2015年GMAT：2016版本OG 新SC题——精品资源文件.docx

旗开得胜 PAGE PAGE 1 读万卷书 行万里路 The 19-year-old pianist and composer performed his most recent work all over Europe, Asia, and North America last year, winning prestigious awards in both London as well as Tokyo for his achievement at so young an age, and he is hoping to continue composing now that he has returned to Chicago. A. winning prestigious awards in both London as well as Tokyo for his achievement at so young an age, and he is hoping B. winning prestigious awards both in London and Tokyo for his achievement at such a young age, and hoping C. having won prestigious awards both in London and Tokyo for his achievement at so young an age, hoping D. winning prestigious awards in both London and Tokyo for his achievement at such a young age, and he hopes E. having won prestigious awards both in London as well as Tokyo for his achievement at so young an age, and he hopes Idiom; Grammatical construction This sentence is about the past accomplishments and the future ambitions of a musician who recently won awards on a world tour. In some of the versions of the sentence, the phrase as well as is redundant with the word both before London and Tokyo. Idiomatically, the simple conjunction and completes the phrase beginning with bothA ? The phrase as well as between London and Tokyo is not idiomatic (the idiomatic formula is both X and Y). The present progressive verb is hoping is unnecessarily wordy.B ? Because hoping is parallel with winning, it suggests that the hoping and winning are contemporaneous, whereas in fact the musician won his awards last year but is now, in the present, upon his return, hoping to continue composing.C ? The present-perfect participial phrase having won suggests that his winning took place before his performance tour. Furthermore, the use of hoping in this version of the sentence suggests that hoping is something the pianist did while on his performance tour last year, but the final phrase, now that he has returned to Chicago, indicates th