To meet the rapidly rising market demand for fish and seafood, suppliers are growing fish twice as fast as their natural growth rate, cutting their feed allotment by nearly half and raising them on special diets.
(A) their natural growth rate, cutting their feed allotment
(B) their natural growth rate, their feed allotment cut
(C) growing them naturally, cutting their feed allotment
(D) they grow naturally, cutting their feed allotment
(E) they grow naturally, with their feed allotment cut
1 如果是跟growth rate比较，则应该是：suppliers are growing fish at a rate twice as fast as their natural growth rate.
而此处并没有。twice as fast as前面是suppliers are growing fish，则后面对应的也应该是一个动作。
2 注意逻辑意思。they grow naturally和growing them naturally一个是自己长一个是别人养
3 raising them on special diets前面对应cutting their feed allotment
为什么twice as fast as前面是进行时后面是一般时：前面表示正在进行的动作，而后面只是为这个动作提供一个参照对象，只要表达出一般情况下的状态就行了。
多加体会
As fast as 前后比较的对象要对等。动词对应动词。
And前后平行，cutting对应raising
(C) 逻辑意思不正确,原句的意思是供应商养殖鱼类的生长速度和鱼类自然生产速度作比较,该选项中growing them和growing fish构成平行,将原句的意思更改为供应商养殖鱼类的生长速度和供应商自然养殖鱼类的速度做比较作者: Cassiopeia 时间: 2010-6-13 15:23
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这句话要多读，读通为止。
Unlike most severance packages, which require workers to stay until the last day scheduled to collect, workers at the automobile company are eligible for its severance package even if they find a new job before they are terminated.
(A) the last day scheduled to collect, workers at the automobile company are eligible for its severance package
(B) the last day they are scheduled to collect, workers are eligible for the automobile company's severance package
(C) their last scheduled day to collect, the automobile company offers its severance package to workers
(D) their last scheduled day in order to collect, the automobile company's severance package is available to workers
(E) the last day that they are scheduled to collect, the automobile company's severance package is available to workers
纠结选项：D E
E选项，the last day that they are scheduled to collect，sth be scheduled to collect意为“某物被预订在某时collect，如果说they指代workers，那么collect后面还应该跟上sth，即宾语。
Sth be scheduled to do
换一个角度看：
E中，that they are scheduled完全可以用the last scheduled day来替代。所以其他条件差不多，D更简洁
E的主要问题是they的指代不明确。that they are scheduled to collect修饰the last day，如果they指代packages，则to collect没有动作发出者，而且应该是be collected比较合理
如果指代workers，则collect没有宾语。所以说又有歧义又都不完整作者: Cassiopeia 时间: 2010-6-13 15:23
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The hognose snake puts on an impressive bluff, hissing and rearing back, broadens the flesh behind its head the way a cobra does, feigning repeated strikes, but, having no dangerous fangs and no venom, eventually, if its pursuer is not cowed by the performance, will fall over and play dead.
(A) broadens the flesh behind its head the way a cobra does, feigning repeated strikes, but, having no dangerous fangs and no venom,
(B) broadens the flesh behind its head the way a cobra does and feigns repeated strikes, but with no dangerous fangs and no venom,
(C) broadening the flesh behind its head the way a cobra does and feigning repeated strikes, but it has no dangerous fangs and no venom, and
(D) broadening the flesh behind its head the way a cobra does and feigns repeated strikes, but with no dangerous fangs and no venom, and
(E) broadening the flesh behind its head the way a cobra does, feigning repeated strikes, but with no dangerous fangs and no venom, and
The investigations of many psychologists and anthropologists support the generalization of there being little that is a significant difference in the underlying mental processes manifested by people from different cultures.
(A) of there being little that is a significant difference
(B) of there being little that is significantly different
(C) of little that is significantly different
(D) that there is little that is significantly different
(E) that there is little of significant differences
One report concludes that many schools do not have, or likely to have, enough computers to use them effectively.
(A) or
(B) nor
(C) or are
(D) nor are they
(E) nor are not
此处动词不同，前面是do，后面是are（搭配be likely to do）,所以动词不能省略，要补出。
读题要认真仔细！！！（错了很多遍）作者: Cassiopeia 时间: 2010-6-13 15:24
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The Sports Medicine Programs of the Olympic Training Center, a complex where final tryouts are held for athletes representing the United States in the Olympics, is geared toward enhancing athletes' performance and toward their preparation for international competition.
(A) is geared toward enhancing athletes' performance and toward their preparation
(B) is geared to enhance the performance of athletes and to prepare them
(C) are geared to enhance athletes' performance and their preparation
(D) are geared toward the enhancement of athletes' performance and toward preparing them
(E) are geared toward enhancing the performance of athletes and preparing them
这题分清主语之后用平行法则其实很容易。不该错。
The Sports Medicine Programs
另外preparation不能接enhance作者: Cassiopeia 时间: 2010-6-13 15:24
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The continental United States receives an average of 30 inches of precipitation a year; transpiration from soil and from plants returns approximately 21 of the 30 inches to the atmosphere, while the balance of 9 inches contributes to the flow of streams and rivers.
