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[url=]OG12-36[/url][alan1]

Dressed as a man and using the name Robert Shurtleff, Deborah Sampson, the fi rst woman to draw

a soldier’s pension, joined the Continental Army in 1782 at the age of 22, was injured three times, and was discharged in 1783 because she had become too ill to serve.

(A) 22, was injured three times, and was discharged in 1783 because she had become

(B) 22, was injured three times, while being discharged in 1783 because she had become

(C) 22 and was injured three times, and discharged in 1783, being

(D) 22, [url=]injured[/url][alan2] three times, and was discharged in 1783 because she was

(E) 22, having been injured three times and discharged in 1783, being

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[alan1]VERB1…,VERB2…,and VERB3… 三者并列只需一个and,误把第2个看做run-on sentence

[alan2]Needs to be in passive voice

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OG12-56 句子逻辑意思的考法：原句有逻辑错误！！

Many of the earliest known images of Hindu deities in India date from the time of the Kushan Empire,fashioned either from the spotted sandstone of Mathura or Gandharan grey schist.

(A) Empire, fashioned either from the spotted sandstone of Mathura or

(B) Empire, fashioned from either the spotted sandstone of Mathura or from

(C) Empire, either fashioned from the spotted sandstone of Mathura or

(D) Empire and either fashioned from the spotted sandstone of Mathura or from

(E) Empire [url=]and were[/url][alan1] fashioned either from the spotted sandstone of Mathura or from

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[alan1]修正句子逻辑意思错误，需要读懂句子

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OG12-43
but 后的平行

Laos has a land area about the same as Great Britain but only four million in population, where many are members of hill tribes ensconced in the virtually inaccessible mountain valleys of the north.

(A) about the same as Great Britain but only four million in population, where many

(B) of about the same size as Great Britain is, but in Laos there is a population of only four million,

and many

(C) that is about the same size as Great Britain’s land area, but in Laos with a population of only

four million people, many of them

(D)[url=] comparable to[/url][alan1] the size of Great Britain, [url=]but[/url][alan2] only four million in population, and many

(E) comparable to that of Great Britain but [url=]a population of only four million people[/url][alan3] , many of

whom

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[alan1]similar to

[alan2]隐含平行考点！！but后面的内容不平行，and many,
gives an undue emphasis on the later part of the sentence.

[alan3]注意population的表达方式，a population of…不是 …in population.

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OG12-131
：修饰语位置

Over 75 percent of the energy produced in France derives from nuclear power, while in Germany it is just over 33 percent.

(A) while in Germany it is just over 33 percent

(B) compared to Germany, which uses just over 33 percent

(C) whereas nuclear power accounts for just over 33 percent of the energy produced in Germany

(D) whereas just over 33 percent of the energy comes from nuclear power[url=] in Germany[/url][alan1]

(E) compared with the energy from nuclear power in Germany, where it is just over 33 percent

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[alan1]修饰energy的位置不对，产生歧义！！

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OG12-67
x would happen if y happened

Affording strategic proximity to the Strait of Gibraltar,Morocco was also of interest to the French throughout the first half of the twentieth century because they assumed that if they did not hold it, their grip on Algeria was always insecure.

(A) if they did not hold it, their grip on Algeria was always insecure

(B) without it their grip on Algeria would never be secure

(C) their grip on Algeria was not ever secure if they did not hold it

(D) without that, they could never be secure about their grip on Algeria

(E) never would their grip on Algeria be secure if they did not hold [url=]it[/url][alan1]

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[alan1]代词指代的问题，虽然5个选项都试图用it指代Morocco,这个前面出现了Algeria，所以错误，而B中Algeria出现在后，it指代清晰！！

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OG12-122
greater,more density, X will happen ,if Y happens

A wildlife expert predicts that the reintroduction of the caribou into northern Minnesota would fail if the density of the timber wolf population in that region is more numerous than one wolf for every 39 square miles.

