Events & Promotions
|
|
GMAT Club Daily Prep
Thank you for using the timer - this advanced tool can estimate your performance and suggest more practice questions. We have subscribed you to Daily Prep Questions via email.
Customized
for You
Track
Your Progress
Practice
Pays
Not interested in getting valuable practice questions and articles delivered to your email? No problem, unsubscribe here.
Nov 1811:00 AM PST
-12:00 PM PST
Join us in a live GMAT practice session and solve 30 challenging GMAT questions with other test takers in timed conditions, covering GMAT Quant, Data Sufficiency, Data Insights, Reading Comprehension, and Critical Reasoning questions.
Nov 2211:00 AM IST
-01:00 PM IST
Do RC/MSR passages scare you? e-GMAT is conducting a masterclass to help you learn – Learn effective reading strategies Tackle difficult RC & MSR with confidence Excel in timed test environment- Nov 23
11:00 AM IST
-01:00 PM IST
Attend this free GMAT Algebra Webinar and learn how to master the most challenging Inequalities and Absolute Value problems with ease. 
Nov 2510:00 AM EST
-11:00 AM EST
Prefer video-based learning? The Target Test Prep OnDemand course is a one-of-a-kind video masterclass featuring 400 hours of lecture-style teaching by Scott Woodbury-Stewart, founder of Target Test Prep and one of the most accomplished GMAT instructors.
Updated on: 02 Jun 2021, 00:47
Originally posted by rohansherry on 24 Aug 2009, 14:00.
Last edited by Bunuel on 02 Jun 2021, 00:47, edited 8 times in total.
Last edited by Bunuel on 02 Jun 2021, 00:47, edited 8 times in total.
Added the OA
Kudos
Bookmarks
A
Be sure to select an answer first to save it in the Error Log before revealing the correct answer (OA)!
Difficulty:
35%
(medium)
Question Stats:
63% (01:09) correct
37%
(01:17)
wrong
based on 4955
sessions
History
Date
Time
Result
Not Attempted Yet
The Emperor Augustus, it appears, commissioned an idealized sculpture portrait, the features of which are so unrealistic as to constitute what one scholar calls an "artificial face."
(A) so unrealistic as to constitute
(B) so unrealistic they constituted
(C) so unrealistic that they have constituted
(D) unrealistic enough so that they constitute
(E) unrealistic enough so as to constitute
(A) so unrealistic as to constitute
(B) so unrealistic they constituted
(C) so unrealistic that they have constituted
(D) unrealistic enough so that they constitute
(E) unrealistic enough so as to constitute
The verbs are and calls indicate that the sculpture is being viewed and judged in the present.
Thus, neither the past tense verb constituted (in B) nor the present perfect verb have constituted (in C) is correct; both suggest that the statue’s features once constituted an artificial face but no longer do so.
Also, B would be better if that were inserted after so unrealistic, although the omission of that is not ungrammatical.
Choices D and E use unidiomatic constructions with enough: unrealistic enough to constitute would be idiomatic, but the use of enough is imprecise and awkward in this context.
Choice A, which uses the clear, concise, and idiomatic construction so unrealistic as to constitute, is best.
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/10/science/scholar-detectives-learn-how-augustus-idealized-his-image.html
THE Emperor Augustus, it seems, had trouble with his image - and he fixed it just as many a polititian would today: with good public relations.
An idealized vision might well have persisted today had it not been for the recent detective work of archeologists and scholars, especially in West Germany, about the way Rome's first Emperor is shown in the more than 200 ancient sculptural portraits of him that have survived.
The researchers have concluded that around 27 B.C. the Emperor commissioned a model portrait head whose features were far more serene and ideal than those he bore in life. The adopted son of Julius Caesar, Augustus was born in 63 B.C., became sole ruler in 31 B.C., at the age of 32, and reigned until his death at 77, in A.D. 14.
Copies of Idealized Face
Faithful copies of this idealized prototype, they say, were made available for further copying by sculptors in Rome and elsewhere, and copies of it, and copies of copies, make up the majority of the surviving portraits.