(A) transpiration from soil and from plants returns approximately 21 of the 30 inches to the atmosphere, while the balance of 9 inches contributes to the flow
(B) even though transpiration from soil and from plants returns approximately 21 of the 30 inches to the atmosphere, the remainder of 9 inches contribute to the flowing
(C) although transpiration from soil and from plants return approximately 21 of the 30 inches to the atmosphere, the balance of 9 inches contribute to the flowing
(D) with transpiration from soil and from plants to return approximately 21 inches to the atmosphere, the rest of the 9 inches contributes to the flow
(E) as transpiration from soil and from plants return approximately 21 of the 30 inches to the atmosphere, the rest of the 9 inches contribute to the flow
1 Transpiration用单数动词搭配：returns和contributes
2 the balance=the rest
3 flow本身可以做名词
另外the remainder of 9 inches和the rest of the 9 inches范围也错了作者: Cassiopeia 时间: 2010-6-13 15:25
48. (27067-!-item-!-188;#058&003096)
Whereas scientists, because of random fluctuations in the weather, cannot determine the transition from one season to the next by monitoring temperatures on a daily basis, so they cannot determine the onset of global warming by monitoring average annual temperatures.
(A) Whereas scientists
(B) Just as scientists
(C) Like scientists who
(D) Inasmuch as a scientist
(E) In the same way a scientist
Just as A do, so B do,表示类似关系。“就如同A……B……”作者: Cassiopeia 时间: 2010-6-13 15:26
54. (27343-!-item-!-188;#058&003156)
Unlike using spices for cooking, in medicinal usage they are taken in large quantities in order to treat particular maladies.
(A) Unlike using spices for cooking, in medicinal usage they are taken
(B) Unlike spices that are used in cooking, in using spices for medicine, they are taken
(C) Unlike cooking with spices, taking spices for medicinal use is done
(D) In cooking, small quantities of spices are used, whereas in medicinal usage spices are taken
(E) In cooking, the usage of spices is in small quantities, whereas in medicinal usage they are taken
C：Unlike/like只能连接名词的比较，即cooking这种动名词不能由like比较
且in large quantities错误修饰taking
B：in using spices for medicine既可以修饰前句，也可以修饰后句。
Whereas前后可以不必完全对称
错误点：平行对称作者: Cassiopeia 时间: 2010-6-13 15:29
64. (27947-!-item-!-188;#058&003452)
Recently documented examples of neurogenesis, the production of new brain cells, include the brain growing in mice when placed in a stimulating environment or neurons increasing in canaries that learn new songs.
(A) the brain growing in mice when placed in a stimulating environment or neurons increasing in canaries that
(B) mice whose brains grow when they are placed in a stimulating environment or canaries whose neurons increase when they
(C) mice's brains that grow when they are placed in a stimulating environment or canaries' neurons that increase when they
(D) the brain growth in mice when placed in a stimulating environment or the increase in canaries' neurons when they
(E) brain growth in mice that are placed in a stimulating environment or an increase in neurons in canaries that
有力排除点：
1 when 的使用。“在……的时候”。要警惕，很多时候都是不合适。
2 production是一个过程
3 grow有对应的名词形式growth，就不用growing
D的错误：when引导的从句错误修饰documented examples of neurogenesis。
修饰N要用that引导的定从，避免出现修饰错误。
从句的运用作者: Cassiopeia 时间: 2010-6-13 15:29
70. (28271-!-item-!-188;#058&003560)
It is unclear whether chimpanzees are unique among nonhuman species in their ability to learn behaviors from one another, or if, when other animals are studied in as much depth, similar patterns would be found.
(A) if, when other animals are studied in as much depth, similar patterns would be found
(B) if other animals were studied with as much depth they would exhibit similar patterns
(C) would similar patterns be found in other animals if they were studied in as much depth
(D) whether similar patterns would be exhibited in other animals that were studied with as much depth
(E) whether other animals would exhibit similar patterns if they were studied in as much depth
平行对称
It is unclear whether….or whether…
汉语和英语的差异。要用英语思维！
另外E用了虚拟语气。体会一下。作者: Cassiopeia 时间: 2010-6-13 15:29
81. (28921-!-item-!-188;#058&003760)
In the major cities of industrialized countries at the end of the nineteenth century, important public places such as theaters, restaurants, shops, and banks had installed electric lighting, but electricity was in less than one percent of homes, where lighting was still provided mainly by candles or gas.
(A) electricity was in less than one percent of homes, where lighting was still
(B) electricity was in less than one percent of homes and lighting still
(C) there were less than one percent of homes with electricity, where lighting was still being
(D) there was less than one percent of homes that had electricity, having lighting that was still
(E) less than one percent of homes had electricity, where lighting had still been
A study of food resources in the North Pacific between 1989 and 1996 revealed that creatures of the seabed were suffering from dwindling food supplies, possibly resulting from increasing sea surface temperatures during the same period.
