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Q1:

According to a survey of graduating medical students conducted by the Association of American Medical Colleges, minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice in socioeconomically deprived areas.

 

1. minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice
2. minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than other graduates who plan on practicing
3. minority graduates are nearly four times as likely as other graduates to plan on practicing
4. it is nearly four times more likely that minority graduates rather than other graduates will plan to practice
5. it is nearly four times as likely for minority graduates than other graduates to plan to practice

answer is a,i chose c ,i want to know four times more likely , is this kind of expression oke?

victorto

同意C：C的倍数为4倍，而原题中的意思也应该是4倍。这里说“应该是四倍”，是因为这个第一选项语意模糊。原题中的more既可以修饰likely，也可以修饰four times。原题这句话有两种理解方式：

minority graduates are nearly four times （more likely）than are other graduates in planning to practice...

minority graduates are nearly four times （more likely than are）other graduates in planning to practice...

出题者本意应该是用more than迷惑考生一下，让你掉入4倍还是5倍的陷阱。而实际上，more likely than are本身就是语意含混，让读者连4倍还是5倍都闹不清，难道还没错吗？

再看选项(C)：

minority graduates are nearly four times as likely as other graduates to plan on practicing

as likely as就没有那种由more likely than are引起的歧意。因此我想“不改变出题原意”这个原则实际上是一个大大的悖论，宜慎用：原题本身就有可能是错的，而且是80％的可能是错的，在这个前提下，谁能保证它的“原意”是什么？我认为就是找“原意”也要在划线部分以外找“原意”，否则这个“原意”本身就建立在沙滩之上，谈何正确。GMAT白纸黑字写着要考生去掉模棱两可的选项，一切那些新东方自己摸索出来的不成文的规则都要服从这个“指代唯一，含意确定无误”原则。

bettyofarim

还是A更好些吧

good-will

似乎是c 的表达更为清晰些