In the sculptures of this variety, often called the Prima Porta type after a statue discovered at Prima Porta, just outside Rome, the features are so unrealistic as to constitute an ''artificial face,'' according to Paul Zanker, director of the University of Munich's Institute of Classical Archeology. Professor Zanker's remarks, given in a lecture last summer, were published later last year in Forschung (Research), a journal published by the West German Institute for Research.
Thus, neither the past tense verb constituted (in B) nor the present perfect verb have constituted (in C) is correct; both suggest that the statue’s features once constituted an artificial face but no longer do so.
Also, B would be better if that were inserted after so unrealistic, although the omission of that is not ungrammatical.
Choices D and E use unidiomatic constructions with enough: unrealistic enough to constitute would be idiomatic, but the use of enough is imprecise and awkward in this context.
Choice A, which uses the clear, concise, and idiomatic construction so unrealistic as to constitute, is best.
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/10/science/scholar-detectives-learn-how-augustus-idealized-his-image.html
THE Emperor Augustus, it seems, had trouble with his image - and he fixed it just as many a polititian would today: with good public relations.
An idealized vision might well have persisted today had it not been for the recent detective work of archeologists and scholars, especially in West Germany, about the way Rome's first Emperor is shown in the more than 200 ancient sculptural portraits of him that have survived.
The researchers have concluded that around 27 B.C. the Emperor commissioned a model portrait head whose features were far more serene and ideal than those he bore in life. The adopted son of Julius Caesar, Augustus was born in 63 B.C., became sole ruler in 31 B.C., at the age of 32, and reigned until his death at 77, in A.D. 14.
Copies of Idealized Face
Faithful copies of this idealized prototype, they say, were made available for further copying by sculptors in Rome and elsewhere, and copies of it, and copies of copies, make up the majority of the surviving portraits.
In the sculptures of this variety, often called the Prima Porta type after a statue discovered at Prima Porta, just outside Rome, the features are so unrealistic as to constitute an ''artificial face,'' according to Paul Zanker, director of the University of Munich's Institute of Classical Archeology. Professor Zanker's remarks, given in a lecture last summer, were published later last year in Forschung (Research), a journal published by the West German Institute for Research.
02 Nov 2018, 23:43
Kudos
Bookmarks
rohansherry
The errors in this question deal with tenses and idioms.
so that shows purpose - I will go tomorrow so that she can join me.
Purpose of going tomorrow - she can join
so as to shows purpose too - I am planning to move so as to be closer to my parents' house.
Purpose of moving - to be closer to my parents' house.
so ... that ... - shows cause and effect - The bracelet was so expensive that I could not afford it.
Cause - very expensive, Effect - I cannot afford
so ... as to ... shows cause and effect too - The hurricane was so devastating as to leave nothing standing.
Cause - devastating hurricane, Effect - Nothing left standing
With enough, you should use "to" - The girl from Wisconsin was pretty enough to make it big in Hollywood.
As for the tenses, you should use present tense.
the features of which are so unrealistic as to constitute what one scholar calls an "artificial face."
We are evaluating the features at present.
(A) so unrealistic as to constitute
(B) so unrealistic they constituted - that missing and uses past tense
(C) so unrealistic that they have constituted - Wrong tense. Present is needed, not present perfect
(D) unrealistic enough so that they constitute - enough to is needed
(E) unrealistic enough so as to constitute - enough to is needed
Note that "unrealistic enough" is a bit illogical since it is not a defined concept. We want to talk about how the sculptor took the features so far that they became unrealistic.
Answer (A)
21 Nov 2009, 22:48
Kudos
Bookmarks
sacmanitin
I choose A.
(A) so unrealistic as to constitute
"So X as to Y" is idiomatic.
(B) so unrealistic they constituted
"So X they Y" is unidiomatic.
(C) so unrealistic that they have constituted
Same as B. Also "have constituted" is unnecessary and indicates a continued action or effect.
(D) unrealistic enough so that they constitute
Awkward and unidiomatic.
(E) unrealistic enough so as to constitute
Awkward and unidiomatic.