(A) that creatures of the seabed were suffering from dwindling food supplies, possibly resulting from increasing
(B) that creatures of the seabed were suffering because food supplies were dwindling, possibly as a result of an increase in
(C) that creatures of the seabed were suffering because of food supplies, which were dwindling possibly as a result of increasing
(D) creatures of the seabed that were suffering from food supplies that were dwindling, possibly resulting from an increase in
(E) creatures of the seabed that were suffering because food supplies were dwindling, which possibly resulted from increasing
A与B比较：
A中，suffer from后面的宾语是food supplies，result form 的宾语是sea surface temperatures，但是文中要表达的落脚点应该在dwindling和increasing，把这两个作为形容词体现不出来对它们的强调。另外possibly resulting from有修饰dwindling food supplies的歧义。
而B就解决了这些问题。强调的重心放在了dwindling和increasing，正确
重要的逻辑考点：表示“原因”“结果”这种状态确定的意义，要用确定的名词，而不是表示动态的 ing。
考点: 逻辑表达（Logical Predication） 简洁有效（Rhetorical Construction）
1) 动词的现在分词作形容词,一般含有正在进行的意思
2) which/it 都不能指代整个句子
(A) sb. suffer from B,表示sb.遭受了B, B表示的是遭受的结果,因此使用dwindling不好,现在分词一般表示过程, 应该使用名词或过去分词表示结果; 同样increasing也不好, result from后面接事实,表示原因,应该用increased或者an increase来代替increasing
句子结构: A study… revealed that creatures… were suffering because…作者: Cassiopeia 时间: 2010-6-13 15:30
105. (30121-!-item-!-188;#058&004107)
Even though it was not illegal for the bank to share its customers' personal and financial information with an outside marketing company in return for a commission on sales, the state's attorney general accused the bank of engaging in deceptive business practices by failing to honor its promise to its customers to keep records private.
(A) by failing to honor its promise to its customers to keep
(B) by its failure of honoring its promise to its customers to keep
(C) in its failing to honor its promise to its customers of keeping
(D) because of its failure in honoring its promise to its customers in keeping
(E) because of its failure to honor its promise to its customers of keeping
1 By failing to ……方式状语，具体解释engaging in deceptive business practices。
2 failing比its failure 简洁
B: its failure of honoring没有failing to honor简洁
Promise to do/ promise that
动词比名词表达的意思更完整作者: Cassiopeia 时间: 2010-6-13 15:30
149. (32963-!-item-!-188;#058&006488)
Until Berta and Ernst Scharrer established the concept of neurosecretion in 1928, scientists believed that either cells secreted hormones, which made them endocrine cells and thus part of the endocrine system, or conducted electrical impulses, in which case they were nerve cells and thus part of the nervous system.
(A) either cells secreted hormones, which made them
(B) either cells secreted hormones, making them
(C) either cells secreted hormones and were
(D) cells either secreted hormones, in which case they were
(E) cells either secreted hormones, which made them
A recent United States Census Bureau report shows that there are more than three times as many households where the children and grandchildren are living in their grandparents' home as compared to households where the grandparents are living in their children's or grandchildren's home.
(A) as compared to households where the
(B) as there are households where the
(C) as those whose
(D) than compared to those where the
(E) than there are whose
More than X times as many A as B
前后都有there are，平行
as compared to搭配错误且as…as与compared to结构重复作者: Cassiopeia 时间: 2010-6-13 15:31
154. (33193-!-item-!-188;#058&006626)
Some patients who do not respond to therapies for depression may simply have received inadequate treatment, having, for example, been prescribed a drug at a dosage too low to be effective or having been taken off a drug too soon.
(A) having, for example, been prescribed a drug at a dosage too low to be effective or having been
(B) having, for example, a drug prescription that was ineffective because the dosage was too low, or being
(C) as, for example, having too low of a dosage of a prescribed drug for it to be effective, or being
(D) when they have, for example, been prescribed too low a drug dosage to be effective, or were
(E) for example, when they have a drug prescription with a dosage too low to be effective, or been
动名词可以用having
前后时态以及主被动都平行。作者: Cassiopeia 时间: 2010-6-13 15:31
163. (33705-!-item-!-188;#058&007028)
The British sociologist and activist Barbara Wootton once noted as a humorous example of income maldistribution that the elephant that gave rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo was earning annually exactly what she then earned as director of adult education for London.
(A) that the elephant that gave rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo was earning
(B) that the elephant, giving rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo, had been earning
(C) that there was an elephant giving rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo, and it earned
(D) the elephant that gave rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo and was earning
(E) the elephant giving rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo and that it earned
是否说明ing为非限定？不是
OG的解释应该这样理解：
有两种情况可在名词前使用定冠词ＴＨＥ：1) 前面提到过这个名词; 2) 名词后使用限定性定语从句-如本题
限定性定语从句中的THAT要做从句的形式主语,所以要使用这样的结构:
名词 + THAT + 谓语动词
结合大家的讨论，和朗文的解释。
在改错题中通常有下列情况应注意区分The 和 A/An 地使用
另外，B的时态也不对。没有indicator表明earning在文中的时间点已经停止了
后面接 of 表限定的
后面有限定性从句修饰的，如that,
后面接介词，如from,
后面接不定式to 表特定目的作者: Cassiopeia 时间: 2010-6-13 15:31
165. (33893-!-item-!-188;#058&007190)
Due to poaching and increased cultivation in their native habitats, researchers have determined that there are fewer than 100 Arabian leopards left in the wild, and that these leopards are thus many times as rare as China's giant pandas.
