Not trusting themselves to choose wisely among the wide array of investment opportunities on the market, stockbrokers are helping many people who turn to them to buy stocks that could be easily bought directly.
stockbrokers are helping many people who turn to them to buy stocks that could be easily
stockbrokers are helping many people who are turning to them for help in buying stocks that they could easily have
many people are turning to stockbrokers for help from them to buy stocks that could be easily
many people are turning to stockbrokers for help to buy stocks that easily could have been
many people are turning to stockbrokers for help in buying stocks that could easily be
题目分析:
本题的意思是:因为不相信自己能很明智的选择投资的机会,所以很多人会找股票经纪人在买股票的方面提供帮助。
选项分析:
A选项:句首的trust是一个伴随状语,其主语应该和其主句主语相同,即,stockbrokers。但是在逻辑上,不信任自己的应该是人们(many people),而不是股票经纪人。
B选项:本选项错误同(A)。
C选项:from them是赘余的,因为很多人转向经纪人去寻求帮助,肯定是寻求经纪人对自己的帮助,不可能转向经纪人去寻求别人的帮助。
另外,不定式短语to buy stocks用法不正确,应该为介词短语in buying stocks。这点考查了不定式和ing的区别。用之于本题,在主句事件many people are turning to stockbrokers for help发生后,其对“购买股票”这件事的发生与否并没有直接的影响(buy这个事件是turn to help的状语),即,寻求股票经纪的帮助后,和购买股票是两个步骤,寻求了帮助,也不代表就会产生购买股票的行为(也许仅仅是寻求推荐股票,而不实际购买)。
D选项:不定式短语to buy错误同(C);have been此处表示先时性,但是本题中bought directly是股票的一个性质,没有比谁先比谁后的问题。
E选项:Correct. 本选项在语法和逻辑上均是正确的。
1.选项A,这句话OG的解释说:easily放在这里是错误的, 那应该是怎么放呢?根据我的知识储备,副词好像是紧跟在修饰的动词后面的吧?请问有其他的用法或者有出现过其他的情况吗?
2.选项D的OG解释有点看不懂,可以尝试着帮我理解一下吗?”The point is not that people are turning to stockbrokers for help in buying stocks that at some earlier time could have been bought directly, but rather that the stocks could be bought by the people directly at the very time they are seeking help from the stockbrokers.“ 为什么会有这样情况的发生呢?我理解的的确就是人们去向stockbrokers寻求帮助去买一些之前容易买得到的股票。为什么我的理解不正确呢?
1. 这个选项A是比较明显OG的倒推型的解释。副词其实只要不放在形容词的前面,放在句子哪里都可以看作是状语(也就是修饰动词),所以这一条不要记了。
2. OG对于选项D的解释还是比较到位的。主要是因为这里的could have been。在分词或情态动词里加 have(例如 having done 和 could have done),都不是“完成时”,而是“先发生”的意思,即,发生它修饰的那个动作之前。例如:
Having seen Mary, I will watch TV(咱们先不要管这句话本身的语义对错,只是用它讲一个道理而已).
这句话不表示“我已经看到Mary”,而表示的是“看到Mary”这个动作发生在“看电视”之前(所谓先发生的意思就在于此)。放回到选项D中。按照这个字面的含义,它讲的是“可以买自己买股票”发生在”找经纪人买股票“之前。这是不合逻辑的。自己买和委托经纪人买之间没有任何先后的关系,也就是说,不是自己先买,然后再委托经纪人买。而应该是,要么你就自己买,要么委托经纪人买,句子意思应该是“委托经纪人买那些也可以自己直接买的股票”,而不是“委托经纪人买那些之前自己已经买过的股票”。这就是OG解析里讲到 at some earlier time 和 at the very time的意思。
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