作者Diablotin (咕嚕咕嚕)
看板GMAT
標題[問題] Manhattan GMAT一題修辭
時間Sun Oct 18 10:09:13 2009
Although they are less obvious, termites does significantly more damage
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to homes than branches from trees.
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(A) termites does significantly more damage to homes than
(B) termites do the most damage to significant homes than do
(C) the termite does significantly more damage to homes as do
(D) termites do significantly more damage to homes than
(E) termites do significantly more damage to homes than do
答案E, 詳解如下：
The singular verb “does” does not agree with the plural subject
“termites.” Additionally, the meaning of the original sentence lacks
clarity. Does it mean that termites do more damage to homes than to branches,
or does it mean that termites cause more damage to homes than branches do?
Logic dictates that we are meant to make a comparison between the amount of
damage caused by termites to the amount of damage caused by branches.
不知道是不是我理解錯誤，我看這題的時候，覺得應該是白蟻對房子的傷害比對樹枝的
傷害大。可是解答好像是寫白蟻對房子的傷害比樹枝對房子的傷害大，
好怪喔...是我看錯解答的意思嗎？
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1F：推 fur:你沒有看錯解答的意思，他是在做白蟻與樹枝對房子傷害的比較。 10/18 11:31
2F：→ fur:做GMAT題目就是要用它的世界觀，不要讓你的背景知識滲進去混淆 10/18 11:33
3F：→ fur:了題目的意圖。 10/18 11:33
4F：→ Diablotin:可是作題目的時候要怎麼選D和E阿？ 10/19 01:01
5F：→ alexy:如果選D，請問是什麼和什麼在比 ?? 10/19 01:52
6F：推 fur:D不可能，因為than是連接詞，如果沒有do，則其後面的子句就少 10/19 03:26
7F：→ fur:了動詞；如果加了do，那不就仍然是白蟻對房子的傷害和樹枝的傷 10/19 03:26
8F：→ fur:害在比？ 10/19 03:27
9F：→ fur:再補充詳細一點，是白蟻對房子的傷害和樹枝對房子的傷害在比。 10/19 03:29
10F：→ fur:再更正一下，than後面是句子，than是對等連接詞。 10/19 03:36
11F：推 pentimento:than 後面接的是「副詞子句」，than 是從屬連接詞， 10/19 14:32
12F：→ pentimento:而非對等連接詞。 10/19 14:33
13F：→ stephanini:如果是D的話 可能加個than to ...比較好 10/20 23:30