上次我们和大家讨论了GMAT语法改错答案的特点——永远只有相对正确而不存在绝对正确,也就是需要我们善于运用排除法,挑选出相对准确而有效的那一个。并且我们举了几个例子,说明题目中很有可能几个选项都是错误的,我们就需要找出一个错误相对来说比较轻微的选项作为正确答案。其实相对正确还有另外一种情况,也就是有可能几个选项都是正确的,我们就需要找出一个最符合正确答案特征的选项作为正确答案。下面我们通过几个例子深入体会一下这种思路。 1. The proposed urban development zones do not represent a new principle. it was employed in “Operation Bootstrap” in Puerto Rico. (A) do not represent a new principle. it (B) represent not a new principle, but one that (C) are not a new principle. the same one (D) are not a new principle, but one that(B) (E) are not new in principle. it
2.For almost a hundred years after having its beginning in 1788, England exiled some 160,000 criminals to Australia. (A) For almost a hundred years after having its beginning in 1788, (B) Beginning in 1788 for a period of a hundred years, (C) Beginning a period of almost a hundred years, in 1788, (D) During a hundred years, a period beginning in 1788,(E) (E) Over a period of a hundred years beginning in 1788,
3.At the time of the Mexican agrarian revolution, the most radical faction, that of Zapata and his followers, proposed a return to communal ownership of land, to what had been a pre-Columbian form of ownership respected by the Spaniards. (A) land, to what had been a pre-Columbian form of ownership respected by the Spaniards (B) land, a form of ownership of the pre-Columbians and respected by the Spaniards (C) land, respected by the Spaniards and a pre-Columbian form of ownership (D) land in which a pre-Columbian form of ownership was respected by the Spaniards(A) (E) land that had been a pre-Columbian form of ownership respected by the Spaniards
这道题目中A选项的what引导的从句是作为同位语出现的,而一般同位语出现都是正确答案的标志,因为它很简洁,指代对象也很清楚。有些同学可能会疑惑为何加了个to,其实这个to正是一个正确答案的标志,它符合了介词尽量补出的原则。由于前面的结构是to communal ownership of land,为了使what修饰communal ownership,所以前面补了个to,这样就消除了任何歧义,what只能修饰ownership了。B选项and前后不对称,前面是一个名词而后面是一个分词,C选项前面是个分词后面是个名词也不对称,所以都错了。D和E语法与逻辑没有大问题,但是考虑到它们都用了定语从句,而A中的同位语是优于定语从句的,更何况A还用了介词尽量补出的原则,所以答案选A。