Less than是修饰可数还是不可数名词呢？还有much less。
OG81. In 1973 mortgage payments represented twenty-one percent of an average thirty-year-old male's income; and forty-four percent in 1984.
(A) income; and forty-four percent in 1984
(B) income; in 1984 the figure was forty-four percent
(C) income, and in 1984 forty-four percent
(D) income, forty-four percent in 1984 was the figure
(E) income that rose to forty-four percent in 1984
Answer：B
OG250. The company announced that its profits declined much less in the second quarter than analysts had expected it to and its business will improve in the second half of the year.
(A)had expected it to and its business will improve
(B)had expected and that its business would improve
(C)expected it would and that it will improve its business
(D)expected them to and its business would improve
(E)expected and that it will have improved its business
Answer B
这里much less是修饰profits的，profits是可数名词，说明much less（少于）可以修饰可数和不可数。
大全164. Because natural gas is composed mostly of methane, a simple hydrocarbon, vehicles powered by natural gas emit less of certain pollutants than the burning of gasoline or diesel fuel.
(A) less of certain pollutants than the burning of gasoline or diesel fuel
(B) fewer of certain pollutants than burning gaso-line or diesel fuel do
(C) less of certain pollutants than gasoline or diesel fuel
(D) fewer of certain pollutants than does burning gasoline or diesel fuel
(E) less of certain pollutants than those burning gasoline or diesel fuel
Answer: E
为什么不用fewer呢。Pollutants显然是可数名词，从中学就学过few,fewer修饰可数，little, less修饰不可数
GWD-7-Q4:
Only seven people this century have been killed by the great white shark, the man-eater of the movies—less than those killed by bee stings.
A. movies—less than those
B. movies—fewer than have been
C. movies, which is less than those
D. movies, a number lower than the people
E. movies, fewer than the ones
Answer：B
这里的答案是fewer than，因为是说movies，所以没有意见，但是错误选项有less than，说明这两个还是有区别的。
OG101. Even though the direct costs of malpractice disputes amounts to a sum lower than one percent of the $541 billion the nation spent on health care last year, doctors say fear of lawsuits plays a major role in health-care inflation.
(A) amounts to a sum lower
(B) amounts to less
(C) amounted to less
(D) amounted to lower
(E) amounted to a lower sum
Answer C
为什么不用amounts to fewer than呢，多少billion的钱应该是跟上题movies一样的概念呀感觉。
OG107. Downzoning, zoning that typically results in the reduction of housing density, allows for more open space in areas where little water or services exist.
(A) little water or services exist
(B) little water or services exists
(C) few services and little water exists
(D) there is little water or services available
(E) there are few services and little available water
The adjective little modifies "mass nouns" (e.g., water), which refer to some undifferentiated quantity; the adjective few modifies "count nouns" (e.g., services), which refer to groups made up of distinct members that can be considered individually.
Answer E
这个OG解释得很清楚。
大全728 The department defines a private passenger vehicle as one registered to an individual with a gross weight of less than 8,000 pounds.
(A) as one registered to an individual with a gross weight of less than 8,000 pounds
(B) to be one that is registered to an individual with a gross weight of less than 8,000 pounds
(C) as one that is registered to an individual and that has a gross weight of less than 8,000 pounds
(D) to have a gross weight less than 8,000 pounds and being registered to an individual（C）
(E) as having a gross weight of less than 8,000 pounds and registered to an individual
Answer C
重量用less than 多少磅，越来越晕了。
大全937With a total population of less than two hundred and fewer breeding females than ever before, the American crocodile seemed a decade ago to be in danger of disappearing.
(A) of less than two hundred and fewer
(B) lower than two hundred and less
(C) lesser than two hundred and fewer
(D) fewer than two hundred and less（A）
(E) of fewer than two hundred and of fewer
Answer A
看来less than就是修饰数量。
大全950A private house in New York City is a building owned by an individual or individuals having less than eight units and no commercial space.
(A) a building owned by an individual or individuals having less than eight units and no commercial space
(B) one that an individual or individuals own with fewer than eight units and no commercial space
(C) a building with fewer than eight units, no commercial space, and is owned by an individual or individuals
(D) one that has fewer than eight units, no commercial space and it is owned by an individual or individuals（E）
(E) one that has fewer than eight units, is owned by an individual or individuals, and has no commercial space
Answer E
为什么不是less than 8 units，刚刚得出的结论又被推翻了。
OG251. The gyrfalcon, an Arctic bird of prey, has survived a close brush with extinction; its numbers are now five times greater than when the use of DDT was sharply restricted in the early 1970's. .
(A) extinction; its numbers are now five times greater than
(B) extinction; its numbers are now five times more than
(C) extinction, their numbers now fivefold what they were
(D) extinction, now with fivefold the numbers they had
(E) extinction, now with numbers five times greater than
Answer A
为什么是its numbers 而不是its number，表示一个群体的数量，number还要加复数么？
OG161. A wildlife expert predicts that the reintroduction of the caribou into northern
(A) would fail if the density of the timber wolf population in that region is more numerous than
(B) would fail provided the density of the timber wolf population in that region is more than
(C) should fail if the timber wolf density in that region was greater than
(D) will fail if the density of the timber wolf population in that region is greater than
(E) will fail if the timber wolf density in that region were more numerous than
answer D
可以理解
less与不可数名词和可数名词单数连用。
OG250. The company announced that its profits declined much less in the second quarter than analysts had expected it to and its business will improve in the second half of the year.
(A)had expected it to and its business will improve
(B)had expected and that its business would improve
(C)expected it would and that it will improve its business
(D)expected them to and its business would improve
(E)expected and that it will have improved its business
Answer B
这里much less是修饰declineds的，说明much less（少于）修饰不可数。
大全164. Because natural gas is composed mostly of methane, a simple hydrocarbon, vehicles powered by natural gas emit less of certain pollutants than the burning of gasoline or diesel fuel.
(A) less of certain pollutants than the burning of gasoline or diesel fuel
(B) fewer of certain pollutants than burning gaso-line or diesel fuel do
(C) less of certain pollutants than gasoline or diesel fuel
(D) fewer of certain pollutants than does burning gasoline or diesel fuel
(E) less of certain pollutants than those burning gasoline or diesel fuel
Answer: E
Pollutants抽象N是不可数名词
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