(A) Due to poaching and increased cultivation in their native habitats, researchers have determined that there are fewer than 100 Arabian leopards left in the wild, and that these leopards are thus many times as rare as
(B) Due to poaching and increased cultivation in their native habitats, there are fewer than 100 Arabian leopards left in the wild, researchers have determined, making them many times more rare than
(C) There are fewer than 100 Arabian leopards left in the wild due to poaching and increased cultivation in their native habitats, researchers have determined, which makes the leopards many times more rare compared to
(D) Researchers have determined that, because of being poached and increased cultivation in their native habitats, there are fewer than 100 Arabian leopards left in the wild, thus making them many more times as rare as
(E) Researchers have determined that, because of poaching and increased cultivation in their native habitats, there are fewer than 100 Arabian leopards left in the wild, and that these leopards are thus many times more rare than
Ing分词作状语一定要在没有修饰歧义的时候才能用。
另外原文中是平行的两句，就不要改成修饰关系
排除
A Due to修饰researchers，修饰对象错误
B making……修饰对象有歧义
C which不能指代句子
D because of 后面的成分太复杂。
E 正确。
注意Ing分词的修饰对象是否会造成歧义。放在插入语后，可以理解为是修饰插入语的主语
另外原文中researchers have determined后面有两个结果，正确选项也应该反映出两个结果。作者: Cassiopeia 时间: 2010-6-13 15:32
2. (24209-!-item-!-188;#058&001071)
In the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, the United States acquired 828,000 square miles for about four cents an acre, which more than doubled the country's size and that brought its western border within reach of the Pacific Ocean.
(A) In the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, the United States acquired 828,000 square miles for about four cents an acre, which more than doubled the country's size and that brought
(B) For about four cents an acre the United States acquired, in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, 828,000 square miles, more than doubling the country's size and it brought
(C) With the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the United States acquired 828,000 square miles for about four cents an acre, more than doubling its size and bringing
(D) The United States, in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, for about four cents an acre, acquired 828,000 square miles, more than doubling the country's size, bringing
(E) Acquiring 828,000 square miles in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, the United States bought it for about four cents an acre, more than doubling the country's size and bringing
With sth
With介词短语做方式状语，主语是the United States，谓语是acquired，并列的现在分词结构doubling and bringing作伴随状语修饰主句。
with在此处的意思是because of sth and as it happens, as a result of作者: Cassiopeia 时间: 2010-6-13 15:32
15. (25243-!-item-!-188;#058&002297)
In the mid-1920s the Hawthorne Works of the Western Electric Company was the scene of an intensive series of experiments that would investigate changes in working conditions as to their effects on workers' performance.
(A) that would investigate changes in working conditions as to their effects on workers' performance
(B) investigating the effects that changes in working conditions would have on workers' performance
(C) for investigating what the effects on workers' performance are that changes in working conditions would cause
(D) that investigated changes in working conditions' effects on workers' performance
(E) to investigate what the effects changes in working conditions would have on workers' performance
B
A中，their指代有歧义
D有歧义
注意E中“what the effect”是没有谓语的。一定要看清楚.另外表达修饰作用的时候，不定式不如分词。作者: Cassiopeia 时间: 2010-6-13 15:33
17. (25335-!-item-!-188;#058&002335)
The success of the program to eradicate smallpox has stimulated experts to pursue what they had not previously considered possible--better control, if not eradication, of the other infections such as measles and yaws.
(A) what they had not previously considered possible--better control, if not eradication, of the other infections such as
(B) what they had not previously considered a possibility--better control, if not eradication, of such infections like
(C) something they had not previously considered possible-better control, if not eradication, of such infections as
(D) something not considered a previous possibility--better control and perhaps eradication, of other infections such as
(E) the possibility of what they had not previously considered--better control and possibly eradication of infections like
能用名词代替名词性从句的，优先选名词。
这里不能用the other的原因：the other 是指“同类中的其他”而此处的smallpox和后面的Infections不属于同类，因为前者可以eradicate，而后面的只是better control。作者: Cassiopeia 时间: 2010-6-13 15:33
25. (25704-!-item-!-188;#058&002607)
There is a widespread belief in the United States and Western Europe that young people have a smaller commitment to work and a career than their parents and grandparents and that the source of the change lies in the collapse of the "work ethic."
