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标题: 两道XDF语法题（手敲的也），加上885最后真题4 [打印本页]

作者: freegirl 时间: 2003-9-18 21:26
标题: 两道XDF语法题（手敲的也），加上885最后真题4

885真题一道

4.According to a survey of graduating medical students conducted by the Association of American Medical Colleges, minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice in socioeconomically deprived areas.
(A) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice
(B) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than other graduates who plan on practicing
(C) minority graduates are nearly four times as likely as other graduates to plan on practicing
(D) it is nearly four times more likely that minority graduates rather than other graduates will plan to practice
(E) it is nearly four times as likely for minority graduates than other graduates to plan to practice

answer is A, how about C?
做这种几倍几倍的题目，总选不好，请支高招！

XDF-384：
Studies show that young people with higher-than-average blood pressure and their families have a history of high blood pressure are more likely than others to develop a server form of the condition.
(A) and their families have a history of high blood pressure
(B) whose families have a history of high blood pressure
(C) and a history of high blood pressure runs in the family
(D) whose families have a history of high blood pressure running in them
(E) with a history of high blood pressure running in their family

Answer is B, how about E? B中的whose不是很confused吗？既可以是修饰前面的紧跟的 blood pressure 也可以是young people。答案E就是缺了一个 and , 如果有and with....算不算对呢？

XDF-108

With its plan to develop seven and a half acres of shore land, Cleverland is but one of a large number of communities on the Gread Lakes that is looking to its waterfront as a way to improve the quality of urban life and attract new business.

(A) is looking to its waterfront as a way to improve the quality of urban life and attract
(B) is looking at its waterfront to improve the quality of urban life and attract
(C) are looking to their waterfronts to improve the quality of urban life and attract
(D) are looking to its waterfront as a way of improving the qulity of urban life and attracting
(E) are looking at their waterfront as a way they can improve the quality of urban life and attract

Answer is: C, how about E? C 中不定式"to improve the quality..." 会不会让人产生歧义，是waterfronts发出的动作呢？

谢谢了，一眨眼又快到国庆了，我的功夫总不见长，郁闷啊！！！

作者: sbbi 时间: 2003-9-18 22:01
108
look to=指望
E:redundant. And there should be a "through which" after "way".而且"looking at .."并不是"a way"去改善..

384 is 885's Sec16-9. 你不用自己敲,在885上search一下,粘贴过来就好啦!
XDF的题885上全的

作者: freegirl 时间: 2003-9-18 23:22

sbbigg,

谢谢! 108 E 偶明白了，但 c 的 confusion 请指教。
还有384 和真题，也请看看啦...

谢了呀！

作者: sbbi 时间: 2003-9-19 09:00
108 C should be viewed as "look to sth to do sth" as a whole.

384 E. if there is no 2nd with, E may be better. But, "running" smells very suspicious to me. Sorry I do according a lot to my intuitives. and B is more concise. "Whose"指人应不会有二意. If it is to qualify "pressure", it should be "the family of which". 2 cents

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作者: sbbi 时间: 2003-9-19 09:10
BraveMBA and gemj帮忙看看吧...
真题4,我选C!
1)be likely to do. not "be likely in doing"
2)it is valid to say "plan on doing/sth"
3)it is valid to say "A is 3 times as strong as B"

作者: sbbi 时间: 2003-9-19 20:59
BraveMBA and gemj帮忙看看吧...

作者: freegirl 时间: 2003-9-19 22:16

sbbigg, 谢谢你！有时自己搞不明白的东东，人家一点就破了。 ChaseDream is a wonderful place.

