first is a pattern of cause and effect that the consumer advocate argues will be repeated in the case at issue，C选项中The first is pattern of cause and effect that the consumer advocate predicts will not hold in the case at issue，这两句话我怎么看都觉得不通，that引导的定语从句好像有两个谓语，B中argues和will be repeated，C中predicts和will not hold，怎么解释？

lawyer_1

The first is pattern of cause and effect that the consumer advocate predicts THAT will not hold in the case at issue。省略THAT的宾语从句。

lawyer_1

B相同

wwwhahchn

谢谢！大概明白句子的结构了。但是宾语从句中的that不是不能省略吗？

还原成完整的句子，是不是这样：The consumer advocate predicts that the pattern of cause and effect will not hold in the case at issue.

还有，这里的that the consumer advocate predicts ...  是修饰effect，还是cause and effect，还是pattern？

lawyer_1

1。宾语从句的THAT才是省略最多的。I THINK YOU ARE RIGHT就是省略了THAT

2。对

3。修饰PATTERN。即这种因果关系模式在有争议的CASE中不再存在。

wwwhahchn

非常感谢lawyer_1！！

是不是口语中省略that的情况较多，但是在GMAT语法中宾语从句省略that就一定错呢？