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标题: TT GWD-1-23 [打印本页]

作者: shiningpenny    时间: 2006-12-27 07:33     标题: TT GWD-1-23

Q23:

For the first time in the modern era, non-Hispanic Whites are officially a minority in California, which amounts to a little less than half the population of the state, down from nearly there-quarters only a decade ago.

 

  1. which amounts to a little less than half the population of the state, down from nearly three-quarters only a decade ago
  2. which amounts to a little less than half the population of the state, down from a decade ago, when it was nearly three-quarters
  3. and that amounts to a little less than half the population of the state, down from a decade ago, when they were nearly three-quarters
  4. amounting to a little less than half the population of the state, down from nearly three-quarters a decade ago
  5. amounting to a little less than half the population of the state, down from what it was a decade ago by nearly three-quarters

   Answer: D,MINE:A,

为何不用which从句修饰a minority?


作者: canadianvip    时间: 2006-12-27 20:59

which 就近修饰了california .
作者: shiningpenny    时间: 2006-12-30 20:31

在GMAT当中也有不少例子WHICH是跳跃修饰前面的中心词的啊,是否有其他原因?
作者: dbearwanger    时间: 2006-12-31 07:38

同意‘which 就近修饰了california’Answer: D


作者: ZHUGUICHU    时间: 2007-1-4 20:10

QUOTE:
在GMAT当中也有不少例子WHICH是跳跃修饰前面的中心词的啊,是否有其他原因?

 同问,应该怎样区分是就近修饰还是跳跃的修饰呢


作者: 卡通猫王    时间: 2007-1-17 20:56

ETS对于which 的用法相当活,就近修饰或是跳跃修饰的情况都有,这个已经有很多人讨论过了。我觉得这题单从语感上讲我选A,因为only 这个词的强调作用,其他选项都没有。
作者: 开若兰    时间: 2008-11-6 20:45

three-quarters a decade 应该是指四分之三个十年,如果放个 only 在其间,打乱了它的结构,所以我觉得 A 不对。




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