是啊，斑竹们发发言呀！其实我多想发言呢，就是水平有限，怕误导。心有余而力不足啊！

作者: braveMBA 时间: 2003-9-19 23:27
不好意思，没有看到。

4.According to a survey of graduating medical students conducted by the Association of American Medical Colleges, minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice in socioeconomically deprived areas.
(A) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice
(B) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than other graduates who plan on practicing
(C) minority graduates are nearly four times as likely as other graduates to plan on practicing
(D) it is nearly four times more likely that minority graduates rather than other graduates will plan to practice
(E) it is nearly four times as likely for minority graduates than other graduates to plan to practice

这题好象以前激烈争论过，记得MZYZHU有一贴挺不错。我还是坚持我的观点，不是因为答案是A。
1、four times更倾向于跟more than，而不是as，但不是不能跟。
2、关于比较从句是否补出动词的问题，我觉得只有PREFER，没有固定的标准。ETS倾向于在以全句子内容比较的时候补出动词，因为清晰。这题在比什么？比plan的能力，谁和谁比？minority graduates 和 other graduates 。怎么比？全句。
例如OG156。
156. Dirt roads may evoke the bucolic simplicity of another century, but financially strained townships point out that dirt roads cost twice as much as maintaining paved roads.
A.dirt roads cost twice as much as maintaining paved roads
B.dirt roads cost twice as much to maintain as paved roads do
C.maintaining dirt roads costs twice as much as paved roads do
D.maintaining dirt roads costs twice as much as it does for paved roads
E.to maintain dirt roads costs twice as much as for paved roads

继续讨论。

作者: freegirl 时间: 2003-9-20 01:12

斑竹gg,

谢谢你的解释！156 我能明白是B ， B 是主语与主语比较。
因为其他的答案都形式上不对称。还有奥妙吗？

作者: gemj 时间: 2003-9-20 02:50
885真题4
首先,我完全同意 mzyzhu在帖子[讨论]感觉真题4的答案A中的第二个are多余（http://forum.chasedream.com/dispbbs.asp?boardID=23&ID=15189）中的观点，双手赞同！

以下是引用mzyzhu在2003-9-16 2:15:00的发言：
感谢小按提供最新真提和答案。但是感觉语法低4 题正确答案值得商榷。先看一下4题
4.According to a survey of graduating medical students conducted by the Association of American Medical Colleges, minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice in socioeconomically deprived areas.
(A) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice
(B) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than other graduates who plan on practicing
(C) minority graduates are nearly four times as likely as other graduates to plan on practicing
(D) it is nearly four times more likely that minority graduates rather than other graduates will plan to practice
(E) it is nearly four times as likely for minority graduates than other graduates to plan to practice

答案选择位A. 因此简化就是：
graduates A are 4 times more likely than graduates B are in doing something.

感觉are在那别扭，不解？前面也有人就此发问。
http://forum.chasedream.com/dispbbs.asp?boardID=23&ID=14527

但是解释不太令人信服。现在说一下个人意见，感觉答案A中的第二个are 多余。从885中没有找到一提将第二个be动词补出的情况，但却找到2提在逻辑上类似，但都没有在第二个人称名次前/后补出be动词。请看：

Section 4/11. Several studies have found that the coronary patients who exercise most actively are at least fifty percent less likely than those who are sedentary to die of a heart attack.

简化：patients A are 50% less likely than patients B to die of a heart attack

补充250/60. Studies show that young people with higher-than-average blood pressure whose families have a history of high blood pressure are more likely than others to develop a severe form of the condition.

简化：people A are more likely than peole B to develop a condition

从语感的的角度，A is xxx time more/less likely than B to do something比较顺畅。由于more likely than和 as likely as 在表达上都可以接受，（当然表示的倍数前者比后者多一倍）。感觉C应该比较好。
希望听一听其他高手的意见。

其次，我同意sbbi的三点论断，并且提供进一步的论据和具体的例子。

以下是引用sbbi在2003-9-19 9:10:00的发言：
BraveMBA and gemj帮忙看看吧...
真题4,我选C!
1)be likely to do. not "be likely in doing"
2)it is valid to say "plan on doing/sth"
3)it is valid to say "A is 3 times as strong as B"

