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In 1923,the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional a minimum wage for women and children in the District of Columbia,ruling that it was a form of pierce-fixing and,as such,an abridgement of the right of contract.

By a vote of 9 to 0, the Supreme Court awarded the Central Intelligence Agency broad discretionary powers enabling it to withhold from the public the identities of its sources of intelligence information.

Seldom more than 40 feet wide and 12 feet deep but running 363 miles across the rugged wilderness of upstate New York, the Erie Canal connected the Hudson River at Albany to the Great Lakes at Buffalo,providing the port of New York City with a direct waterlink to the heartland of the North American continent.

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OG11
逻辑关系才是根本，分词有时也作为重要迷惑选项！！

The recent surge in the number of airplane flights has clogged the nation's air-traffic control system, leading to a 55 percent increase in [url=]delays[/url][alan1]
at airports and prompting fear among some officials that safety is being compromised.

Using accounts of various ancient writers, scholars have painted a sketchy picture of the activities of an all-female cult that, perhaps as early as the sixth century B.C., worshipped a goddess known in Latin as Bona Dea,"the good goddess".

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[alan1]不是55percent more delays 也不是an increase of 55 percent in delays

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以下是关于with的几道题

[url=]193. (T-3-Q2)[/url][alan1]

As the honeybee’s stinger is heavily barbed, staying where it is inserted, this results in the act of stinging causing the bee to sustain a fatal injury.

A.
As the honeybee’s stinger is heavily barbed, staying where it is inserted, this results in the act of stinging causing

B.
As the heavily barbed stinger of the honeybee stays where it is inserted, with the result that the act of stinging causes

C.
The honeybee’s stinger, heavily barbed and staying where it is inserted, results in the fact that the act of stinging causes

D.
The heavily barbed stinger of the honeybee stays where it is inserted, and results in the act of stinging causing
(E)

E.
The honeybee’s stinger is heavily barbed and stays where it is inserted, with the result that the act of stinging causes

175. (GWD-9-Q3)

Because of wireless service costs plummeting in the last year, and as mobile phones are increasingly common, many people now using their mobile phones to make calls across a wide region at night and on weekends, when numerous wireless companies provide unlimited airtime for a relatively small monthly fee.

A.
Because of wireless service costs plummeting in the last year, and as mobile phones are increasingly common, many people

B.
As the cost of wireless service plummeted in the last year and as mobile phones became increasingly common, many people

C.
In the last year, with the cost of wireless service plummeting, and mobile phones have become increasingly common, there are many people

D.
With the cost of wireless service plummeting in the last year and mobile phones becoming increasingly common, many people are
(D)

E.
While the cost of wireless service has plummeted in the last year and mobile phones are increasingly common, many people are

The Anasazi settlements at Chaco Canyon were built on a spectacular scale, with more than 75 carefully engineered structures, of up to 600 rooms each,
connected by a complex regional system of roads. (of more than 75 carefully engineered structures of up to 600 rooms, each that had been )

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[alan1]逻辑意思才是根本啊！！

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Except for a concert performance that the composer himself staged in 1911, Scott Joplin's ragtime opera Treemonisha was not produced until 1972, sixty-one years after its completion.

(A) Except for a concert performance that the composer himself staged

(B) Except for a concert performance with the composer himself staging it

(C) Besides a concert performance being staged by the composer himself

(D) Excepting a concert performance that the composer himself staged

(E) With the exception of a concert performance with the staging done bythe composer himself

Bihar is India’s poorest state, with an annual per capita income of $111, lower than that of the most impoverished countries of the world.

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220. (GWD-24-8, OG12-[url=]86[/url][alan1] )

The results of the company's cost-cutting measures are evident in its profits, which increased five percent during the first three months of this year after it fell over the last two years.

A.
which increased five percent during the first three months of this year after it fell

B.
which had increased five percent during the first three months of this year after it had fallen

C.
which have increased five percent during the first three months of this year after falling

D.
with a five percent increase during the first three months of this year after falling
(C)

E.
with a five percent increase during the first three months of this year after having fallen

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[alan1]oa:c

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20. (25474-!-item-!-188;#058&002354)

The human nervous system and a telephone system superficially resemble each other, not only

because the former carries information in the form of electrical impulses and because all of its

neural pathways converge in the brain and spinal cord, which together form a kind of central

exchange.

(A) The human nervous system and a telephone system superficially resemble each other, not only

because the former carries

(B) The human nervous system and a telephone system bear a superficial resemblance because

they both carry

(C) The human nervous system [url=]bears a superficial resemblance to[/url][alan1] a telephone system both

because the former carries

(D) Superficially, a telephone system resembles the human nervous system both because they

carry

(E) There is a superficial resemblance between a telephone system and the human nervous system,

not only because they both carry

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[alan1]A bears a resemblance to B正确

A and B bear a resemblance错误

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同位语修饰的位置！

Plants are more efficient at acquiring carbon than are fungi, [url=]in the form of carbon dioxide[/url][alan1] , and converting it to energy-rich sugars.

