醍醐灌顶 nb

设X公司一开始有N个客户，这N个客户在这一年结束的时候还在，如果这一年还入了新的客户，设新客户M，那么年底的客户量是N+M
问：（N+M） / N=？
条件1：N：M=12:1 12M=N 可以算出（N+M） / N sufficient
条件2：N=144 不知道M insufficient
选A

...BUT the sentence keeps going! The clause beginning with "while if substituted" clearly *means* "if [synthetic fertilizers are] substituted, but nowhere in the sentence has "synthetic fertilizer" been the SUBJECT of a verb. That phrase only appears as a modifier (in the nonunderlined portion). D has a definable, structural grammar issue--so this choice is out.

this is the problem. if "with ____" is modifying xxxxx, then it should be describing some aspect, or sub-component, of xxxxx.

here, "each" = each style of cooking.
we can't use "with each style of cooking..." to describe "styles of cooking".

greater than not equal

所以这题的意思是说，曾经我们只有C和discount store 现在P 来了，我们只有C和P 了？

第二遍做对了 时间把握好哦

But when the stem dies, its hormone signal also ceases. If a clone loses many stems simultaneously, the resulting hormonal imbalance triggers a huge increase in new, rapidly growing shoots that can outnumber the ones destroyed.

The maternal strategy evolved by harbor seals may have to do with their small size and the large proportion of their fat stores depleted in lactation. 看第二段开头。。。。。

排除法 定位第一段

之前做的笔记： be geared to（ward） doing sth是固定搭配，表示旨在做某事。 这里的to（ward）是介词，后面要跟动名词，不是to do sth的那个to 这个点死记住就好了。

在逻辑上，合同商和工程师两个人不会同时去责备他们两者中的一个，而应该是去两者中的一个去责备另一个。

a有歧义，after 1992 年5个世纪的开始，那也是24XX年，一个未来的时间，project SETI pledged 用过去式，明显错了！故C

第二遍做对了 冷静读题就好

D，workers和companies都有可能是they的指代对象，有歧义
E，they只能指代companies，没有歧义，更优

答案不对吧。随便举个例子3,5,10。A就错了

An outlier is "a data point on a graph or in a set of results that is very much bigger or smaller than the next nearest data point."。此处是最后一项结果偏离最大，且是skewed偏离（负向偏离）。排除掉这个选项之后，其他6项中认为他们祖国比美国好的平均人数是17.28，算上这个选项的平均值是10.83，两者差额是6.4。这里其实问的是，排除掉一个明显偏离的选项前后，平均数的变化。

so much as 在这儿的意思就是but rather
失眠不是an illness or a physicalcondition 疾病或生理状况 而是 a symptom of another problem that may simply be a reactionto certain medications, anxiety about travel, or stress before a jobinterview. 一些其它问题(可能只是简单的对药物的反应,旅行前的激动,或者面试前的焦虑)的症状。

这里是两个略有不同的用法，很容易混淆
1. not so much... as ... (not 和so much是连着的) 是 与其说...毋宁说...的意思
e.g. The ocean do not so much divide the world as unite it. 与其说海洋是把世界分隔开了还不如说是把世界连接起来了

2. (否定句) so much as ... 这个否定句可以是含有not ,no 或者without之类，大多数时候与后面的so much as 分开。 但跟上面的idiom的不同之处就在于so much 和 as 是连着的
>意思可以是but rather:
e.g. I'm not looking at her so much as I am studying her hat. 我没在看她，只不过是在看她的帽子

我一直纠结A和C 我觉得A 毕竟没提到human所以也不算完全替代，然后C 。。。。这个逻辑有毛病吗？？？？？