1)be likely to do. not "be likely in doing"
这自然不用论证啦！
2)it is valid to say "plan on doing/sth"
请看“英汉大词典（陆谷孙）”的解释：
PLAN ON： <口>有…的计划; 打算, 想要
I think we can plan on remaining here until Wednesday. 我想我们可以安排在这里呆到星期三.
I was wondering who you were planning on rooming with next year. 我不知道你打算明年和谁同住一室.
I plan on six kids. 我想有6个孩子.
3)it is valid to say "A is 3 times as strong as B"
二个例子：
Also, it was pointed out, milk-drinking English women get some kinds of cancer eighteen times as frequently as Japanese women who seldom drink milk. （这个句子与C选项高度类似。Japanese women后面也无任何助（系）动词。我想仅仅这个例子就能说明C中的“minority graduates are nearly four times as likely as other graduates”是没有问题的。（出自LSAT阅读））
In recent days, while the price of MEGA Corporation stock has been falling, the corporation’s officers and directors have bought up to nine times as much of it as they have sold. （出自LSAT逻辑）
总之，我认为A中出现的more likely… in planning 是无法解释的，仅这一条可以判它死刑。
其次，are other graduates中的are 是多余的，而且是严重多余。
相反，C是完美的（在我的眼里），没有任何不妥；至少挑不出任何错误（在任何人的眼里）。所以正确答案应该是C。

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作者: sbbi 时间: 2003-9-20 05:00
gemj,你的标记应是头小牛,而不是熊猫

作者: braveMBA 时间: 2003-9-20 05:03
继续讨论。

看OG CR171
Clearly, drivers who equip their vehicles with radar detectors are more likely to exceed the speed limit regularly than are drivers who do not.

其实我觉得在比较结构中如果是某两类相似的东西比较的时候，GMAT还是倾向于完整比较，尽管省略相似部分不是错误。但是的确，likely to do是更好的形式。问题是，题目出现了这5个选项，我们究竟该怎么选？可能我们还不能忽略这样一个事实，就是原句在说MORE THAN，从意思上看有“大于”的意思，而C选项中的AS... AS还是稍微地调整了句子的意思。同时，four times more than要优于 four times as as。从上面的分析，可以看出优选的选项是逻辑意思的保持以及整体句子结构的清晰。

继续讨论。

作者: freegirl 时间: 2003-9-20 06:47

天哪，你们一个个记性怎么这么好？把 Last 和 OG-CR 的句子都搬了出来！
我同意 gemj 的说法，因为记得有前辈说过：如果省略的谓语与比较的谓语完全一样，
即使省略也不会产生疑义，　这个时候就可以省略他。A 之所以感觉不对，也不是因为 are -- 补全谓语是不能说他不简洁的，只是觉得 plan in 不对。
而且 last 与 CR 的例句就像阅读的句子一样，是不可以用语法的规则来衡量的。否则，有很多违规的地方。只是本人的见解。

braveMBA, 现在可是 3：1 了，可惜真理往往掌握在少数人的手里

作者: joice 时间: 2003-9-20 07:29
1.I use ' in doing' a lot,状语, but i don't know why.
in A.----- more likely than ---(in planing) to do ---
2.'are' i feel it is because of Dao(4)Zhuan(1)(chinese).
3. more likely than to do sth.
4. In C, 'plan to' not 'plan on"

作者: gemj 时间: 2003-9-20 11:58

以下是引用braveMBA在2003-9-20 5:03:00的发言：
继续讨论。

看OG CR171
Clearly, drivers who equip their vehicles with radar detectors are more likely to exceed the speed limit regularly than are drivers who do not.

