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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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

巨大的陷阱。千万要注意。
Others可以表示other species，所以千万不要以没有those of为理由排除！！！！！！
要注意其他的排除点。
1 assist with/in sth 或 assist in doing sth

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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

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145.        (32475-!-item-!-188;#058&007134)

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

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142.        (32337-!-item-!-188;#058&006899)

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.

注意修饰对象。想清楚：accurate应该修饰什么？

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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

1 each 后面接of them.还是单数.如果是they each，就是接复数
2 为了避免run on，要把两句独立的句子变为从句，方法就是把they 改为which
3 时态要合理
4 修饰对象要合理

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133.        (31827-!-item-!-188;#058&006534)

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

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132.        (31781-!-item-!-188;#058&006523)

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

关于什么时候可以省略相同的助动词：如果主语宾语都有，则不能省，否则会造成歧义，就如本题。如果宾语没有，那就可以省

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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。

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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