(A) [url=]would[/url][alan1] fail if the density of the timber wolf population in that region is more numerous

(B) would fail [url=]provided[/url][alan2] the density of the timber wolf population in that region is [url=]more[/url][alan3]

(C) should fail if the timber wolf density in thatregion was greater

(D) will fail if the density of the timber wolf population in that region is greater

(E) will fail if the timber wolf density in that region were more numerous

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[alan1]限于虚拟语气！

[alan2]“if” is preferred. B usesthe pretentious and illogical word provided for if in a conditional clause after a negative idea

[alan3]应该是greater

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OG12-50
过去完成时,earlier in the year

According to some analysts, the gains in the stockmarket reflect growing confidence that the economy will avoid the recession that many had feared earlier in the year and instead come in for a “soft landing,” followed by a gradual increase in business activity.

(A) that the economy will avoid the recession that many had feared earlier in the year and [url=]instead[/url][alan1] come

(B) in the economy to avoid the recession, what many feared earlier in the year, rather to come

(C) in the economy’s ability to avoid the recession,something earlier in the year many had feared,and instead to come

(D) in the economy to avoid the recession many were fearing earlier in the year, and rather to come

(E) that the economy will avoid the recession thatwas feared earlier this year by many, with it instead coming

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[alan1]副词，没有连接句子的功能，拿掉不影响句意

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OG12-120
介词短语的位置！

A firm that specializes in the analysis of handwriting claims from a one-page writing sample that it can assess more than 300 personality traits, including enthusiasm, imagination, and ambition.

(A)[url=] from a one-page writing sample[/url][alan1] that it can assess

(B) from a one-page writing sample it has the ability of assessing

(C) the ability, from a one-page writing sample, of assessing

(D) to be able, from a one-page writing sample, to assess

(E) being able to assess, from a one-page writingsample

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[alan1]有歧义，claim from … that…

介词短语的位置要高度敏感

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OG12-98
长难句范例

Even though Clovis points, spear points with longitudinal grooves chipped onto their faces, have

been found all over North America, they are named for the New Mexico site where they were first discovered [url=]in 1932.[/url][alan1]

(A) Even though Clovis points, spear points with longitudinal grooves chipped onto[url=] their[/url][alan2] faces,

have been found all over North America, they are named for the New Mexico site where they

were first discovered in 1932.

(B) Although named for the New Mexico site where first discovered in 1932, Clovis points are spear points of longitudinal grooves chipped onto their faces and have been found all over North America.

(C) Named for the New Mexico site where they have been first discovered in 1932, Clovis points,

spear points [url=]of[/url][alan3] longitudinal grooves chipped onto [url=]the[/url][alan4] faces, have been found all over North America.

(D) Spear points with longitudinal grooves that are chipped onto the faces, Clovis points, even

though named for the New Mexico site [url=]where first discovered[/url][alan5] in 1932, but were found all over

North America.

(E) While Clovis points are spear points whose faces have longitudinal grooves chipped into them,

they have been found all over North America, and named for the New Mexico site where they

have been first discovered in 1932

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[alan1]明确的时间点，一般现在时！

[alan2]此题的关键，这里their在同位语结构中，指代不会发生任何歧义（只能指代这个结构中的词）

[alan3]细微的改动，很难发现。GMAT长句子会有很多细微的改动，考场上很难察觉，但是感觉别扭的一般是错误的

[alan4]细节改动

[alan5]细微的改动，把句子读出来，感觉别扭

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OG12-126
定语从句修饰名词性短语

The use of lie detectors is based on the assumption that lying produces emotional reactions in an individual that, in turn, create unconscious physiological responses.

(A) that, in turn, create unconscious physiological responses

(B) that creates unconscious physiological responses in turn

(C) creating, in turn, unconscious physiological responses

(D) to create, in turn, physiological responses that are unconscious

(E) [url=]who[/url][alan1] creates unconscious physiological responses in turn

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[alan1]这里一是逻辑关系，二是名词性短语的定语从句本来就该修饰主体词reactions。用who试图修饰individual是错误的