其实我觉得在比较结构中如果是某两类相似的东西比较的时候，GMAT还是倾向于完整比较，尽管省略相似部分不是错误。

首先，我觉得LZM的规则：“在谓语内容一致，比较两个主语的时候，在THAN之后，我们要尽量补出谓语动词，其原则是（1）…（补出）do, does, did, is, was, were或are；（2）….在THAN之后保留此助动词（情态动词）”(P153)是不对的。
应该是：“如果不会产生歧义或引起误解，就不要补出谓语动词，否则就是累赘；如果会产生歧义，则一定不能省。”
上例中，之所以要补出are，是因为THAN前面是一个完整的句子，THAN紧跟句子的宾语speed limit。如果不补出drivers 的谓语动词，会造成drivers 与speed limit比较的误会（语法上，逻辑上当然不会）。
下面的这个句子(OG-224)是出于同样的原则补出了Aleuts or Inuits的谓语动词were。否则让人产生Aleuts or Inuits与Europeans比较的误会（语法、逻辑上都会）。这里必须补，不是尽量补！
224. Inuits of the Bering Sea were in isolation from contact with Europeans longer than Aleuts or Inuits of the North Pacific and northern Alaska.
(A) in isolation from contact with Europeans longer than
(B) isolated from contact with Europeans longer than
(C) in isolation from contact with Europeans longer than were
(D) isolated from contact with Europeans longer than were
(E) in isolation and without contacts with Europeans longer than
D, the best choice
下面的例子(OG-5)之所以不补出any of their supposedly Mediterranean predecessors的谓语动词，是因为不补出是不会引起任何歧义的。相反，补出是累赘的。当然，这一点同样适用于真题4。
5. Carbon-14 dating reveals that the megalithic monuments in Brittany are nearly 2,000 years as old as any of their supposed Mediterranean predecessors.
(A) as old as any of their supposed
(B) older than any of their supposed
(C) as old as their supposed
(D) older than any of their supposedly
(E) as old as their supposedly
B, the best choice
不补的例子还有OG-46。这个句子之所以不补出，而且THAN的前面虽然有宾语，但是双重动宾结构。从语法上、逻辑上都不会产生those raised in confinement与weight或medication相比较的嫌疑。当然，就这个例子来说，如果补出，并不算多余。这才是补与不补均可的情况吧。
46. A study commissioned by the Department of Agriculture showed that if calves exercise and associated with other calves, they will require less medication and gain weight quicker than do those raised in confinement.
(A) associated with other calves, they will require less medication and gain weight quicker than do
(B) associated with other calves, they require less medication and gain weight quicker than
(C) associate with other calves, they required less medication and will gain weight quicker than do
(D) associate with other calves, they have required less medication and will gain weight more quickly than do
(E) associate with other calves, they require less medication and gain weight more quickly than
Choice E, the best answer

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作者: braveMBA 时间: 2003-9-20 21:30
LZM的原则太绝对，应该按照实际情况来分析，这也是我们为什么讨论的原因。的确，省与不省，其实都是按照特定的题目进行的游戏。我自己的一直做法都是以逻辑意思为核心，优选答案，至于这种比较的题目是否补动词，其实都是比出来的，例如你提到的OG 46，D的不优之处在时态表达，这个错误的优先级远高于比较的内容。而且很赞同你说的有些地方“必须补，不是尽量补！”，因为Orange & Apple原则是第一位的。哈哈，讨论到现在，似乎这个问题清楚多了。但是真题4，我依然选A，因为C虽然LIKELY TO DO更好，但是改变了句子的意思，并且four times as..as 不如four times more than...尤其是两者同时出现时。

作者: freegirl 时间: 2003-9-20 22:16

经典！
如果产生歧义，比如比较中的第一部分的一个名词性宾语与比较中的第二部分的主语在一起时，就要补足谓语。
如比较中的第一部分的是个形容词性的表语当然就不会与比较中的第二部分的主语有什么歧义的地方了，因此可以省去第二部分的谓语。

讨论让我们明亮了双眼！

作者: gemj 时间: 2003-9-20 22:54
freegirl 总结的真好。
安哥呢，出来说句话啊。你的意见如何？

作者: gemj 时间: 2003-10-23 12:52
请大家把这个题目再好好讨论一下，最后给结个案。

作者: gemj 时间: 2003-10-23 13:04
请高手结个案。

作者: gemj 时间: 2003-10-23 13:06
我晕了头，发了两遍。算上这个就是第三遍。请教了！

作者: remeo 时间: 2003-10-26 15:35

以下是引用gemj在2003-10-23 13:06:00的发言：
我晕了头，发了两遍。算上这个就是第三遍。请教了！

究竟是用as...as结构还是用more...than结构，好象很难判断。

不过根据我从OG中找到的一些例子：
我发现了这样一个问题，就是当用as...as结构与倍数合用的时候，应该是倍数+as many/much as的结构，表达一种数量上的可能性多少的关系；而如果用more...than结构与倍数合用的时候，倍数+more （adj比较级）... than 的用法，表达某动作，行为，事情发生的可能性多少的关系。当然，这只是我个人的一些猜想，还有待验证。
所以我们判断的依据：
1。究竟是表达一种数量上的比较关系，还是某种动作，行为，事情发生的可能性多少的关系；

