Margaret Mead, the best-known anthropologist of the twentieth century, helped shape public opinion on fundamentally important areas like attitudes toward children and families, along with the relative merits of competition and cooperation.


shape public opinion on fundamentally important areas like attitudes toward children and families, along with

shape public opinion in such fundamentally important areas as attitudes toward children and families and

to shape public opinion about such fundamentally important areas like attitudes toward children and families, also about

the shaping of public opinion for fundamentally important areas such as attitudes toward children and families, and those toward

the shaping of public opinion around fundamentally important areas like attitudes toward children and families, and those of

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题目分析:
首先,help身后可以用to do,也可以用do,即,help sb. (to) do/in doing; help (to) do; 其次,列举用such … as A, B, … and C结构,不可以用like代替。like在GMAT中通常做介词表示“像…一样”,要求前后严格对称,但不可表示列举。

选项分析:

A选项:like无法表示列举,应当换成such as;along with不能代替and表示并列。along with是“随着”的意思,其表明身后的内容应该比身前的内容重量级更低,在本题中,对“小孩和家庭的态度”和“竞争与合作的相对优势”之间没有强弱关系,应该是并列关系。

B选项:Correct。本选项在语法和逻辑上均是正确的。

C选项:like无法表示列举,应当换成such as;also about错误,应改为and about。这是因为,also是副词,不能连接两个语法独立的成分。

D选项:help the shaping of public opinion不正确,应改为help shape public opinion。提取本选项的主干则有:
Margaret Mead help the shaping of public opinion. 
这句话讲的是MM这个人帮助了shape这个事件。在选项(A)(B)(C)中,help一直属于助动词,相当于是MM主动的发出shape这个动作。在逻辑上,只能是帮助某人做某事(help sb do sth),不能直接帮助一件事。试想,只能说,我帮助你备考GMAT(help sb do sth),不能说,我帮助准备GMAT这件事,即,不能直接帮助一件事。
另外,最后的平行对象也有问题,those会指代身前的attitudes,但在逻辑上,平行的应该是attitudes和merits。

E选项:help the shaping of public opinion错误同(D);like不能表示举例错误同(B);平行错误同(D)。

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