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The nineteenth-century chemist Humphry Davy presented the results of his early
experiments in his “Essay on Heat and Light,” a critique of all chemistry since Robert
Boyle as well as a vision of a new chemistry that Davy hoped to found.
A. a critique of all chemistry since Robert Boyle as well as a vision of a
B. a critique of all chemistry following Robert Boyle and also his envisioning of a
C. a critique of all chemistry after Robert Boyle and envisioning as well
D. critiquing all chemistry from Robert Boyle forward and also a vision of
E. critiquing all the chemistry done since Robert Boyle as well as his own
envisioning of

MINE A

ANS B

请指教

gmatgamester

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mba06

在這裡貼一次。

41題只能是C。舉例不能用like。大家不要在字面上理解commodity的意思。如果你在commodity市場上投過資﹐你就會知道 commodity是指某些特定商品﹐比如金﹐銀﹐銅﹐布倫特輕制原油﹐natural gas, 牛﹐玉米等東西。在 market裡可以進行期貨交易。也有些ETF可供交易﹐比如USO﹐GLD﹐SLV。建議大家看看這個網址就明白了。

http://money.cnn.com/data/commodities/index.html

這是cnn提供的每天部份commodity的交易價格。

16題我選了A。感覺上確實envision比vision好﹐但是vision 也可以指預見。A的平行看起來比B好﹐樓上也提到了his的問題。這題感覺有點難

罗马青年

各位XDJM以前的讨论共计11页，综合NN kencheng、斑竹Gonghao 的建议，本题答案应该为A：

概括各位NN分析，要点如下：

B的错误如下：

代词指代歧义：his 指代不清；

and also累赘:
            also在这里完全是redundant;

sb's doing sth的用法错误：his envisioning of 不如 a vision of；

以下为各位NN发言精华部分，节省大家看11页讨论帖的时间：

————————————————————————————

NN质疑B：

B. The ninetheenth-century chemist Humphry Davy presented the results of his early expreiments in his "Essay on Heat and Light", a critique of all chemistry following Robert Boyle and also his envisioning of a new chemistry that Davy hoped to found.

代词指代歧义：his--〉whose? So the first conspicuous flaw of B is ambiguity . Except for the ambiguity, if 'his' is HD's, it sounds ugly when we read 'his envisioning of a new chemistry that Davy hoped to found' because he should be in place of Davy; if RB's, the logic meaning turns rediculous, 'HD's book, a book which is the resuls of his experiments, is a critique and RB's evisioning, ' 'since' is a prep, so A is correct.

第一题一位老外学生指出B的一点根本错误，我认为很有道理，大家请看过来：

B is incorrect: HIS envisioning of a chemisty that DAVY hoped to find
                

某美国大学有一门课叫"History and Philosophy of Science Since Newton"，另一个网站上：‘A lively tour through six great developments in physics since
                Newton” 看来since 是可以得。

另外，看见了“a
                vision
                of
                a
                new cooperative America” “a
                vision
                of
                a
                new scientific publication system”，“... is a vision
                of
                a
                new world order that would make George Bush's head spin. It's a visionof a hemp-based economy.”

再说，既然b用了his, 未画线部分为何不用he?

16. The ninetheenth-century chemist Humphry Davy presented the results of his early expreiments in his "Essay on Heat and Light", a critique of all chemistry since Robert Boyle as well as a vision of a new chemistry that Davy hoped to found.

A. a critique of all chemistry since Robert Boyle as well as a vision of a B. a critique of all chemistry following Robert Boyle and also his envisioning of a

这题主要争议集中在A和B两个选项。首先想明确一下原句的意思："Essay on Heat and Light"既是对原有化学理论的批评又是对新理论的展望。（为了确认这点我特意用GOOGLE查了一下相关的背景知识，应该说的确是Davy而不是Boyle提出了新理论。）因此原题中的平行结构就应该是a critique of ...对a vision of ...或者his envisioning of。其次，ETS的出题原则是正确的选项应该是concise: simple but clear。不单符合语言习惯而且在结构和语言组织上要尽可能的简单。假设答案是B的话，如果把其中的also除去，与原来的B选项并没有任何语意上的不一致，这个also在这里完全是redundant。再次，接下去看his的作用。众所周知所有格是一种限定，那么在此有没有使用这种限定的必要呢？原文是“对原有化学理论的一种批评及对新理论的展望”，前后应该保持逻辑上的对称。既然B选项在前面使用得是a critique，那么在后面转而用his envisioning就显得不parallel了。第四，对since和following的比较。 since在此是明确的时间指示词表示自……以来，有延续的含意。而following是紧随着……，强调的是先后的顺序，与一段延续的时间概念仍有所区别。

因此如果要使B选项成为正确答案，仍然需要在efficiency方面有所改进，并且不能扭曲原文的含意。

以下是引用kencheng在2005-1-26 21:01:00的发言：
                            

首先，由于原句中已经出现过两次“his”并且都是指HD，正确答案中是否会出现象楼上所说第三个“his”反而指代RB的语言现象呢？如果是的话那么又如何解决misunderstanding的问题呢？

其次，如果认为是RB的envisioning，那么本句的结构便成为a critique of A and also B，从而使逻辑会变得相当的古怪：……对RB之后的化学理论和RB对一种新化学理论的展望的批评，而这种新理论又是HD自己所希望发现的。