(A) Plants are more efficient at acquiring carbon than are fungi,

(B) Plants are more efficient at acquiring carbon than fungi,

(C) Plants are more efficient than fungi at acquiring carbon,

(D) Plants, more efficient than fungi at acquiring carbon,

(E) Plants acquire carbon more effi ciently than fungi,

同位语修饰---海量例句

Yellow jackets number among the 900 or so species of the world's social wasps, wasps that live in a highly cooperative and organized society consisting almost entirely of females[url=]--[/url][alan2] the queen and her sterile female workers.

The World Wildlife Fund has declared that global warming, a phenomenon that most scientists agree is caused by human beings' burning of fossil fules, will create havoc among migratory birds by altering the environment in ways harmful to their habitats.

El Nino, the periodic abnormal warming of the sea surface off Peru, is a phenomenon in which changes in the ocean and atmosphere combine to allow the warm water that has accumulated in the western Pacific to flow back to the east.

Architects and stonemasons, the Maya built huge palace and temple clusters without the benefit of animal transport or the wheel.

An exceptionally literate people, [url=]Icelanders[/url][alan3] publish more books per capita than do the people of any other nation.

Scientists have observed large concentrations of heavy-metal deposits in theupper twenty centimeters of sediments from the Baltic Sea, findings consistent with the growth of industrial activity in the area

Floating in the waters of the equatorial Pacific, an array of buoys collects and transmits data on long term interactions between the ocean and the atmosphere, interactions that affect global climate.

GWD
Researchers in Germany have unearthed 400,000-year-old wooden spears from what appears to be an ancient lakeshore hunting ground, stunning [url=]evidence[/url][alan4] that human ancestors systematically hunted big game much earlier than believed.

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[alan1]同位语结构必须紧靠修饰对象，一般在修饰对象之后

[alan2]留意破折号的使用，此处为举例的作用

[alan3]这个和上面那句很相似

[alan4]不可数名词！！

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descend from, that…and that…平行结构

Australian embryologists have found evidence that suggests that the elephant is descended from an aquatic animal, and its trunk originally evolving as a kind of snorkel.

(A)[url=] that suggests that the elephant[/url][alan1] is descended from an aquatic animal, and its trunk originally

evolving

(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[url=] with[/url][alan2] its trunk originally

evolved

(D) to suggest that the elephant had descended from an aquatic animal and its trunk originally

evolved

(E) to suggest that the elephant [url=]is descended from[/url][alan3] an aquatic animal and that its trunk originally

evolved

参考一个类似的句子

The company announced that its profits declined much less in the second quarter than analysts had expected and that its business would improve in the second half of the year.

GWD

Researchers agreed that the study of new treatments for heart attack patients was extremely important but [url=]that[/url][alan4] more research was needed to determine that balloon angioplasty preceded with ultrasound was any better for heart attack patients than the balloon procedure by itself.

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[alan1]It is awkward to string together two relative clauses

[alan2]With can not be followed by an independent clause

[alan3]Is descended from &descended from 都是正确的

[alan4]GMAT貌似有这个癖好，连词后面的than都补出来！

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Thelonious Monk, who was a jazz pianist and composer, produced a body of work[url=] both[/url][alan1] rooted in the stride-piano tradition of Willie (The Lion) Smith and Duke Ellington, yet in many ways he stood apart from the mainstream jazz repertory.

(A) Thelonious Monk, who was a jazz pianist and composer, produced a body of work both rooted

(B) Thelonious Monk, the jazz pianist and composer, produced a body of work that was rooted both

(C) Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk, who produced a body of work rooted

(D) Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk produced a body of work that [url=]was rooted[/url][alan2]

(E) Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk produced a body of work rooted both

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[alan1]Both 具有迷惑性！！

[alan2]Idiom:be rooted in: ■(be rooted in)have as an origin or cause

(一般作 be rooted)establish deeply and firmly

Vegetarianism is rooted in the Indian culture

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In virtually all types of tissue in every animal species,dioxin induces the production of enzymes that are the [url=]organism’s trying[/url][alan1] to metabolize, or render harmless, the chemical that is irritating it.

(A) trying to metabolize, or render harmless, the chemical that is irritating it

(B) trying that it metabolize, or render harmless, the chemical irritant

(C) attempt to try to metabolize, or render harmless, such a chemical irritant

(D) attempt to try and metabolize, or render harmless, the chemical irritating it

(E) attempt to metabolize, or render harmless, the chemical irritant

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[alan1]Not prefered as compared to “attempt”