求解一道VERBAL分册题 #23

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23. Consumers may not think of householdcleaning products to be hazardous substances, but many of them can beharmful to health, especially if they are used improperly.
A. Consumers may not think of householdcleaning products to be
B. Consumers may not think of householdcleaning products being
C. A consumer may not think of their householdcleaning products being
D. A consumer may not think of householdcleaning products as
E. Household cleaning products may not bethought of, by consumers, as


在D/E当中犹豫了很久，最后因为觉得用D的话，后面many of them中的them可能歧义指代hazardous substances，所以选择了E(虽然觉得E的passive是有点奇怪）。
但是正确答案是D。
去了beatgmat搜了下，大多数人都在纠结A/B/C为啥错。。。囧rz

kiwifoodtown

简单的说一下个人看法，可能不一定对。
D 选项 think of .......as....... 意思是把。。。。。看作。。。。从句意上看D选项比较合理。
然后，think of householdcleaning products as hazardous substances 中householdcleaning products= hazardous substances, 所以 many of them 指代得都为同一对象，所以不存在指代歧义。

E 选项 反而容易错误指代了consumers。而且被动语态在表达上不如主动。所以 E选项 不如D选项。

A B C 的错误都很明显，不用特别花时间纠结。

TerraceHo

除了ls的pronoun reference問題，補充idiom：
[beatgmat expert]
active -- think of X as Y
passive -- X is/are thought to be Y

另，manhattan也指出“They ARE THOUGHT OF BY her AS heroes.”，這樣的用法wrong。

雖然google會看到be thought of by somebody as something的使用，但貌似在GMAT看來，這樣的用法不恰當~

hope that helps~