GMAT句子改错讲义(6)

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四、平行结构(3)

30.South Korea has witnessed the world’s most dramatic growth of Christian congregations. church membership is expanding by 6.6 percent a year, fully two-thirds of the growth coming from conversions rather than the population increasing. ( Z.P.123)

A) coming from conversions rather than the population increasing

B) coming from conversions rather than increases in the population

C) coming from conversions instead of the population increasing

D) Is from conversions instead of population increases

E) Is from conversions rather than increasing the population

31. The medieval scholar made almost no attempt to investigate the anatomy of plants, their mechanisms of growth, nor the ways where each was related to the other. (Z.P.127)

A) nor the ways where each was related to the other

B) nor how each was related to some other

C) or the way where one is related to the next

D) or the ways in which they are related to one another

E) or the ways that each related to some other

32. The major national leaders consulted consider solar power economically infeasible at present but that it will be so in the future. (Z.P.130)

A) that it will be so

B) that it would be so

C) believe that it will be so

D) believe that it will be economically feasible

E) believe that economic feasibility will be achieved

33. Most bacterial populations grown in controlled conditions will quickly expand to the limit of the food supply, produce toxic waste products that inhibit further growth, and reached an equilibrium state within a relatively short time. (Z.P.134)

A) produce toxic waste products that inhibit further growth, and reached anequilibrium state within a relatively short time

B) will have produced toxic waste products that inhibit further growth and also will reach an equilibrium state within a relatively short time

C) will then produce a toxic waste product that inhibit further growth and thus reached an equilibrium state in a very short time

D) produce toxic waste products that inhibit further growth, and reach equilibrium

E) produce toxic waste products that inhibit further growth, and reach an equilibrium state in a fairly prompt way

34. Many people mistakenly believe that the body’s nutritional requirements remain the same irregardless of the quantity and form of other nutrients in gested, physical activity and emotional state. (Z.P.135)

A) irregardless of the quantity and form of other nutrients ingested, physical activity and emotional state

B) irregardless of the other nutrients, physical activity and emotional state

C) regardless of the quantity of nutrients or physical exercise or emotional excitation

D) regardless of the quantity or form of nutrients or physical exercise and emotional statement

E) regardless of the quantity or form of other nutrients ingested, physical activity or emotional state

35. It could be argued that the most significant virtue of a popular democracy is not the right to participate in the 0selection of leaders, but rather that it affirms our importance in the scheme of things. (Z.P.137)

A) but rather that it affirms

B) but rather its affirmation of

C) but rather it’s affirmation in terms of

D) but instead of that, its affirming that

E) affirming rather

36. Henry Wadsworth Long fellow was a professor of Modern Languages at Harvard, at the same time also one of America’s greatest poets. (Z.P.140)

A) Harvard, at the same time also one of America’s greatest poets

B) Harvard, and at the same time was also one of America’s greatest poets.

C) Harvard, at the same time as he was one of America’s greatest poets.

D) Harvard, at the same time that be had been one of America’s greatest poets.

E) Harvard, being one of America’s greatest poets at the same time.

37. In three centuries – from 1050 – several million tons of stone were quarried in France f for the building of eighty cathedrals, five hundred large churches, and some tens of thousands of parish churches. ( Z.P.156)

A) for the building of eighty cathedrals, five hundred large churches, and some

B) in order that they might build eighty cathedrals, five hundred large churches, and some

C) so as they might build eighty cathedrals, five hundred large churches, and some

D) so that there could be built eighty cathedrals, five hundred large churches, and

E) such that they could build eighty cathedrals, five hundred large churches, and

38. The end of the eighteenth century saw the emergence of prize-stock breeding, with individual bulls and cows receiving awards, fetching unprecedented prices, and excited enormous interest whenever they were put on show. ( z.P 159)

A) excited

B) it excited

C) exciting

D) would excite

E) it had excited

38. The current administration being worried over some foreign trade barriers being removed and our exports failing to increase as a result of deep cuts in the value of the dollar, has formed a group to study ways to sharpen our competitiveness. (Z.P.162)

A) being worried over some foreign trade barriers being removed and our exports failing

B) worrying over some foreign trade barriers being removed, also over the failure of our exports

C) worried about the removal of some foreign trade barriers and the failure of our exports

D) in that they were worried about the removal of some foreign trade barriers and also about the failure of our exports

E) because of its worry concerning the removal of some foreign trade barriers, also concerning the failure of our exports

39. From the earliest days of the tribe, kinship determined the way in which the Ojibwa society organized its labor, provided access to its resources, and defined rights and obligations involved in the distribution and consumption of those resources. (Z.P.163)

A) and defined rights and obligations involved in the distribution and consumption of those resources

B) defining rights and obligations involved in their distribution and consumption

C) and defined rights and obligations as they were involved in its distribution and consumption

D) whose rights and obligations were defined in their distribution and consumption

E) the distribution and consumption of them defined by rights and obligations

40. The most common reasons for an employee’s unwillingness to accept a transfer are that mortgage rates are high, housing in the new location costs more, ad the difficulty of selling the old home. (Z.P.165)

A) that mortgage rates are high, housing in the new location costs more, and the difficulty of selling the old home

B) that mortgage rates are high, housing in the new location costs more, and that it is difficult to sell the old home

C) high mortgage rates, the greater cost of housing in the new location, and that the old home is difficult to sell

D) high mortgage rates, the greater cost of housing in the new location, and it is difficult to sell the old home

E) high mortgage rates, the greater cost of housing in the new location, and the difficulty of selling the old home

41. Displays of the aurora borealis, or “northern lights,” can heat the at mosphere over the arctic enough to affect the trajectories of ballistic missiles, induce electric currents that can cause blackouts In some areas and corrosion in north-south pipelines. ( Z.P.171)

A) to affect the trajectories of ballistic missiles, induce

B) that the trajectories of ballistic missiles are affected, induce

C) that it affects the trajectories of ballistic missiles, induces

D) that the trajectories of ballistic missiles are affected an induces

E) to affect the trajectories of ballistic missiles and induce

42. Geologists believe tat the warning signs for a major earthquake may include sudden fluctuations in local seismic activity, tilting and other deforma tions of the Earth’s crust, changing the measured strain across a fault zone, and varying the electrical properties of underground rocks. (Z.P.173)

A) changing the measured strain across a fault zone, and varying

B) changing measurements of the strain across a fault zone, and varying

C) changing the strain as measured across a fault zone, and variations of

D) changes in the measured strain across a fault zone, and variations in

E) changes in measurements of the strain across a fault zone, and variationsamong

KEYS:

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2.E 3.C 4.D 5.D 6.A 7.D 8.C 9.E 10.E 11.B 12.D 13.C 14.C 15.C 16. E 17.E 18.E 19.B 20. D 21.C 22.D 23.D 24. D 25. B 26.C 27.D 28.D 29. D 30.B 31.D 32.D 33.D 34.E 35.B 36.B 37.A 38.C 39.A 40.A 41. E 42. D