GWD 3-10

blue_sea826

Antarctica receives more solar radiation than does any other place on Earth, yet the temperatures are so cold and the ice cap is reflective, so that little polar ice melts during the summer; otherwise, the water levels of the oceans would rise 250 feet and engulf most of the world’s great cities.

Original sentence has following error:

"Xs are so cold and Y is (so) reflective , so that " - Unidiomatic expression. Correct usage is "so X that Y....."
    

A. is reflective, so that little polar ice melts during the summer; otherwise,

--- as mentioned earlier

B. is so reflective that little of the polar ice melts during the summer; were it to do so,

--- CORRECT. Proper usage of idiom : Xs are so cold and so Y is so reflective that . And also phrase "were it to do so" introduces hypothetical situation/uncertainty which is required in the second half of the whole sentence.
C. so reflective that little polar ice melts during the summer, or else

--- where is the main verb? "is" is missing before "so reflective....".There exists a verb "are" but that is a plural verb. Ice cap is singular and requires a singular verb.


D. reflective, so that little of the polar ice melts during the summer, or

--- This option includes errors mentioned in option(A) and (C)

E. reflects so that little of the polar ice melts during the summer; if it did

--- Unidiomatic expression as mentioned in (A)

huhuorbobo

为什么A不对呢？

前面有人说otherwise导致逻辑不对，可是我觉得otherwise正好说明如果不是little polar ice melts during the summer，那么the water levels would rise阿。逻辑正确阿。

而且the tempretures are so cold and the ice cap is reflective,so that little polar ice metls 有什么问题呢？？

redredsun

选B WERE IT TO DO SO=OTHERWISE 固定用法

尘未

1、并列句的省略。我们都知道并列句be动词相同可以省略。
但这里的第二个be是is 而非 are, 能算一样的来省略么？

可以。GWD里面有一题很经典，有人认为是独立主格，有人认为是省略了be动词。在那题的讨论帖里面，我举了几个例子来证明是省略的be动词的平行结构。具体的题目，我一点点都记不来了。 mm如果看GWD总结的时候，肯定会看到这一题的。

另外，如果时态不一样的be能否省略。关于这些省略能否举出例子？

这点我也不是很清楚，我觉得应该是不可以。

2、little 和 little of 的区别

看了几个回帖，发现大家都没有注意到这道题的奥妙。我的解题思路是这样的:这题划线后是虚拟语气，划线前是一般现在时，所以or else必错。需要一个分号和虚拟条件句，所以合适的选项是B, E。E有明显错误，可以排除。进一步我们来看B, 自然会怀疑it的指代。it应该指代polar ice, 所以没有逻辑错误。全句的意思是:......在夏天很少有极冰融化；如果它(指极冰)融化的话，会造成......因为B里面用了little of the polar ice, 核心词是the polar ice, 所以it指代the polar ice, 类似于A of B, it指代B. 而如果是little polar ice, little是修饰成分，所以it指代是little polar ice, 这样逻辑反而不对。我猜测ETS的出题思路是，先根据虚拟结构出题，发现答案里面有it指代的问题，所以把little polar ice改为little of the polar ice来明确指代。综上，首先，答案B没有逻辑错误。其次，没有逻辑错误是因为it指代polar ice。最后，要判断it指代的对象，必须了解little, little of的区别。

-- by 会员 rhod (2005/4/6 22:04:00)

超赞！！前辈厉害，这才是ETS正解

coolwave888

这题划线后是虚拟语气，划线前是一般现在时，所以or else必错。

但是 朗文中的这个例句和前辈所说正好矛盾！这如何解释呢？I had to defend myself or else he'd have killed me.

前面是一般过去，后面是虚拟 用 or else 链接 且没有分号！？

catherine66

GWD语法到处是争议 还有必要再往下做么？

lu80

看了这道题的讨论受益匪浅,感谢前人栽树!

原题如下:

Antarctica receives more solar radiation than does any other place on Earth, yet the temperatures are so cold and the ice cap is reflective, so that little polar ice melts during the summer; otherwise, the water levels of the oceans would rise 250 feet and engulf most of the world’s great cities.

A.is reflective, so that little polar ice melts during the summer; otherwise,

B.is so reflective that little of the polar ice melts during the summer; were it to do so,

C.so reflective that little polar ice melts during the summer, or else

D.reflective, so that little of the polar ice melts during the summer, or

E.reflects so that little of the polar ice melts during the summer; if it did


说一说自己的理解吧
1. 从应试的角度讲
逻辑意思第一,具体的讲本句需要用As are so .. and B is so ... that...结构.
对于so... that... 结构, 具体应用于As are so .. and B is so ... that...
首先,不会重复使用 so ... so that ..., 尤其是用于并列结构 As are so .. and B is so ... that..., 这样我们排除A,D,E
其次, As are so .. and B is so... 里is不能省.选B

2.作为延伸
这道题后半句考察了OG中的if X happened, Y would happen结构. 这样的话, 分号后面的were it to do so是 If it wre to do so的改写.
or else有人说只能表转折,不能用于表达出虚拟.或者,可能老外的字典里表虚拟不能用or else吧.
little of表示少量,可以修饰不可数和可数名词, little只能修饰不可数名词.


以上仅仅是总结或者来自做一些题后的经验,没有翻阅词典,也没有找到出处.

因此,仅供参考,欢迎讨论.

jcy123

支持C项，《白勇》的语法上提及so that结构中应后面一个的be应该省略，留着反而不对；而Manhattan语法上说引导虚拟语气应用if形式，were it to do so不正式，因此认为应选C

kittyjinglu

厉害！终于醒悟了！

lxskyfly

讨论得真好！顶上去~其实比较有感叹的是，从Google搜CD的时候发现，最好的解释最多回复的讨论帖都是2010年之前来的，之后的帖子更多是寥寥数人回复。自己没有混迹太久，不明真相。但也是真心希望CD的好风气能够一如往日~加油儿~