(A) a smaller commitment to work and a career than their parents and grandparents
(B) less of a commitment to work and a career than their parents and grandparents
(C) a smaller commitment to work and a career than that of their parents and grandparents
(D) less of a commitment to work and a career than their parents and grandparents had
(E) a lessening of the commitment to work and a career that their parents and grandparents had
A的错误：young people have a smaller commitment to work and a career是句子，而their parents and grandparents是一个词组，二者不对等。
同理，C中，that of their parents and grandparents依旧是词组，不对等，只是形式更复杂。要快速的分辨出来
Most of the purported health benefits of tea comes from antioxidants--compounds also found in beta carotene, vitamin E, and vitamin C that inhibit the formation of plaque along the body's blood vessels.
(A) comes from antioxidants--compounds also found in beta carotene, vitamin E, and vitamin C that
(B) comes from antioxidants--compounds that are also found in beta carotene, vitamin E, and vitamin C, and they
(C) come from antioxidants--compounds also found in beta carotene, vitamin E, and vitamin C, and
(D) come from antioxidants--compounds that are also found in beta carotene, vitamin E, and vitamin C and that
(E) come from antioxidants--compounds also found in beta carotene, vitamin E, and vitamin C, and they
And 前后的内容一定要并列。
C的错误：found和inhibit不并列作者: Cassiopeia 时间: 2010-6-13 15:33
32. (26170-!-item-!-188;#058&003042)
The Chicago and Calumet Rivers originally flowed into the St. Lawrence by way of Lake Michigan, but having been redirected by constructing canals so that the water now empties into the Mississippi by way of the Illinois River.
(A) Rivers originally flowed into the St. Lawrence by way of Lake Michigan, but having been redirected by constructing
(B) Rivers had originally flowed into the St. Lawrence by way of Lake Michigan, but they have been redirected by constructing
(C) Rivers, which originally flowed into the St. Lawrence by way of Lake Michigan but have been redirected by the construction of
(D) Rivers, originally flowing into the St. Lawrence by way of Lake Michigan, but having been redirected by the construction of
(E) Rivers, originally flowing into the St. Lawrence by way of Lake Michigan, have been redirected through the construction of
Greatly influenced by the Protestant missionary Samuel Kirkland, the Oneida was the only one of the five-nation Iroquois League who sided with the colonists during the American Revolution.
(A) was the only one of the five-nation Iroquois League who sided
(B) was alone of the five-nation Iroquois League when they sided
(C) alone among the five nations of the Iroquois League sided
(D) were the only ones out of the five nations of the Iroquois League in siding
(E) only of the five-nation Iroquois League had sided
注意两点：
1 the Oneida为集合名词，应该接复数谓语动词
2 the Iroquois League是一个整体，应该用单数谓语动词
PS: only表示唯一，对应one，用单数作者: Cassiopeia 时间: 2010-6-13 15:34
58. (27510-!-item-!-188;#058&003569)
If current trends continue, by the year 2010 carbon emissions in the United States will soar to a level more than one-third higher than were those in 1990, according to official projections.
(A) will soar to a level more than one-third higher than were those
(B) will soar to a level more than one-third higher than that
(C) would soar to a level more than one-third higher than it was
(D) would soar to a level more than one-third higher than those
(E) would soar to a level more than one-third higher than they were
If A happens, B will happen.作者: Cassiopeia 时间: 2010-6-13 15:34
46. A study commissioned by the Department of Agriculture showed that if calves exercise and associated with other calves, they will require less medication and gain weight quicker than do those raised in confinement.
(A) associated with other calves, they will require less medication and gain weight quicker than do
(B) associated with other calves, they require less medication and gain weight quicker than
(C) associate with other calves, they required less medication and will gain weight quicker than do
(D) associate with other calves, they have required less medication and will gain weight more quickly than
do
(E) associate with other calves, they require less medication and gain weight more quickly than
Answer to Question 46
Choice E, the best answer, uses the adverbial phrase more quickly than to modify the verb phrase gain weight.
In A, B, and C, quicker than is incorrect because an adjective should not be used to modify a verb phrase. E is
also the only choice with consistent verb tenses. The first verb in the clauses introduced by showed that is
exercise. A and B incorrectly compound that present tense verb with a past tense verb, associated. C and D
correctly use associate, but C follows with the past tense required and D with the present perfect have
required. Both C and D incorrectly conclude with the future tense will gain.作者: Cassiopeia 时间: 2010-6-13 15:35
151. If Dr. Wade was right, any apparent connection of the eating of highly processed foods and excelling at sports is purely coincidental.
(A) If Dr. Wade was right, any apparent connection of the eating of
(B) Should Dr. Wade be right, any apparent connection of eating
(C) If Dr. Wade is right, any connection that is apparent between eating of
(D) If Dr. Wade is right, any apparent connection between eating
(E) Should Dr. Wade have been right, any connection apparent between eating
Answer to Question 151
D, the best choice, deals successfully with four issues. It uses a present indicative verb form in the conditional
clause. If Dr. Wade is right, in order to agree with the verb in the main clause, any connection
is...coincidental. It uses the idiomatic phrasing connection between x and y. It presents the coordinate
objects of the preposition between (eating ... and excelling ...) in parallel form. Finally, the adjective apparent
appears in front of its headnoun connection, not after. A, B, and E use incorrect verb forms in the conditional
clause. A and B use the unidiomatic connection of x and y. A and C violate parallelism with eating of. C and E
incorrectly place apparent after its headword connection.作者: Cassiopeia 时间: 2010-6-13 15:35
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In addition to her work on the Miocene hominid fossil record, Mary Leakey contributed to archaeology with her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and painstakingly documenting East African cave paintings.
