GMAT考试-语法总结（二）Prep错题集

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1.        (24465-!-item-!-188;#058&000982)

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

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13.        (25163-!-item-!-188;#058&001734)
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

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20.        (25635-!-item-!-188;#058&002069)

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

难点：多重动作如何判断平行/修饰关系。
排除法：
A：如果broadens和puts平行，则需要and连接
B：eventually副词不能做连词用，前面需要and。
C：正确
D：broadening 和feigns不平行
E：broadening 和feigning需要and连接

复杂句子结构的完整性

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26.        (25911-!-item-!-188;#058&002160)

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

看到little和significant(adj和adv的意思有区别)要特别小心
纠结：DE
关键：significantly和significant的区别。
      Significantly：重要的
      significant：重要的；意义重大的
意义准确性，减少误解。
E另一个错误:little of修饰不可数名词，与differences不配。意义也不配。

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37.        (26417-!-item-!-188;#058&002629)

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）

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39.        (26509-!-item-!-188;#058&002648)

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

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46.        (26975-!-item-!-188;#058&003041)
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

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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……”

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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

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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