2。从倍数+as many/much as和倍数+more （adj比较级）... than 的结构来判断。

倍数+as many/much as的用法：

89. A recent national study of the public schools shows that there are now one microcomputer for every thirty-two pupils, four times as many than there were four years ago.
(A)    there are now one microcomputer for every thirty-two pupils, four times as many than there were
(B)    there is now one microcomputer for every thirty-two pupils, four times as many than there were
(C)    there is now one microcomputer for every thirty-two pupils, four times as many as there were
(D)    every thirty-two pupils now have one microcomputer, four times as many than there were
(E)    every thirty-two pupils now has one microcomputer, four times as many as
Choices A, B, and C appropriately use the construction "one X for every thirty-two Y's" to describe the ratio of computers to pupils, but only C, the best answer, is error-free. In A, are does not agree with the subject, one microcomputer; furthermore, in A, B, and D, than is used where as is required. Choices D and E reorder and garble the "one X ..." construction, making four times as many refer illogically to pupils.

168. Today, because of improvements in agricultural technology, the same amount of acreage produces double the apples that it has in 1910.
(A)    double the apples that it has
(B)    twice as many apples as it did
(C)    as much as twice the apples it has
(D)    two times as many apples as there were
(E)    a doubling of the apples that it did
Choice B, the best answer, correctly uses the adverbial phrase twice as many... to modify the verb produces; properly employs many rather than much to describe a quantity made up of countable units (apples); and appropriately substitutes did for the understood produced to express the logically necessary past tense of produces. Choice A awkwardly substitutes the adjective double for twice; uses that without a clear referent; and misuses has to refer to events occurring in 1910. Choice C employs the incorrect much in a wordy construction and also misuses has. D is wordy and imprecise;... as there were in 1910 refers to all apples produced in 1910, regardless of location. E is illogical: since that refers to a doubling, E nonsensically asserts that the doubling occurred in 1910.

187. In one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, fought at Sharpsburg, Maryland, on September 17, 1862, four times as many Americans were killed as would later be killed on the beaches of Normandy during D-Day.
(A)    Americans were killed as
(B)    Americans were killed than
(C)    Americans were killed than those who
(D)    more Americans were killed as there
(E)    more Americans were killed as those who
Choice A, the best answer, is the only option that accurately expresses the comparison by using the idiomatic form as many... as. In B and C, as many ... than is unidiomatic, and in C and E, those who is a wordy intrusion. In D and E, more is redundant because the phrase four times as many in the original sentence conveys the idea of more.

倍数+more （adj比较级）... than 的用法：

158. With only 5 percent of the world's population, United States citizens consume 28 percent of its nonrenewable resources, drive more than one-third of its automobiles, and use 21 times more water per capita than Europeans do.
(A)    With
(B)    As
(C)    Being
(D)    Despite having
(E)    Although accounting for
The word or phrase that begins this sentence should establish the contrast between the size of the United States population and the activities of its citizens. Choices D and E are the only ones that establish the contrast, and only E, the best choice, expresses meaning accurately with the phrase Although accounting for. With in choice A and Despite having in choice D confusingly suggest that United States citizens somehow possess, rather than constitute, 5 percent of the world's population. Choices B and C lose the contrast between the opening phrase and the main clause, and As is unidiomatic in B.