(A) Leakey contributed to archaeology with her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and painstakingly documenting
(B) Leakey contributed to archaeology by her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and by painstakingly documenting
(C) Leakey was a contributor to archaeology with her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and with her painstaking documentation of
(D) Leakey's contributions to archaeology include her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and her painstaking documentation of
(E) Leakey's contributions to archaeology include her discovering the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and painstaking documentation of
名词要对应名词。
C：该选项采用了Mary Leakey was a contributor…with x and with y句型，没有明确Mary Leakey的贡献与x/y之间的关系，be a contributor所表达的意思与原句不同。比如说，I am a singer with afive-year old kid. 我是一个有个五岁小孩的歌手，但是有小孩和是歌手之间并没有直接联系。换到这个句子当中来，Mary Leakey was a contributor with a five-year old kid.同理成立，但是kid和contributor之间没有联系，并不是Mary有个五岁小孩所以就是贡献者。同理理解该选项的问题。相比之下，D选项直接明了的说，Mary Leakey的贡献就是她的发现以及对洞穴画的记录和描述，清晰直接的说出了句子内容之间的联系。所以，相比之下，C选项不如D作者: Cassiopeia 时间: 2010-6-13 15:35
90. (29271-!-item-!-188;#058&004232)
Diesel engines burn as much as 30 percent less fuel than gasoline engines of comparable size, as well as emitting far less carbon dioxide gas and far fewer of the other gases that have been implicated in global warming.
(A) of comparable size, as well as emitting far less carbon dioxide gas and far fewer of the other gases that have
(B) of comparable size, as well as emit far less carbon dioxide gas and far fewer of the other gases having
(C) of comparable size, and also they emit far fewer carbon dioxide and other gases that have
(D) that have a comparable size, and also they emit far less carbon dioxide gas and other gases that have
(E) that have a comparable size, as well as emitting far fewer carbon dioxide and other gases having
as well as doing something 位于逗号后，对主句的谓语动作做出补充，为正确的习语结构
本句使用了这样一种基本句型：A did one thing, as well as doing another thing. 这种句型属于 as well as 的一种使用方法，朗文给出的例句为：The organization gives help and support to people in need, as well as raising money for local charities.
There are hopeful signs that we are shifting away from our heavy reliance on fossil fuels: more than ten times as much energy is generated through wind power now than it was in 1990.
(A) generated through wind power now than it was
(B) generated through wind power now as it was
(C) generated through wind power now as was the case
(D) now generated through wind power as it was
(E) now generated through wind power than was the case
1 比较结构：as…as…（as一定会成对出现）
More……than
2 it/they精确指代前文中出现的内容。
3 as be the case作者: Cassiopeia 时间: 2010-6-13 15:36
100. (29731-!-item-!-188;#058&004378)
Patience Lovell Wright, whose traveling waxworks exhibit preceded Madame Tussaud's work by 30 years, became well known as much because of having an eccentric personality as for having skillfully rendered popular public figures in wax.
(A) well known as much because of having an eccentric personality as for having skillfully rendered popular public figures in wax
(B) well known as much for having an eccentric personality as for her skillful wax renderings of popular public figures
(C) well known as much because of her eccentric personality as she was for her skillful wax renderings of popular public figures
(D) as well known for having an eccentric personality as having skillfully rendered popular public figures in wax
(E) as well known for her eccentric personality as for her skillful wax renderings of popular public figures
1 because of doing 的搭配基本上都是错误的
2 as much for……as for……前后要完全对称。
as…as…引起介宾比较的用法可以有多种。以此句为例，介宾结构为 for A/B，句子既可以是：She became well known as much for A as for B; 也可以是She became as well known for A as for B. 在as…as提示的比较结构中，相比较的事物要求形式对称、内容平行
GMAT SC解题的精髓，在于选项之间的比较。在本题中，如果出现 became well known as much because … as for … 的选项，在语法没有错误的情况下，符合上述[1]所说的满足功能对称，因此有可能是正确的选项，考生不能仅凭because和for结构不平行而排除该选项。应该先保留该选项，再仔细辨别其他选项中是否有更好的――即功能、结构两层次都平行的选项。本题的E，即为功能、结构均平行，故最佳。关于“比较选项差别”这一GMAT改错题的重要方法，本题是最好的例子之一。作者: Cassiopeia 时间: 2010-6-13 15:37
OG204. In recent years cattle breeders have increasingly used crossbreeding, in part that their steers should acquire certain characteristics and partly because crossbreeding is said to provide hybrid vigor.
