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标题: OG 12 116 关于except的用法的请教 [打印本页]

作者: pinkhelicopter    时间: 2012-8-29 07:00     标题: OG 12 116 关于except的用法的请教

116. Mauritius was a British colony for almost 200 years,
excepting for the domains of administration and
teaching, the English language was never really
spoken on the island.
(A) excepting for
(B) except in
(C) but except in
(D) but excepting for
(E) with the exception of

答案为c。 我开始选了d,查了Longman之后,还是没有搞清楚except for和except in的区别。
附longman的解释exexcept 1
S2

W2
/ ɪkˈsept /


conjunction
, preposition

1 uused to introduce the only person, thing, action, fact, or situation about which a statement is not true :
The office is open every day except Sundays.


You can have any of the cakes except this one.

except for
Everyone went except for Scott and Dan.


She felt fine except for being a little tired.


except (that)
Clarissa could think of nothing to say except that she was so sorry.


except in/by/to etc
Staff are not permitted to make personal phone calls except in an emergency.


except when/where/if
Benson kept the studio locked except when he was working there.


except do something
She had nothing to do except spend money.


except to do something
He wouldn’t talk about work, except to say that he was busy.



2 used to give the reason why something was not done or did not happen except (that)
Liz would have run, except that she didn’t want to appear to be in a hurry.



3 spoken
used to mention a fact that makes what you have just said seem less true
except (that)
I have earrings just like those, except they’re blue.


A date book would make a great gift, except that a lot of people already have one.



Grammar
Do not say 'except of something' or 'except from something'.
Except is not used by itself to introduce a clause. Use unless or except when/where/if :
We won’t go unless you really want to (NOT except you really want to).
I cycle to work, except when it rains (NOT except it rains).

THESAURUS
except
used when saying that a statement does not include a particular person or thing. At the beginning of a sentence, you must use except for , not just except , before a noun
: The office is open every day except Sundays. | Except for a man walking his dog, the park was empty. | Most of the critics liked the play, except for one critic on the 'Los Angeles Times'. | Except for a few years in the early sixties and seventies, inflation has been a continuing feature of American life since World War II. | The area looks very much like the state of Iowa, except that it is surrounded by beautiful snow-covered mountains. | Except in an emergency, these doors must remain closed.

apart from/aside from
used when mentioning one or two things that do not fit the main thing that you are saying
: Aside from one or two minor errors, this is an excellent piece of research. | The films were all made in Hollywood, apart from one, which was made in the UK. | The weather was not very good in the first week. Apart from that, it was a good holiday.

excluding/not including
used when saying that something, especially a total number or amount, does not include a particular thing or person. Excluding is more formal than not including
: The software costs $49.95, not including tax. | Excluding students, the total number of unemployed rose from 2 million to 2.3 million.

with the exception of
formal

except for one particular person or thing
: Denmark has more wind turbines than any other place in the world, with the exception of California. | With the exception of skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer among women.

but
used especially after words such as nothing, all, any, anyone, everything or everyone when saying that something is the only thing, or someone is the only person
: There is nothing but trees, for mile after mile. | The garment covers everything but the eyes. | All but a few of her family died of the disease.

save
formal

used for mentioning the only person or thing which is not included in what you are saying
: Every man she had ever loved, save her father, was now dead.









作者: lonelyorchid    时间: 2012-8-29 21:07

抓狂ing.这题我也错了和LZ选的一样是D

请NN们帮忙...
作者: polaris16251    时间: 2012-8-30 06:27

except for: X can not balbal, except for Y. Y 是属于X范畴内的,及都是人类(雇员与某具体人)。例如,员工不能打电话,除非你是小头头。

except in: 除了在什么情况、环境下。X cannot blabla except in y。 y和x肯定不是一类东西。例如,你不能打电话,处分着火了。
作者: nobody910    时间: 2012-8-31 06:41

这道题目后面说the English language was never really spoken on

the island,那前后就应该合在一起理解为 the English language was

(never) spoken (except) in the domains of administration and

teaching. in the domains of administration and teaching.
作者: pinkhelicopter    时间: 2012-8-31 21:23

这个题我最新的感受是,把except当成介词,虽然except有连词的属性,但是连词后面是要接句子的。in是要和后面的domain连在一起的。
作者: felixroman    时间: 2012-9-5 06:43

我的最新感受是except for 可能會引起爭議, 於是GMAC 乾脆就改成excepting for 了
用google 搜一下會發現基本沒什麼句子用到excepting for
作者: kaneroy    时间: 2012-9-18 06:34

楼主稍稍被except的固定搭配搞昏头了。如果A选项是except for的话就没问题,但是用了现在分词所以被淘汰,D选项同样的问题,E选项则太过冗余,从来都是GMAT讨厌的选项。集中在BC选项来看,楼主只要选出哪个更好就行了,这个地方but仅仅是一个转折性的连词,事实上读完全文之后发现这个but是有必要的,“(虽然)是殖民地,但除了这两个领域之外,英语从来没有被使用过”这中间的转折是需要一个but的,所以C更好。至于BC选项中的in,在我看来并不是什么固定搭配,更多的是作为domains的先行介词。




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