199. Because the Earth's crust is more solid there and thus better able to transmit shock waves, an earthquake of a given magnitude typically devastates an area 100 times greater in the eastern United States than it does in the West.
(A)    of a given magnitude typically devastates an area 100 times greater in the eastern United States than it does in the West
(B)    of a given magnitude will typically devastate 100 times the area if it occurs in the eastern United States instead of the West
(C)    will typically devastate 100 times the area in the eastern United States than one of comparable magnitude occurring in the West
(D)    in the eastern United States will typically devastate an area 100 times greater than will a quake of comparable magnitude occurring in the West
(E)    that occurs in the eastern United States will typically devastate 100 times more area than if it occurred with comparable magnitude in the West
At issue is the accurate expression of a complex comparison. Choice D, the best answer, presents the proper form of comparison, will typically devastate an area 100 times greater than will; thus, choice D logically indicates that earthquakes in the eastern United States are 100 times more devastating than are western earthquakes. Choices A, B, and E use it incorrectly to suggest that the same quake strikes both the eastern and the western United States. In choice C, 700 times the area... than is unidiomatic.

251. 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
A, the best choice, uses a singular pronoun, its, to refer to the singular antecedent The gyrfalcon, and it properly uses the construction its numbers are now ... greater than. In B, the construction its numbers are ... more is not idiomatic: there are more birds, but not more numbers. Choices C and D use a plural pronoun, their or they, to refer to a grammatically singular antecedent, The gyrfalcon. Choices D and E wrongly use a phrase introduced by now with to modify The gyrfalcon. In both choices, the phrase confusingly seems to parallel with extinction; a new clause with a present tense verb is needed to state what the gyrfalcon's numbers are now.

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作者: joywzy 时间: 2003-10-26 16:02
这一题可否换个思路来考虑问题?

1.plan做动词时,plan to doing sth. / plan A , 没有用plan on doing sth. 所以C错.

2.as much as / more than 确实不好判断,但各选项提供了其它的线索来判断,可以选出答案.单是这两个的比较,单从意思上,不好比.

3.A中are , 可有可无,有也没错.因为在OG70中,出现多用了is

4.对比较的一点建议:不用去考虑它是否省略.判断正确与否,有个简便的办法:就是一定要出现在more后,出现比较的第二项,否则就是错.

作者: remeo 时间: 2003-10-26 16:25

以下是引用joywzy在2003-10-26 16:02:00的发言：
这一题可否换个思路来考虑问题?

1.plan做动词时,plan to doing sth. / plan A , 没有用plan on doing sth. 所以C错.

这点你可错了。

plan to do sth

Sentences from books, newspapers, etc.

Already his labour force is 30-strong, and he plans to take on five more craftsmen.

Disheartened, Santa Anna separated from his large escort and planned to slip through the mountainous country with three attendants.

I was planning to get faster.

Mr Bernick said he plans to focus on acquisitions as a way to supplement internal growth.

Philips plans to ship players, under both its Philips and subsidiary Magnavox labels, late this year.

The madcap motorists plan to see how many Minis they can squeeze on to a ferry.

The Sister Superior at Bartestree says the nuns were already planning to sell up.

We plan to do this in cooperation with comrades around the world.

plan on doing sth/sth

Sentences from books, newspapers, etc.

For domestic partridge, invariably the choker partridge, plan on a one-pound bird per person.

He'd told us earlier that he was planning on taking a woman to Tramp that night.

If they do come, I plan on keeping as far away as possible.

Is Richard really planning on returning to New York?

Not that I planned on dying.

Otherwise, plan on Cmnamon-Scented 2 quail per person.

Retail and restaurant units are also planned on the pedestrian routes linking Gresham Street and Cheapside.

The large programme is planned on a borough-wide basis, and delivered locally in 11 centres.

作者: joywzy 时间: 2003-10-26 16:44
remeo, plan to do sth./plan sth. 是我敲错了.

可是plan on doing sth.你是哪里查的啊?

我查了oxford 还有金山词霸,都没有这样的用法.

作者: remeo 时间: 2003-10-26 21:51
我查的是LONGMAN2003，好象和GEMJ的一样。
特别全的一个词典，很好用。

作者: joywzy 时间: 2003-10-27 07:40
remeo,能告诉我书的全称吗?我也买一本.我的可能不全.