(A) in part that their steers should acquire certain characteristics
(B) in part for the acquisition of certain characteristics in their steers
(C) partly because of their steers acquiring certain characteristics
(D) partly because certain characteristics should be acquired by their steers
(E) partly to acquire certain characteristics in their steers
注意体会their steers should acquire certain characteristics 和 certain characteristics should be acquired by their steers所表达含义的差别前者是说要取得steer的某些characteristics，从E中可以更明确的看出这个意思。而后者是说steers要得到某些characteristics，但是不明确是steers的还是别的什么的。作者: Cassiopeia 时间: 2010-6-13 15:37
Answer to Question 204
Choice E is best; it best indicates purpose for crossbreeding-- partly to acquire. In A, in part that does not grammatically connect the underlined portion to the first part of the sentence (the independent clause). In both Aand B, in part is not parallel with and partly in the nonunderlined portion. Choice C causes a misreading, suggesting that the steers' acquisition has caused the crossbreeding. D awkwardly and illogically shifts to the passive voice: certain characteristics should be acquired by their steers; the steers, however, are not agents in the acquisition.
这句话中，partly……partly……中的内容就不是完全平行，而是逻辑平行。在一些句子长度长、难度高的句子中，平行结构只要满足功能、逻辑对称，可以不对结构做出严格的要求。如果功能对称或逻辑对称不能满足，即使满足了结构对称，也是错误的答案。作者: Cassiopeia 时间: 2010-6-13 15:38
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2001 proved to be the automaker's first losing year since 1992, when the company had lost $7.4 billion, which was primarily because of almost $7 billion in accounting charges.
(A) when the company had lost $7.4 billion, which was primarily because of
(B) when the company had lost $7.4 billion, primarily resulting from
(C) when the company lost $7.4 billion, primarily because of
(D) which is when the company lost $7.4 billion, and that was primarily because of
(E) which is when the company lost $7.4 billion, primarily resulting from
简洁有效（Rhetorical Construction）, 动词形式（Verb Form）
1) which is when… 这种接连两个连接词的情况，是错误的，应该直接使用when修饰年代。
2) 过去完成时的使用首先要有明确的时间点进行提示，第二要合理的体现出“已经完成”的含义。作者: Cassiopeia 时间: 2010-6-13 15:39
107. (30053-!-item-!-188;#058&004625)
Galileo did not invent the telescope, but on hearing, in 1609, that such an optical instrument had been made, he quickly built his own device from an organ pipe and spectacle lenses.
(A) Galileo did not invent the telescope, but on hearing, in 1609, that such an optical instrument had been made, he
(B) Galileo had not invented the telescope, but when he heard, in 1609, of such an optical instrument having been made,
(C) Galileo, even though he had not invented the telescope, on hearing, in 1609, that such an optical instrument had been made, he
(D) Even though Galileo did not invent the telescope, on hearing, in 1609, that such an optical instrument had been made,
(E) Even though Galileo did not invent the telescope, but when he heard, in 1609, of such an optical instrument being made, he
A. 正确，两个动词时态均使用正确。伽利略没有发明望远镜是个事实，所以本句的第一个动词invent，
适用一般过去时。如果使用过去完成时，则表示伽利略是在built his own device之前没有发明望
远镜，暗含在此之后可能发明了望远镜之意。这使得句子逻辑含义出现瑕疵，相比之下，一般过
去时更加准确。而望远镜在1609年这一过去的时间点之前，就已经被发明了，所以本句的第二
个动词made，适用过去完成时。作者: Cassiopeia 时间: 2010-6-13 15:39
110. (30191-!-item-!-188;#058&004698)
The ivory-billed woodpecker, once the largest woodpecker in North America at a striking 20 inches tall, has moved in and out of the extinct category, with scientists consistently unable to find solid proof for the bird to still exist.
(A) for the bird to still exist
(B) for the bird as still existing
(C) for the bird's continued existence
(D) that the bird still exists
(E) of the bird and its continued existence
Proof的用法：proof for sth/proof that
另外注意简洁作者: Cassiopeia 时间: 2010-6-13 15:40
126. (31217-!-item-!-188;#058&006093)
Because she knew many of the leaders of colonial America and the American Revolution personally, Mercy Otis Warren was continually at or near the center of political events from 1765 to 1789, a vantage point combining with her talent for writing to make her one of the most valuable historians of the era.
(A) a vantage point combining with her talent for writing to make
(B) a vantage point, when combined with her talent for writing, that made
(C) a vantage point that combined with her talent for writing, and it made
(D) and this vantage point, which combined with her talent for writing to make
(E) and this vantage point, combined with her talent for writing, made
A. to make表将来含义，而句子描述的是过去已经确定的事实，时态含义不符；combining应该为combined
在剩下两个选项进行比较时，应该仔细考虑它们之间的差别。如本题AE选项之间的比较，读者应考虑：a vantage point，是主动发出combining这个动作，还是被combined？
这个vantage point，是“将要”to make, 使得她成为重要的历史人物；还有这个句子陈述历史事实，这个vantage point在过去已经使得made她成为了重要的历史人物？
通过这两点考虑，我们并不难选出正确答案E。考生一定不可看到a vantage point that…这种结构，就不假思索的认为这种结构就一定是正确的。作者: Cassiopeia 时间: 2010-6-13 15:40
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A study published in the British Medical Journal showed that women who ate nuts more than five times a week were about one third less likely to suffer from coronary heart disease as those who ate no nuts at all.
