用中文理解一定错的GMAT修辞考点 GMAT修辞中一个考点就是要注意： 强调副词：Intensifying Degree Adverbs (例如：only, nearly, almost, barely, merely) 放在动词 或 分词 前很常错! 因为这类的副词限定性强，要放在所修饰字的前面，不然可能使得读者感到困惑。 下面是一本文法书的例子： 我一天只吃两餐：I only eat two meals a day. 大家看出来，哪出错了吗? 千万别翻成中文。翻中文超顺der~ 我们先来看下面的说明就能知道上面的句子哪出错了。 Only 放在谁面就修饰谁。 ● Only I heard John shouting at the boys. (只有我) ● I only heard John shouting at the boys. (只听到，可能没看到...) ● I heard only John shouting at the boys. (只有约翰) ● I heard John only shouting at the boys. (只有叫) ● I heard John shouting at the boys only. (只有这些男孩：注only放句尾 修饰正前面的名词) 现在再来看这句：我一天只吃两餐。 ● I only eat two meals a day. (只有吃，没有xx动作) ● 不对，这句重点应该是只有两餐，所以应该写成：I eat only two meals a day. ● 但要特别注意的是：中文习惯，并不会说：吃只有两餐， ● 所以用中文思维极容易出错。 所以目前研究修辞题中ONLY 只要放在动词或分词前，都是错的。 因为要强调只作该动作，而没作其它动作的句子，算是很罕见。 再来我们来看两题GMAT修辞真题的例子： Diabetes, together with its serious complications, ranks as the nation’s ￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣ third leading cause of death, surpassed only by heart disease and cancer. ￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣ (A) ranks as the nation’s third leading cause of death, surpassed only (B) rank as the nation’s third leading cause of death, only surpassed (ONLY放在动词前错) (C) has the rank of the nation’s third leading cause of death, only surpassed (ONLY放在动词前错) (D) are the nation’s third leading causes of death, surpassed only (E) have been ranked as the nation’s third leading causes of death, only surpassed(ONLY放在动词前错) 解析：依ONLY放在动词前错就可以先删除(B) (C) (E) 本题考的是主动词一致性：Diabetes 糖尿病 是单数哦，(不要被字尾的s给欺骗感情了) together with…只是插入语，并不会影响主词，所以需要选单数的动词 (A) ranks ******************************************************************************* 第二题： Since 1975 so many people have been moving to Utah such that Mormons who were ￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣ once 75 percent of the population are now only accounting for half of it. ￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣ (A) so many people have been moving to Utah such that Mormons who were once 75 percent of the population are now only accounting for half of it (B) many people have been moving to Utah, so Mormons once 75 percent of the population are now accounting for only half (C) that many people have been moving to Utah, such that the Mormons that were once 75 percent of the population are now accounting for only half of it (D) many people have been moving to Utah such that the Mormons, who once represented 75 percent of the population, now only account for half (E) so many people have been moving to Utah that the Mormons, who once represented 75 percent of the population, now account for only half 解析：依ONLY放在动词或分词前错就可以先删除(A) (D) 再来依so…that的因果句型，删除(C) 注：such that 连用时在修辞中没对过。 (B) Mormons once 75 percent of the population 语义为之前75%的摩门教徒，不对， 应用非限定，表全体的摩门教徒。 第二个错：account for 占…比例 这是静态动词片语，不适用进行式are now accounting for 。 所以正解为：(E) 更多GMAT备考资料请见：https://goo.gl/HZWFN6 --

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