The Olympic Games helped to keep peace among the pugnacious states of the Greek world in that a sacred truce was proclaimed during the festival's month.
51. The Olympic Games helped to keep peace among the pugnacious states of the Greek world in that a sacred truce was proclaimed during the festival's month.
(A) world in that a sacred truce was proclaimed during the festival's month
(B) world, proclaiming a sacred truce during the festival's month
(C) world when they proclaimed a sacred truce for the festival month
(D) world, for a sacred truce was proclaimed during the month of the festival
(E) world by proclamation of a sacred truce that was for the month of the festival
好纠结这道题目啊,为什么in that 不对呢? 另外,for后面真的可以直接加句子吗,我怎么觉得应该是for that?
in that和for的意思非常像,细微的差别是in that是在某一点上的原因,而for是简单的补充说明原因。
Eg:Tom and his brother are like each other in that they both have senses of humor. Tom和弟弟长得像,是因为一个点:他们的幽默感。所以in that在句子里常常会解释为:在于。
其外,in that的表达比for要稍微啰嗦一些,for表示原因是后面可以跟词组也可以跟句子。
好,这个差别非常细微,即使不知道也完全不要紧,因为gmat本来就不期望你知道他们的差别。那怎么办呢?很简单的办法是:找A和D还有什么差别? 发现A是 the festival's month,D是 the month of the festival,festival是没有生命的东西,明显A of B的结构比B's A更好,问题解决~
B不好的一个地方在于proclaim用作主动,OG的原话是:It is not clear who would be doing the proclaiming; a clause is preferable to a phrase here. OG说的并不是proclaim修饰谁不清楚,而是说proclaim这个动作是谁执行的未知。但明显不是The Olympic Games,因为Games不能proclaim(正式宣布),proclaim的执行者一般是人,而不是物。所以D把proclaimed用作被动,避免了这个问题。