GMAT考题：OG2017-SC-724

GMAT考题

题库 / OG2017-SC-724

At the end of 2001, motion picture industry representatives said that there were about a million copies of Hollywood movies available online and expected piracy to increase with high-speed Internet connections that become more widely available.

online and expected piracy to increase with high-speed Internet connections that become more widely available

online and expect the increase of piracy with the wider availability of high-speed Internet connections

online, and they expect more piracy to increase with the wider availability of high-speed Internet connections

online, and that they expected the increase of piracy as high-speed Internet connections would become more widely available

online, and that they expected piracy to increase as high-speed Internet connections became more widely available

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题目分析：
本题有些难度，有些考点不易看出。实际上，从平行这个角度来说，五个选项都可以算正确。

选项分析：

A选项：本选项中expected和said平行，均由motion picture industry representatives发出，这点没有错误。唯一的错误出现在increase的状语上。其状语是一个介词短语（with high-speed internet connections that become more widely available），这个介词短语的核心词为connections。但是，在逻辑上，盗版不是伴随着“互联网的连接”而上升的，而应该是伴随着“互联网的连接被更加广泛的提供”而上升的（是更加广泛的接受导致盗版猖獗，而不是互联网连接导致盗版猖獗）。因此，increase的状语的核心词应该是become more widely available这整个系表结构，而不能是connections。

B选项：expect的宾语是名词短语the increase of piracy。这是不正确的。这点考查了“不定式和名词的区别”。用之于本题，expect的约束力较强，身后的宾语或宾补应该用不定式的形式。

C选项：expect应改为过去时expected；more和increase重复了，应该将more去掉。

D选项：the increase of错误同(B)。另外，在and身前加的逗号是完全没有问题的。英语中逗号可以表示一种语气的停顿，而并非要表达什么特殊的含义（除了限定性定语和非限定性定语外，非限定性定语身前的逗号是有意义的）。

E选项：Correct. 本选项在语法和逻辑上均是正确的。