16-坚持A，since可以做介词啊，为啥不能接名词？只是不常用罢了，但并不代表不用啊。再说了,OG213,和这是一模一样的哦，

OG11反复说过很多次，one's + 分词
                一定错, sb's doing sth的用法被og批判过很多次了envisioning 完全可以用vision这个名词来替代

B不可能对，其次his也有歧义

显然，a critique和a vision是并列的，都是前面"Essay on Heat and Light"的同位语。

但我认为A更合理；B的 and also连接两个名词我读起来觉得不好，没有also会更顺一些，另外his envisioning确实不妥。

前面对A的否定，主要在vision的使用上。不过可以google到如下的句子，"Even if this were the case, I doubt that his vision of new chemistry was limited to the. alchemical theory of composition. "  显然，A中的那种用法是正确的。不知道谁能查到下面这篇文章，可能能看到原句。

The Analytic Ideal of Chemical Elements: Robert Boyle and the French Didactic Tradition of Chemistry
Mi Gyung Kim a1
a1 Department of History, North Carolina
                    State
                    University

B. The ninetheenth-century chemist Humphry Davy presented the results of his early expreiments in his "Essay on Heat and Light", a critique of all chemistry following Robert Boyle and also his envisioning of a new chemistry that Davy hoped to found.

代词指代歧义：his--〉whose? So the first conspicuous flaw of B is ambiguity . Except for the ambiguity, if 'his' is HD's, it sounds ugly when we read 'his envisioning of a new chemistry that Davy hoped to found' because he should be in place of Davy; if RB's, the logic meaning turns rediculous, 'HD's book, a book which is the resuls of his experiments, is a critique and RB's evisioning, ' 'since' is a prep, so A is correct.

第一题一位老外学生指出B的一点根本错误，我认为很有道理，大家请看过来：

B is incorrect: HIS envisioning of a chemisty that DAVY hoped to find
        

某美国大学有一门课叫"History and Philosophy of Science Since Newton"，另一个网站上：‘A lively tour through six great developments in physics since
        Newton” 看来since 是可以得。

另外，看见了“a
        vision
        of
        a
        new cooperative America” “a
        vision
        of
        a
        new scientific publication system”，“... is a vision
        of
        a
        new world order that would make George Bush's head spin. It's a visionof a hemp-based economy.”

再说，既然b用了his, 未画线部分为何不用he?

16. The ninetheenth-century chemist Humphry Davy presented the results of his early expreiments in his "Essay on Heat and Light", a critique of all chemistry since Robert Boyle as well as a vision of a new chemistry that Davy hoped to found.

A. a critique of all chemistry since Robert Boyle as well as a vision of a B. a critique of all chemistry following Robert Boyle and also his envisioning of a

这题主要争议集中在A和B两个选项。首先想明确一下原句的意思："Essay on Heat and Light"既是对原有化学理论的批评又是对新理论的展望。（为了确认这点我特意用GOOGLE查了一下相关的背景知识，应该说的确是Davy而不是Boyle提出了新理论。）因此原题中的平行结构就应该是a critique of ...对a vision of ...或者his envisioning of。其次，ETS的出题原则是正确的选项应该是concise: simple but clear。不单符合语言习惯而且在结构和语言组织上要尽可能的简单。假设答案是B的话，如果把其中的also除去，与原来的B选项并没有任何语意上的不一致，这个also在这里完全是redundant。再次，接下去看his的作用。众所周知所有格是一种限定，那么在此有没有使用这种限定的必要呢？原文是“对原有化学理论的一种批评及对新理论的展望”，前后应该保持逻辑上的对称。既然B选项在前面使用得是a critique，那么在后面转而用his envisioning就显得不parallel了。第四，对since和following的比较。 since在此是明确的时间指示词表示自……以来，有延续的含意。而following是紧随着……，强调的是先后的顺序，与一段延续的时间概念仍有所区别。

因此如果要使B选项成为正确答案，仍然需要在efficiency方面有所改进，并且不能扭曲原文的含意。

以下是引用kencheng在2005-1-26 21:01:00的发言：
                    

首先，由于原句中已经出现过两次“his”并且都是指HD，正确答案中是否会出现象楼上所说第三个“his”反而指代RB的语言现象呢？如果是的话那么又如何解决misunderstanding的问题呢？

其次，如果认为是RB的envisioning，那么本句的结构便成为a critique of A and also B，从而使逻辑会变得相当的古怪：……对RB之后的化学理论和RB对一种新化学理论的展望的批评，而这种新理论又是HD自己所希望发现的。

16-坚持A，since可以做介词啊，为啥不能接名词？只是不常用罢了，但并不代表不用啊。再说了,OG213,和这是一模一样的哦，

OG11反复说过很多次，one's + 分词
        一定错, sb's doing sth的用法被og批判过很多次了envisioning 完全可以用vision这个名词来替代

B不可能对，其次his也有歧义

显然，a critique和a vision是并列的，都是前面"Essay on Heat and Light"的同位语。

但我认为A更合理；B的 and also连接两个名词我读起来觉得不好，没有also会更顺一些，另外his envisioning确实不妥。

前面对A的否定，主要在vision的使用上。不过可以google到如下的句子，"Even if this were the case, I doubt that his vision of new chemistry was limited to the. alchemical theory of composition. "  显然，A中的那种用法是正确的。不知道谁能查到下面这篇文章，可能能看到原句。

The Analytic Ideal of Chemical Elements: Robert Boyle and the French Didactic Tradition of Chemistry
Mi Gyung Kim a1
a1 Department of History, North Carolina
            State
            University