(A) as those who ate
(B) as women who ate
(C) as those eating
(D) than women eating
(E) than were those who ate
A recently published report indicates that the salaries of teachers continue to lag far behind other college-educated professionals, because they make an average of nearly $8,000 a year less at the start of their careers and almost $24,000 less a year by the time they reach the age of 50.
(A) other college-educated professionals, because they make an average of nearly $8,000 a year less at the start of their careers and almost $24,000 less
(B) other college-educated professionals, by an average of nearly $8,000 a year at the start of their careers, to almost $24,000
(C) what other college-educated professionals are paid--making an average of nearly $8,000 a year less at the start of their careers and almost $24,000 less
(D) those of other college-educated professionals--by an average of nearly $8,000 a year at the start of their careers to almost $24,000 less
(E) those of other college-educated professionals--by an average of nearly $8,000 a year at the start of their careers, and by almost $24,000
区别DE
Lag：to move or develop more slowly than others.已经包含了减少的含义，再用less就重复了
而且$8,000和$24,000是平行的，既然一个不用Less，则另一个也不用作者: Cassiopeia 时间: 2010-6-13 15:41
139. (32103-!-item-!-188;#058&006640)
Taste buds are onion-shaped structures with between 50 and 100 taste cells, each of them has fingerlike projections poking through the opening located at the top of the taste bud called the taste pore.
(A) them has fingerlike projections poking through the opening located at the top of the taste bud called the taste pore
(B) them that have fingerlike projections that poke through an opening located at the top of the taste bud, which they call the taste pore
(C) which has fingerlike projections poking through the opening, called the taste pore, located at the top of the taste bud
(D) which having fingerlike projections that poke through an opening, which is called the taste pore, located at the top of the taste bud
(E) which have fingerlike projections that are poking through an opening located at the top of the taste bud called the taste pore
The ability of scientists to provide models of the atmosphere's complex responses to changing conditions, like seasonal and daily cycles or different planetary conjunctions, have become ever more accurate.
(A) The ability of scientists to provide models of the atmosphere's complex responses to changing conditions, like seasonal and daily cycles or different planetary conjunctions, have become ever more accurate.
(B) The ability of scientists has become ever more accurate in providing models of the atmosphere's complex responses to changing conditions, such as seasonal and daily cycles or different planetary conjunctions.
(C) Scientists have become able to provide ever more accurate models of the atmosphere's complex responses to such changing conditions as seasonal and daily cycles or different planetary conjunctions.
(D) Scientists have become ever more accurate in their ability for providing models of the atmosphere's complex responses to changing conditions, like seasonal and daily cycles or different planetary conjunctions.
(E) Scientists' ability to provide models of the atmosphere's complex responses to such changing conditions as seasonal and daily cycles or different planetary conjunctions have become ever more accurate.
The Kwakiutl recognized one social unit larger than the tribe--the confederacy, which was a cluster of loosely knit, informally related neighboring tribes who interacted with themselves more often than between other tribes.
(A) tribes who interacted with themselves more often than between
(B) tribes who interacted among each other more often than among
(C) tribes who interacted with one another more often than with
(D) tribes, interacting among each other more often than between
(E) tribes, interacting among one another more often than with
One another=each other
1 interact with
2more than前后应该平行。介词都是with作者: Cassiopeia 时间: 2010-6-13 15:42
147. (32567-!-item-!-188;#058&007187)
Australian embryologists have found evidence that suggests that the elephant is descended from an aquatic animal, and its trunk originally evolved as a kind of snorkel.
(A) that suggests that the elephant is descended from an aquatic animal, and its trunk originally evolved
(B) that has suggested the elephant descended from an aquatic animal, its trunk originally evolving
(C) suggesting that the elephant had descended from an aquatic animal with its trunk originally evolving
(D) to suggest that the elephant has descended from an aquatic animal and its trunk originally evolved
(E) to suggest that the elephant is descended from an aquatic animal and that its trunk originally evolved
此处suggest to do不表示未来情况，而是一种可接受的用法
分清时态！！！！！！！！！表达一般常理性的结论，用一般现在时作者: Cassiopeia 时间: 2010-6-13 15:44
150. (32705-!-item-!-188;#058&007266)
Hydrocarbons, with which fruit flies perfume themselves in species-specific blends, are known to be important in courtship, and apparently this assists flies that taste the hydrocarbons on prospective mates to distinguish their own species from that of others.
(A) and apparently this assists flies that taste the hydrocarbons on prospective mates to distinguish their own species from that of
(B) and apparently this assists flies when they taste the hydrocarbons on prospective mates in distinguishing their own species from those of
(C) which apparently assists flies that taste the hydrocarbons on prospective mates in being able to distinguish their own species from
(D) apparently assisting flies to taste the hydrocarbons on prospective mates to distinguish their own species from those of
(E) apparently assisting flies that taste the hydrocarbons on prospective mates in distinguishing their own species from