作者: remeo 时间: 2003-10-30 23:21
NN帮我看看我的那个猜想有道理吗？

作者: remeo 时间: 2003-11-3 23:18
再次请教中。

多谢指点

作者: gemj 时间: 2003-11-3 23:29

以下是引用remeo在2003-10-26 15:35:00的发言：

究竟是用as...as结构还是用more...than结构，好象很难判断。

不过根据我从OG中找到的一些例子：
我发现了这样一个问题，就是当用as...as结构与倍数合用的时候，应该是倍数+as many/much as的结构，表达一种数量上的可能性多少的关系；而如果用more...than结构与倍数合用的时候，倍数+more （adj比较级）... than 的用法，表达某动作，行为，事情发生的可能性多少的关系。当然，这只是我个人的一些猜想，还有待验证。
所以我们判断的依据：
1。究竟是表达一种数量上的比较关系，还是某种动作，行为，事情发生的可能性多少的关系；
2。从倍数+as many/much as和倍数+more （adj比较级）... than 的结构来判断。

我虽然不敢肯定这是正确的，但我觉得你的这个观点很有新意，极富创造力。

作者: john1388 时间: 2003-11-4 04:55
4.According to a survey of graduating medical students conducted by the Association of American Medical Colleges, minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice in socioeconomically deprived areas.
(A) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice
(B) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than other graduates who plan on practicing
(C) minority graduates are nearly four times as likely as other graduates to plan on practicing
(D) it is nearly four times more likely that minority graduates rather than other graduates will plan to practice
(E) it is nearly four times as likely for minority graduates than other graduates to plan to practice

I support A.

Pls substitute " four times as 100%":

(A) minority graduates are nearly 100% more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice

(C) minority graduates are nearly 100% as likely as other graduates to plan on practicing

A is perfect, but C is comfused!

2. "plan to practice" is better than "plan on practicing".

作者: ippohsu 时间: 2004-8-2 16:39

以下是引用john1388在2003-11-4 4:55:00的发言：
4.According to a survey of graduating medical students conducted by the Association of American Medical Colleges, minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice in socioeconomically deprived areas.
(A) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice
(B) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than other graduates who plan on practicing
(C) minority graduates are nearly four times as likely as other graduates to plan on practicing
(D) it is nearly four times more likely that minority graduates rather than other graduates will plan to practice
(E) it is nearly four times as likely for minority graduates than other graduates to plan to practice

I support A.

Pls substitute " four times as 100%":

(A) minority graduates are nearly 100% more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice

(C) minority graduates are nearly 100% as likely as other graduates to plan on practicing

A is perfect, but C is comfused!

2. "plan to practice" is better than "plan on practicing".

看了前面好多人的討論....我想提出ㄧ個看法..請各位nn指教

這題用比較級...是否因為nearly...如同og5

A和B只差在一個原級一個比較級

5. Carbon-14 dating reveals that the megalithic monuments in Brittany are nearly 2,000 years as old as any of their supposed Mediterranean predecessors.

(A) as old as any of their supposed

(B) older than any of their supposed

(D) older than any of their supposedly（B）

(E) as old as their supposedly

作者: hpp920 时间: 2004-10-3 10:01
讨论的很精彩! 牛牛们有结论了吗?

作者: dreamerps 时间: 2005-10-10 08:30
GEMJ说选C就选C吧~

作者: yingmin0601 时间: 2005-10-14 11:28
开始我也是选C，后来用GOOGLE SERCH了一下，有FOUR TIMES MORE 的用法，没有SERCH到 FOUR TIMES AS，另有LIKELY IN SOMETHING，没有 PLAN ON DOING ，so THE CORRECT CHOICE IS A

作者: XUANYA2005 时间: 2005-11-5 13:28

你正是不会省力啊，那个字典来查好了，保证你能找到plan on doing sth, be likely to do sth.

而你那个four times more 和four times as 根本不是一个固定的，也许你可以试试five times as。

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